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Rivalries: Jose Aldo

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Jose Aldo for the better part of a decade was the measuring stick by which all other featherweights in World Extreme Cagefighting and the Ultimate Fighting Championship were judged.

The Nova Uniao cornerstone touched down in the WEC in 2008, dummied his first five opponents—this included his remarkable eight-second knockout of Cub Swanson—and laid claim to the promotion’s 145-pound championship a little less than 18 months later when he disposed of Mike Thomas Brown with second-round punches at WEC 44.