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Featherweight champ Jose Aldo vs. Josh Grispi in the works for UFC 125

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#1 ·
With the WEC featherweight title retired in Thursday's UFC-WEC merger, the UFC's first-ever featherweight championship fight will take place at UFC 125.

Featherweight contender Josh Grispi (14-1 MMA, 4-0 WEC) has been pulled from a planned WEC 52 bout with Erik Koch in favor of a UFC 125 shot at 145-pound champion Jose Aldo.

MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) confirmed with sources close to the event that verbal agreements are in place for the contest, and bout agreements are expected to be finalized shortly.

The change in plans was first reported by Heavy.com.

Featuring a lightweight title fight between current champ Frankie Edgar and top contender Gray Maynard, UFC 125 takes place Jan. 1 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. The main card airs live on pay-per-view.

The 22-year-old Grispi established himself as a top contender with four consecutive wins to open his WEC career – a run that includes a February 2008 win over fellow current contender Mark Hominick.

The Massachusetts resident has since earned victories over Jens Pulver and Micah Miller in a combined 83 seconds and choked L.C. Davis unconscious in June.

Meanwhile, Aldo (18-1 MMA, 8-0 WEC) looks to defend his newly-issued UFC title for the first time after closing out his WEC run with two successful defenses of the belt.

The 24-year-old Brazilian is currently on an 11-fight run and is widely considered among the best pound-for-pound fighters in the world.

It's currently unknown if Koch will still compete at WEC 52, which takes place on Nov. 11 in Las Vegas.

Yes ! the fight i wanted to see . toughest fight for Aldo in the FW division IMHO . Grispi is the real deal i've seen it since i first watched him fight - He got 13 of 14 wins via Stoppage in the FIRST round 6 of them under 1 minute .
And this card is so awesome Can't wait for it .
 
#8 ·
Great fight...bla bla blaaaaaaa...........
BUT ALdo will destroy him also...and then the talk about him moving up to LW will start all over again...just like after him beating Faber...and him beating Gamburyan.

Massive deja-vu!

For me...it's either the UFC will sign the TOP ranked featherweights like: Bibiano, Sandro, Warren...or Aldo needs to move up to LW!

Simple as that!
 
#12 ·
Totally agree. Grispi choked Hominick out in the first round when they fought, and Hominick's last fight was a split decision over Leonard Garcia, a dude who I believe lost to Chan Sung Jung. Grispi is a finisher, and he's unbeaten in the WEC. I think it's an excellent decision to give him the title shot.
 
#14 ·
Hominick dominated Garcia a lot more so than KZ did. They both clearly beat him but Garcia's fights have screwy judging a lot of the time.

People want to see Hominick fight Aldo because he is one of the few guys at 145 who could possibly stand with him. If Faber and Brown can't take down Aldo how is Grispi going to? Both Faber and brown are better strikers and wrestlers than Grispi and they got tooled.

Grispi is going to be a punching bag for Aldo.
 
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