White Thinking Aldo and Pettis

UFC President, Dana White has publicly stated that upon a successful title defense against Ricardo Lamas, Jose Aldo will likely be moving up to 155 lbs to challenge Anthony Pettis for the title.  Thomson was originally set to face Anthony Pettis for the title at UFC on Fox 9 before he pulled out due to an injury.  With Thomson losing to Henderson in their five round clash at UFC on Fox 10. With Thomson and TJ Grant out of the running, there is no one else left in the UFC Lightweight Division is in the running for a title. Jose Aldo and Anthony Pettis were originally scheduled to fight for Aldo's Featherweight title at UFC 163 before Anthony Pettis got "injured" only to become healthy enough to return to action a few weeks later at UFC 164 where he earned the Lightweight title from Henderson. After Pettis won the title Aldo still wanted to face Pettis, but it will just be a matter of time before it will happen.

UFC 169: Countdown to UFC 169

UFC 169 to Include the Return of Dominick Cruz

After a few theories of how the UFC's February Pay-Per-View fight card would play out, we finally have some answers.  As rumored before, the UFC's Fetherweight Championship will be on the defended on February 1st by the current title holder Jose Aldo.  Aldo will be defending the title against deserving contender Ricardo Lamas.  The co-main event for the UFC 169 card will feature Dominick Cruz coming back from his injury which took two years out of his fighting career;he will look to unify the UFC's Bantamweight Championship when he takes on Interim UFC Bantamweight Champion Renan Barao.  This is going to be an exciting night of fights for the UFC's lighter divisions and a great way to help bring in the UFC's 2014 cards.

 

Also confirmed on the card will be a heavyweight clash between Alistair Overeem and former UFC Heavyweight Champion Frank Mir.