A week after Ariel Helwani shared “troubling” photos of Jose Aldo ahead of his bantamweight fight against Marlon Moraes at UFC 245, the former featherweight champ weighed in looking lean and fit. His appearance gave credit to Conor McGregor’s assessment that Aldo was in a good position to drop down a weight class at a time in his career when most fighters are moving up.
Here’s how other MMA figures reacted to the weigh-in results:
Meanwhile Jessica Eye was the only fighter to miss weight, overshooting the flyweight 125 pound limit by 6 pounds. She forfeits 30 percent of her purse, but her fight with Viviane Araujo goes on.
