Despite an interview to the contrary, UFC President Dana White said featherweight champ Jose Aldo (24-1 MMA, 6-0 UFC) wasn’t playing when he shoved Chad Mendes (16-1 MMA, 7-1 UFC) earlier this week at a press conference in Brazil in support of their rematch at UFC 179. “He said he didn’t fake it, (that) the push was real,” White told UFC.com. Aldo reportedly told Brazilian media outlet UOL Esporte that he got physical with Mendes to hype the fight and later regretted it. But White said Aldo’s words mere mixed up when the interview was translated to English. “This has happened before,” White told UFC.com . “Aldo said, ‘That’s not what I said.’ “Every time they say something in Portuguese and it gets translated into English – I got a call that (Renan) Barao had come out and said he wasn’t being paid enough money.
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White says Aldo mistranslated; coach says shove came after Mendes promised beatdown – MMA Junkie