Jose Aldo may not be in the top spot, but if Saturday is indeed the last chapter we've seen in the former UFC lightweight champion, it's a great choice ever.

Aldo announced his retirement in three rounds against Aiemann Zahabi at the Bell Center in Montreal, Canada. After a comeback in the final minutes, all three judges beat Zahabi's support 29-28 and sent two defeats from Aldo.

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Afterward, Aldo took off his gloves and announced his second retirement from the sport.

“I no longer think I have it,” Aldo (32-10) said through a translator. "It's not just weight loss and everything else. I just feel like a lot of things happening. It's hard to go through all of these things. There was a really tough week this week - I feel like I don't have it, I don't want to cut it, my body isn't cut anymore. My body doesn't say it anymore. Look at me, I just can't do it."

It is worth noting that Aldo cannot perform the lightest limit on Friday, so the turn is converted from the lightest to the lightest event.

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Aldo is already a member of the UFC Hall of Fame and is widely regarded as one of the greatest people - if not, this The greatest - The lightweight tied in a pair of four-ounce gloves. With Saturday's results, his three fights have improved 1-2 in his three games since his brief MMA retirement in 2024.

Aldo, 38, looked like his retro self in the early days of UFC Sendoff. The former Brazilian champion used an evil combination to make Zahabi (13-2) keeping his Canadian counterpart on his back foot for most of the opening rounds, standing in his pocket, and trading the tough shots in a reckless abandon. Aldo also tore the 37-year-old Zahabi off her body early, but as Zahabi settled down and started to drive forward, pursuing her own offense, the pace of the second round slowed down in the second round.

The movements were feverish in the chaotic third round when Aldo exploded the Zahabi with his hard right hand and then reached his knee toward his head and then kicked it, then spilling Zahabi onto the canvas. Aldo pursues the finish line with old-fashioned anger and even kicks Zahabi with a running foot.

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However, Zahabi survived, and immediately even though the tide was against him, he suddenly jumped onto Aldo, who was a bubble and beat him with punches and kicks. After Aldo's failed despair, Zahabi descended the monster's fists and elbows onto Aldo's skull in the round final half, spreading him open, opening his forehead and leaving the UFC Hall of Fame, covering him with his own blood.

Zahabi said after winning. “I did all the work, I accepted the fight. He was overweight and I accepted it anyway.

"Of course, I was shocked. I was a little lost. But my mindset coach told me to prepare for these moments, so I just told myself to recover and win the next exchange, recover and win the next 15 seconds."

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Afterwards, Zahabi summoned Challenger "Chito" Vera, a Challenger for Marlon, for his next round.

Zahabi is the younger brother of head coach Firas Zahabi of Montreal's famous Tristar Gym. Now, he rides back to his six-game winning streak in 2021, including defeats of Pedro Munhoz and Javid Basharat.

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