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Former UFC Featherweight Champion Jose Aldo boxes former UFC fighter Jeremy Stephens this Saturday Night at Gamebred Boxing 4.
Aldo says that his team is currently in negotiations to box Floyd Mayweather, with that bout possibly happening in Saudi Arabia.
“Yeah, we’ve been negotiating that fight for a good while,” Aldo told reporters Thursday at the Gamebred Boxing 4 pre-fight news conference (transcript via Danny Segura of MMA Junkie). “Floyd already knows about the fight. I first need to think about my fight this Saturday, and then I can see what’s going to happen. But yeah, we’ve been in negotiations for a long time, and that fight could go down in Saudi Arabia. So yeah, it’s all true. We’re going to do the work on Saturday, and after that we’ll sit down again with everyone to book the fight.”
The former featherweight champion has competed just once before as a pro boxer, while Mayweather has 50 pro boxing fights to his name.
While the Mayweather fight could happen in the future, Aldo is focused on his forthcoming fight with Stephens.
“This is my second fight, and I had already been training boxing for a long time, more or less since I made the drop to bantamweight,” Aldo said. “I’ve had much more emphasis on boxing. So when I stopped my (MMA) career, it’s been almost a year just training boxing. I want to see how far I can go. This is the second fight. I want to defeat Jeremy and then take the next step in my boxing career.”
