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‘Absolute legend’: MMA community reacts to Jose Aldo’s retirement

“The King of Rio” hung them up and as news broke of this, many fighters, personalities, and media members took a nostalgic journey down memory lane.

A consensus all-time great, Jose Aldo left a lasting impacts on fighters and followers of MMA since he burst into the national spotlight in 2008. Sunday, news surfaced of his retirement.

Read below what the MMA community had to say about the first UFC featherweight champion ever retiring from mixed martial arts.

Lauren Murphy

Billy Quarantillo

Adrian Yanez

Terrance McKinney

Evy Rodrigues

Luke Thomas

Cris Cyborg

Mads Burnell

Gaston Reyno

Amy Kaplan

Nolan King

Matthew Wells

Joe Giannetti

Mike Bohn

John De Jesus

Simon Samano

Megan Olivi

Gilbert Burns

Caposa

MMA Junkie

John Morgan

Coach Sean Madden

Gabriel Miranda

Igor Araujo

Cody Gibson

Carlos Mota

RJ Clifford

Arnold Allen

Henry Cejudo

Cub Swanson

Manny Gamburyan

Ariel Helwani

Lerone Murphy

Max Holloway

UFC

Josh Gross

Alexander Volkanovski

Vince Morales

Brian Kelleher

Matt Brown

Cody Durden

Jared Vanderaa

MacMally

Marc Goddard

Damien Brown

Benito Lopez

Anthony Pettis

Ryan Spann

Petr Yan

B.J. Penn

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