Current WEC featherweight champion, Mike Thomas Brown defends his belt tonight against the Brazilian José Aldo. The Yankee, in an interview with the American website MMA Mania, showed a lot of knowledge of the Brazilian game and preaches a lot of respect.
"He (José Aldo) is actually really good,” Brown said. “He's a black belt in jiu-jitsu, but we saw that he's very quick with his knees and kicks very well”, analyzed the American, who is not afraid of the ground game of José Aldo.
“His good jiu-jitsu doesn't really bother me, I trained with the best guys in the world in jiu-jitsu, so that's not a problem for me”, concluded the ATT athlete