Big news came out on Tuesday that Jose Aldo has suffered a rib injury while training and that his UFC 189 main event bout against Conor McGregor was in jeopardy.

At the moment, Aldo’s camp are waiting for test results and will make a decision on Wednesday. It doesn’t look good thaough as Aldo is in extreme pain and his coach Andre Pederneiras has talked about moving the fight back to October.

Sources within Jose Aldo’s training camp contacted BJJEE.com and informed us about how the injury happened and who was involved:

There are like 30 sparring spartners for Aldo there, all great guys, except for like 3 or 4 who basically are low level strikers.

Aldo injured his rib while sparring with undefeated Brazilian lightweight Alcides Nunes, who landed a kick to Jose’s midsection.

Dutch Kickboxing champ Andy Souwer was brought in from Holland to train with Aldo but barely had any chance to help out before the injury occurred.

It happened the round after Andy Souwer sparred with Aldo, against Nunes. Aldo was trying to put Nunes off balance in a clinching situation, turning/sweeping him and after that it looked like he didn’t want to go on anymore, he looked tired and it went on for a minute until the round ended, and he went to sit on one of the bags and they got water and stuff and he said something was wrong with him.

His coach, Andre Pederneiras, does not want the fight to continue but as far as I know they’re still debating.

 

Andy Souwer. Photo: Susumu Nagao

Pederneiras also spoke to combate about how Aldo has been dealing with the injury.

“He cried. He wants this fight bad, everybody invested a lot in this,” he said. “I was with him the whole afternoon. He’s heartbroken. He wants to fight anyway. Now we have to wait for the exam results. Aldo is in deep pain.”ao