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Aldo loves watching Jedrzejczyk, but thinks she'll lose to Gadelha

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Jose Aldo will drop everything to watch Joanna Jedrzejczyk unleash violence.

While the longtime UFC featherweight kingpin doesn't pay attention to too many fighters on the promotion's roster, he'll gladly wake up from a nap to witness the "Polish wood chipper" do her thing.

"I love her," Aldo told reporters recently, according to MMAFighting.com's Guilherme Cruz. "That’s a fight that I stopped to watch, I slept during the others. I asked them to wake me up when it was time for her to fight. I love that girl fighting, man."

Aldo's love for Jedrzejczyk only goes so far, however, as he still thinks Nova Uniao fighter Claudia Gadelha will be the woman to derail the "Joanna Champion" hype train.

"There’s Claudinha, or course, I cheer for her to become champion, but I'm huge fan of (Jedrzejczyk) because of her fighting style, with an excellent kickboxing," Aldo said. "She's growing each and every fight, so that’s someone I stop to watch."

"First of all, train hard, avoid her striking," he said of how Gadelha can topple Jedrzejczyk. "That girl hits like a man, it hurts. And she's fast. She has the same name of my daughter, so she’s a champion, brother."

Gadelha lost a controversial split decision to Jedrzejczyk at UFC on FOX 13, and will likely be the next challenger for the champion's strawweight strap.

"She has to train hard," Aldo said. "I can't talk about it because it's our thing so we have to tell her when she's here, but she knows. She knows, and you know she has to use her grappling because there's where she has a big possibility of becoming champion."

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