Photo gallery: Champ Jose Aldo the star of today's UFC 142 open workouts in Rio

RIO DE JANEIRO - On Tuesday night, the beaches of Barra da Tijuca in Rio de Janeiro were pelted with a pouring rain, even as workers diligently constructed the setting for the week's UFC 142 open-workout event.

But on Wednesday, the clouds parted - and the crowd gathered.

Today, while the afternoon started out as a scaled-down version of this past August's UFC 134 gathering in Rio, things changed when budding Brazilian superstar Jose Aldo took to the mats.

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