Jon Jones has no qualms about vacating the undisputed heavyweight title — particularly if it will get him nearer to a BMF combat with reigning 205-pound king Alex Pereira.
UFC 309 will see ‘Bones’ put his heavyweight title on the road for the primary time since scoring a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it submission victory over Ciryl Gane 20 months in the past. This time round, Jones will try and each hold his belt and add to his already plain legacy when he meets the one two-time titleholder in heavyweight historical past, Stipe Miocic.
Because it stands, Jones’ victory over Miocic virtually looks like a foregone conclusion with sportsbooks like DraftKings having ‘Bones’ favored by a greater-than 6-to-1 margin. And it looks as if everybody — ‘Bones’ included — is much extra keen on what comes after his combat with Miocic as a substitute of what is going to occur throughout it.
Just lately, Jones pissed off some combat followers by prompt that win or lose, he by no means intends on doing the precise factor and unifying his title with that of interim heavyweight titleholder Tom Aspinall.
Jon Jones thinks a combat with ‘Poatan’ makes rather more sense
Jones seemingly doubled down on that assertion by suggesting that he’d gladly vacate the heavyweight title for a combat with ‘Poatan’ earlier than ever contemplating a scrap with Aspinall.
“It’d be cool to combat [Pereira] over the heavyweight championship, however I’d additionally willingly surrender the heavyweight championship,” Jones instructed SportsNet on Monday. “I walked away from the sunshine heavyweight championship, and I’d like to stroll away from this one as nicely on high, on [my] personal phrases, good head in your shoulders, making numerous cash. I really like the place that I’m in proper now.
“Combating Pereira for the ‘BMF’ [baddest motherf*cker] belt, that might be cool. We each have two belts in two weight courses, and the night time we fought, we’d each be preventing for our third belt – which might be the ‘BMF.’ How cool would that be?” (h/t The Independant).
There’s little question that Jones vs. Pereira is an thrilling thought and maybe the largest attainable combat the UFC might make with Conor McGregor’s return to the Octagon wanting much less doubtless with every passing day. However is it the precise factor to do?
Extra importantly, the place does that depart Tom Aspinall?
