“Bones” is open to including a unique title to his mantle.
Final Preventing Championship (UFC) Heavyweight champion Jon Jones makes his long-awaited return to lively competitors at UFC 309 this weekend (Sat., Nov. 16, 2024) towards Stipe Miocic from inside probably the most iconic area on the planet, Madison Sq. Backyard in New York Metropolis.
The central speaking level about Jones’s upcoming battle isn’t about Miocic anymore; it’s about what he plans to do after UFC 309. “Bones” maintains that he isn’t preventing present UFC interim Heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall.
In truth, he thinks the interim ought to have been a factor at UFC 295.
“Properly, the interim championship shouldn’t have been there within the first place,” Jones advised TSN. “The one purpose why there was an interim championship battle was as a result of I obtained harm, they usually wanted to maintain the significance of that Madison Sq. Backyard occasion, however Sergei [Pavlovich] and Aspinall shouldn’t have been preventing for an interim title within the first place. They need to have simply been a alternative battle, only a major occasion. I believe making it an interim battle was untimely, and now you could have a bunch of confused folks. When you could have a dominant champion that’s been round so long as I’ve, there was no purpose to place an interim championship belt on the market.”
Final week, Jones teased a battle with present Mild Heavyweight Alex Pereira if he continues to battle previous UFC 309. “Bones” was requested if he’d be prepared to relinquish his championship to take the mega-fight.
“It’d be cool to battle over the heavyweight championship, however I’d additionally willingly quit the Heavyweight championship,” Jones mentioned. “I walked away from the Mild Heavyweight championship I had; I’d like to stroll away from this one as effectively, on prime, on my phrases, good-headed, making numerous cash. I really like the place that I’m in proper now.
“Preventing Pereira for the [Baddest Motherf—ker] BMF belt, that’d be cool. We each have two belts in two weight lessons. And the evening we battle, we’d be each preventing for our third belt, which might be the BMF. How cool would that be? You heard it right here first. I haven’t had this dialog with another reporter,” Jones concluded.
Props to Jones for being prepared to say that he’ll cease holding the Heavyweight division hostage after UFC 309 and letting Aspinall transfer it ahead.
Whereas Jones’ inactivity sort of excludes him from being a BMF these days, he was undoubtedly as soon as one (Dana White thinks he’s the GOAT BMF). However a possible battle with Pereira for the title that Max Holloway at present holds can be cool.
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