Regardless of all of the hypothesis surrounding his retirement, Jon Jones has made a shock proposal for his potential subsequent struggle.
UFC 309 is correct across the nook and plenty of imagine it may very well be the final time ‘Bones’ ever steps into the octagon. Stipe Miocic—whose retirement can be imminent—is taken into account a legacy struggle for the heavyweight champion and is seen as the right manner for Jones to bow out of the game.
Jon Jones appeared all however set to put down the gloves win, lose, or draw on November 16, however that will now not be the case. Although, even with the backlash he has acquired, Jones remains to be uninterested within the Tom Aspinall matchup.
“Properly, the interim championship should not have been there within the first place,” Jones acknowledged. “The one motive why there was an interim championship struggle was as a result of I obtained harm they usually wanted to maintain the significance of that Madison Sq. Backyard occasion.”
“Sergei [Pavlovich] and [Tom] Aspinall should not have been preventing for an interim title within the first place. They need to have simply been a substitute struggle. Only a essential occasion struggle.”
“I feel making it an interim struggle was untimely. And now you’ve gotten a bunch of confused individuals. When you’ve gotten a dominant champion that is been round so long as I’ve, there is no such thing as a motive to place an interim championship belt on the market.”
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In keeping with the person himself, a BMF title struggle in opposition to Alex Pereira may sway him into suspending his retirement.
“It will be cool to struggle over the heavyweight championship however I’d additionally willingly surrender the heavyweight championship. I walked away from the sunshine heavyweight championship and I might like to stroll away from this one as effectively…”
“Combating Pereira for the BMF belt, that might be cool. We each have two belts in two weight lessons and the evening we fought we’d be each preventing for our third belt, which might be the BMF. How cool would that be?”
Try Jon Jones’ big Alex Pereira proposal beneath.
Jon Jones clarifies that the heavyweight title wouldn’t essentially should be at stake if he had been to struggle Alex Pereira and he has one other belt in thoughts.Full interview with the 🐐 coming quickly… pic.twitter.com/R43YlfB9Ze
— Aaron Bronsteter (@aaronbronsteter) November 11, 2024
