Former two-division UFC champion Jon Jones introduced his retirement from preventing final month. Two weeks later, he re-entered the anti-doping testing pool after President Donald Trump introduced {that a} UFC occasion on the White Home grounds was being deliberate for subsequent yr.
The struggle promotion was working to ebook a title unification bout between Jones and Tom Aspinall, however in the end Jones determined to relinquish the championship and stroll away. Aspinall was elevated from interim titleholder to undisputed champion.
Two-time UFC Heavyweight Match champion and UFC Corridor of Fame inductee Mark Kerr understands the place Jones could also be been mentally when he determined to retire.
“It isn’t about him preventing Aspinall. It isn’t about that. It is about one thing else. As a fighter myself, the second you lose that type of hearth – And it isn’t the fighter to struggle. It is the hearth to coach to struggle. You have to step again as a result of it isn’t the best way you need to go ahead,” Kerr advised The Schmo.
“I’d like to see him struggle once more. Whether or not it occurs or not, he is given me loads of fights of watching enjoyment. Like, watching him do his craft. Unbelievable,” continued Kerr.
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Jones seemingly plans to struggle once more and needs to land on the UFC White Home struggle card. But when Jones by no means fights once more Kerr believes his legacy as the best is etched in stone.
“A part of what’s distinctive about him, he is preventing different expert fighters. When he was at his peak he made the opposite fighters seem like that they had by no means fought earlier than,” Kerr mentioned. “He is simply unimaginable, as a tactician, as an athlete. To look at him is like watching [Mike] Tyson when he was at his peak. You are like, ‘Oh my God, what am I seeing? I’ve by no means seen that earlier than.’ That is what Jon Jones dropped at the desk.”
