Alex Pereira solutions Jon Jones’s requires future UFC heavyweight conflict
Throughout a current interview with MMA Junkie‘s Nolan King, Pereira addressed Jones’s callout.
“Yeah, it caught me abruptly, particularly after I noticed the primary message. I didn’t actually anticipate to see that this morning,” Pereira mentioned of Jones’s tweets. “I spoke about going as much as heavyweight to combat on this card. I knew it’d catch some eyes ultimately. I didn’t anticipate it to be so quick.
“He’s on the sidelines for some time and he desires to do one other combat earlier than that…I simply need to combat. To be desirous about issues and never have them come to fruition could be simply draining for me and for the followers. That’s positively a combat I’d like to do. For me to maneuver as much as heavyweight, I want a while – however not that a lot time as a result of I’m already a giant man.”
Pereira was briefly linked to a attainable combat with Aspinall for the interim title. However, the UFC appears to be heading in different instructions for each fighters, and Aspinall continues to be slated to return at UFC 304.
Pereira turned the quickest to turn into a two-division UFC champion after a fast rise in MMA. The previous Glory Kickboxing titleholder is 3-0 since making the full-time transfer to gentle heavyweight.
Very first thing’s first for Jones, who continues to be recovering from an harm he suffered forward of UFC 295. If he will get previous Miocic, a combat with Pereira could possibly be on the desk.
