UFC heavyweight champion Jon Jones is fascinated with combating Jamahal Hill.
‘Bones’ is ready to return to the octagon in the principle occasion of UFC 309 on Saturday. In his second battle up at heavyweight, Jon Jones is slated to face 42-year-old former champion Stipe Miocic. For his half, the latter hasn’t competed since a knockout loss to Francis Ngannou in early 2021. Main into the competition, there’s been quite a lot of discuss what’s subsequent.
Given Tom Aspinall’s present standing as interim heavyweight champion, many need to see the winner of Saturday’s headliner face him. Whereas Stipe Miocic has proven curiosity in dealing with the Brit, Jon Jones hasn’t. Actually, ‘Bones’ has gone so far as calling Aspinall an ‘as*gap’, and admitted he has zero intention of ever dealing with him.
As an alternative, it appears the UFC heavyweight champion needs to have “enjoyable fights” as a substitute. At UFC 309 media day, Jon Jones took half in a scrum with the media and mentioned his MMA future. There, ‘Bones’ as soon as once more confirmed curiosity in a future assembly with UFC light-heavyweight titleholder Alex Pereira.
Jon Jones did a scrum with media and emphasised that his precedence going ahead ought to he battle past Saturday is to compete in “enjoyable fights” with athletes who’re roughly his dimension.
He talked about Alex Pereira and Jamahal Hill as names that curiosity him. pic.twitter.com/YeqE5hAOuv
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UFC champion Jon Jones opens up on “enjoyable fights” towards Alex Pereira and Jamahal Hill
Nevertheless, Jon Jones additionally teased a number of different fights. A type of matchups was towards former UFC light-heavyweight champion Jamahal Hill. For his half, ‘Candy Desires’ hasn’t competed since a first-round knockout loss to Alex Pereira in April. Nevertheless, Hill has additionally known as for a battle towards Jones previously.
“I may see myself, I may see myself after this entertaining superfights solely.” Jon Jones said at UFC 309 media day. “After this battle, if we get a dominant efficiency, I’m ready to vacate the heavyweight championship and battle for enjoyable. I need to battle for enjoyable. I’ve had an enormous chip on my shoulder my complete profession, simply defend, defend, defend. I don’t essentially need it to be over, however I need to battle for enjoyable.”
He continued, “…Simply being like, not having this belt to guard however simply combating guys that I need to stylistically battle towards. Simply random fights. Jamahal Hill, me and him meet up at 220 and see what occurs. Let’s see what occurs… Derrick Lewis, he’s obtained quite a lot of knockout energy… I’m at a body weight proper now that I can simply do enjoyable fights. That’s what I need to do.”
What do you make of those feedback from the UFC heavyweight champion? Do you need to see Jon Jones vs. Jamahal Hill?
