Jon Jones’ latest inactivity isn’t doing his pound-for-pound candidacy any favours.
The longtime former UFC mild heavyweight champion has now held the promotion’s heavyweight championship since March 2023, competing simply as soon as since then — a TKO win over Stipe Miocic this previous November in what was simply his second combat since earlier than the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Jones has stood agency, nevertheless, to date showing to withstand strikes to pair him with interim champion Tom Aspinall a lot to the obvious frustration of the Englishman and, apparently, UFC brass.
Dana White advised the media in New Jersey this previous weekend that Jones has certainly ‘agreed’ to combat Aspinall however stopped wanting annoucing a specific timeline for when that combat might (or might not) happen.
However both method, Jones’ standing because the unanimous pound-for-pound king within the sport has dipped in latest months and following Merab Dvalishvili’s conclusive defence of his bantamweight title ultimately weekend’s UFC 316 in New Jersey, arguably the best fighter within the UFC historical past now finds himself within the unfamiliar place of #3 within the P4P ladder.
The (quickly to be ) former light-weight champion Islam Makhachev retains the highest spot in the newest checklist issued this week, with Dvalishvili leaping into second place overtaking Jones and the previous featherweight champion Ilia Topuria, who drops to fourth.
Dricus du Plessis takes the fifth spot, with Magomed Ankalaev, Alex Volkanovski, Jack Della Maddalena, Alex Pereira and Alexandre Pantoja finishing the highest ten.
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Merab Dvalishvili overtakes Jon Jones in UFC P4P rankings
Jon Jones’ recent inactivity isn’t doing his pound-for-pound candidacy any favours. The longtime former UFC light heavyweight champion has now held the promotion’s heavyweight championship since March 2023, competing just once since then — a TKO win over Stipe Miocic this past November in what was just his second fight since before the start of
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