Regardless of all of the hypothesis surrounding his retirement, Jon Jones has made a shock proposal for his potential subsequent battle.
UFC 309 is true across the nook and plenty of consider it might be the final time ‘Bones’ ever steps into the octagon. Stipe Miocic—whose retirement can also be imminent—is taken into account a legacy battle for the heavyweight champion and is seen as the proper 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 which will now not be the case. Although, even with the backlash he has obtained, Jones remains to be uninterested within the Tom Aspinall matchup.
“Effectively, the interim championship should not have been there within the first place,” Jones said. “The one purpose why there was an interim championship battle was as a result of I received damage and so they 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 battle. Only a primary occasion battle.”
“I feel making it an interim battle was untimely. And now you may have a bunch of confused individuals. When you may have a dominant champion that is been round so long as I’ve, there is no such thing as a purpose to place an interim championship belt on the market.”
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In response to the person himself, a BMF title battle in opposition to Alex Pereira may sway him into suspending his retirement.
“It will be cool to battle over the heavyweight championship however I might additionally willingly hand over the heavyweight championship. I walked away from the sunshine heavyweight championship and I would like to stroll away from this one as properly…”
“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 might be each preventing for our third belt, which might be the BMF. How cool would that be?”
Take a look at Jon Jones’ large Alex Pereira proposal under.
Jon Jones clarifies that the heavyweight title wouldn’t essentially need to be at stake if he have been to battle Alex Pereira and he has one other belt in thoughts.
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