Jon Jones isn’t shopping for what Stipe Miocic is promoting as legit coaching footage on Instagram.
Miocic has caught loads of strays in a fan backlash towards Jon Jones, who refuses to unify the UFC heavyweight title towards interim champ Tom Aspinall. As an alternative, Jones insists on combating Miocic in November, barring extra accidents or scandals.
However Stipe Miocic is outdated! He’s gradual! After three years and not using a struggle, he’s barely related any extra! Or so followers say as they push “Bones” to struggle Aspinall as a substitute. And in a brand new video uploaded to his Instagram, Miocic seems to be each bit as unhealthy as social media haters have been saying.
Watch the previous two time heavyweight champion hit the mitts and inform us he seems to be just like the hardest opponent Jones might face!
Jones has watched the video, and he doesn’t see a damaged 41-year-old opponent. As an alternative, he believes the clip is a ruse designed to lull him into complacency.
“I’m not a historian of conflict or something, however I’ve realized a factor or two in my day,” Jones wrote on X (previously Twitter). “An enormous a part of fight technique is timing, and deception. To make a protracted story quick, in case your opponent seems weak, put together even tougher. Complacency is the best enemy to a fighter like myself.”
Complacency is what Jon Jones was combating in direction of the tip of his gentle heavyweight reign. He acquired sick of combating additional down the 205 pound rankings as no nice problem appeared on the horizon. His transfer as much as heavyweight was partially to cement his legacy as GOAT and partially to re-invigorate himself towards worthy opponents.
Because the heavyweight champion with probably the most title defenses, Stipe Miocic represents that. Alex Pereira as effectively, one way or the other. Tom Aspinall? Sadly, not a lot in Jones’ opinion.