Whereas many have claimed the likes of present champions, Alex Pereira and Tom Aspinall would show a big menace to heavyweight kingpin, Jon Jones, former titleholder, Stipe Miocic is the almost certainly to beat the Rochester native, in keeping with former champion, Randy Couture.
Jones, the present heavyweight champion and a former two-time gentle heavyweight titleholder, is predicted to make his return to motion in November in the principle occasion of UFC 309 in Madison Sq. Backyard taking up the above-mentioned Miocic in a rescheduled paring.
First set to cope with two misdeameanor costs in relation to an incident with a drug-testing agent earlier this yr in a digital court docket listening to later this month, Jon Jones has been sidelined for over 500 days from the Octagon.
In his final outing, Jones landed the vacant heavyweight crown with a blistering first spherical win over former interim gold holder, Ciryl Gane, ending the Frenchman with an early guillotine choke.
Stipe Miocic tipped as largest menace to Jon Jones
And linked with large championship fights in opposition to interim kingpin, Aspinall in addition to former two-weight champion, Pereira, who presently holds gentle heavyweight spoils, Jones could be doing effectively sufficient alone to beat Miocic in November, in keeping with sport icon, Couture.
“I feel proper now, due to expertise, Stipe’s in all probability acquired the perfect shoting at beating Jon,” Randy Couture informed InsideFighting. “Aspinall has that uncooked bodily capability and remains to be inexperienced sufficient and younger sufficient that he’s going to be powerful for Jon to cope with, particularly if Jon waits any longer as a result of he’s getting stronger and stronger every outing.”
“And I feel the longer Jon waits, the higher he’s going to be, he’s going to be in full stride so it’s attention-grabbing,” Couture continued. “Pereira has some issues to show, transferring up is not any straightforward activity. It’s one factor to chop weight and transfer down and there’s nonetheless some questions there even, however transferring up and coping with the larger guys, and Jon’s answered that query already coping with the larger guys, it’s a distinct factor. …”
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