UFC president Dana White has lengthy stated that he isn’t going to do any ‘gimmick fights’ – however he is greater than prepared to finalize a showdown between UFC heavyweight champion Jon Jones and WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury.
Final month, Fury and Jones traded phrases on social media.
Jones desires the battle to be within the cage, whereas Fury desires the competition to happen in a boxing ring.
“I see Jon Jones has piped up,” Fury stated on Instagram. “Jon, you speak about being in a cage, I’m not a cage fighter, mate. I’m a boxer. The most effective boxer, truly. So if you wish to come right into a boxing ring and battle me, be my visitor. Let me know. You don’t must name anyone else. No Dana’s, no one. You name me as a result of it’s a boxing battle and I’m the boss on this sport. You’re an excellent fighter, Jon, however you’re no boxer, that’s for certain. All the perfect, good luck.”
Jones reacted to his statements.
“Yesterday, Tyson says, ‘no man born from a mom can beat me,’” Jones wrote on Twitter. “At present he says, ‘Jon can by no means beat me in a boxing ring.’ Yeah I’m glad we received that clarified. You simply switched your beat up quicker than Travis Barker, spectacular.”
White believes a Fury vs. Jones showdown would crown the winner with the bragging rights of being the “baddest man on the planet.”
“I like Tyson Fury; I’ve an excellent relationship with Tyson Fury. However there’s this debate proper now in regards to the baddest man on the planet, proper? Jon Jones is the baddest man on the planet. There’s little doubt about it,” White instructed the media after UFC Vegas 74, in line with MMA Mania.
“If you wish to talk about one other potential baddest man on the planet, it could be Tyson Fury in a boxing [ring], and everyone knows that if Jon Jones packing containers Tyson Fury, Tyson Fury wins. All these boxing guys need to need to speak about this, and so they need to preserve it within the ring.”
Again in 2017, White got here along with Showtime to stage a mega-fight between Floyd Mayweather and UFC famous person Conor McGregor.
The boxing match, which offered a shattering 4.3 million buys on pay-per-view, noticed Mayweather cease McGregor within the tenth spherical.
White is able to make a crossover showdown between Fury and Jones – but it surely needs to be within the cage beneath UFC guidelines, which enormously favors Jones.
In previous interviews, Fury has mentioned the state of affairs of testing the waters in MMA and he was truly performing some coaching.
If he is critical about combating Jones, White signifies that his cellphone line is extensive open and ready for the decision.
“I’m telling Tyson Fury, whom I respect very a lot, in case you actually need to discover out who the baddest man on the planet is, I’ll make that battle. I’ll make Jon Jones vs. Tyson Fury within the octagon. And, you realize, we found out how you can pay Floyd [Mayweather] and work out how you can pay you too Tyson,” White stated.
“So the provide is on the market if you wish to do it within the UFC. I do know he was messing round with MMA for a short while there. Let’s do it. Let’s reply the query. However these guys aren’t boxing him…You need the title of baddest man on the planet? Let’s do it. I’m in…We may all speak about this endlessly. There’s just one method to discover out. Let’s do it. I’m prepared to do it. Tyson can name me himself. He has my quantity.”
