Former UFC light-heavyweight champion Jon Jones feels he’s past the trash speak at this level.
‘Bones’ has been out of motion since a controversial resolution victory over Dominick Reyes at UFC 247 in February 2020. Following the win, Jones relinquished his light-heavyweight championship. The aim was for the previous titleholder to maneuver to heavyweight, possible for a date with Francis Ngannou.
Whereas that was the plan nicely over two years in the past, loads can change in that point. Jones has cultivated mass for the load change, as he didn’t wish to really feel small as a heavyweight. In the meantime, Ngannou has been embroiled in talks with the UFC, having fought out his contract final 12 months following a win over Ciryl Gane.
Sadly, the 2 sides couldn’t come to an settlement, and ‘The Predator’ was launched from the UFC, and stripped of his heavyweight title final week. Nevertheless, it’s not all unhealthy information, because the championship isn’t anticipated to be vacant for lengthy.
Over the weekend, it was introduced that Jon Jones and Ciryl Gane would face off at UFC 285 in March for the heavyweight championship. Whereas the announcement excited followers, it wasn’t an enormous shock. The combat announcement was beforehand leaked by T-Cellular Enviornment.
Moreover, ‘Bon Gamin’ beforehand known as out the previous light-heavyweight champion for a March date. To his credit score, Jones, who has had many a feud over Twitter up to now, didn’t reply. Because of a current video posted by Henry Cejudo, we all know now why.
In the course of the video, ‘Triple C’ advised Jon Jones not to reply to the trash-talk. As one of many biggest fighters of all time, the latter agreed. He didn’t actually need to reply to Gane, as he believes he’s previous speaking trash at this stage in his profession.
“Allow them to speak, you understand what I’m saying? He is aware of the combat’s gonna occur. Let him ship that tweet,” Cejudo mentioned. (h/t MMA Information)
Jones responded, “Yeah, I didn’t ship sh*t to him. I’m previous the purpose of speaking sh*t.”
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