Supermatcher är något som diskuteras titt som tätt, och även om den idag är något avlägsen så har det pratats om en match mellan föredetta mellanviktsmästaren Anderson Silva och lätt tungviktsmästaren Jon Jones. Nu meddelar dock Jones att han aldrig tänker möta Anderson inne i oktagonen, men att han gärna tar sig an möten i tungviktsdivisionen.
Här kan ni läsa vad Jon hade att säga om en supermatch mot Silva, via ”MMAFighting”:
I would never want to fight Anderson. Never. Ever. I just look up to him so much. And he’s just… I don’t have many people that I’ve looked up to in my lifetime and think, ‘wow, how cool would it be to be that guy.’
Look at what he’s done. Jordan, LeBron, Anderson, Kobe, I consider them all in the same type of class. The Jeters. Athletes of that caliber don’t come around that often. I don’t want to be the guy to beat him. Even though that’s happened already, I wouldn’t want to lose to him and I don’t want to beat him.
Jones meddelade även att han anser lätt tungvikten vara rensad efter att han besegrat Daniel Cormier och vinnaren i mötet mellan Alexander Gustafsson och Anthony Johnson, här kan ni läsa om Jons framtidsplaner:
After those two fights, I would consider the division clear, and that’s when I would start to entertain superfights. Superfights I would go for. I’ve been training with heavyweights for years now. I know what it feels like, and I think I would do really good against them. So that would be the next chapter.
There are definitely a lot of heavyweights that I know I would beat. A lot of heavyweights that could give me a hell of a run or possibly beat me. I keep it real. I’m smaller than these guys.
A guy like Werdum, I would fight him every day, all day. Why? Because he’s not the biggest guy. But the heavyweights I believe would give me the hardest time are the big ones. Not necessarily the better skilled ones — just the bigger ones. You shoot in and they sprawl out on you, that’s going to take a lot of energy to finish that shot, you know what I mean?
Härnäst kommer Jones att kliva in i oktagonen för att ta sig an Cormier, då de möts den 3 januari vid UFC 182 i Las Vegas.
