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Jon Jones: ”Det blir sannolikt match mot Gustafsson – det blir om bältet”

Den svenska #1 rankade lätta-tungviktaren Alexander Gustafsson har en längre tid kampanjat för en match mot den forne lätta-tungviktsmästaren, Jon Jones. Jones som fått sin avstängning av USADA, fick ett retroaktivt straff på 15 månader och kan fightas så snart som i slutet av oktober. Tidigare har det diskuterats om att Jones vs. Alex skulle stå som huvudmatch på UFC 230. De ryktena slår dock UFCs VD Dana White ned på.

I en intervju med ESPN säger Jones att det sannolikt blir en match mot svensken, men att han inte skrivit på något kontrakt ännu.

As of right now, that’s something that is on the table and we are in talks, but it looks like I will be. Nothing is signed on my end yet. That would be for the light heavyweight championship.

Vidare diskuterade Jones om ett tredje möte med sin ärkerival Daniel Cormier. I intervjun säger han dock att han inte är intresserad av varken en returmatch eller en fight om tungviktsbältet.

No, I don’t. I already have all the marbles when it comes to Daniel Cormier. I’ve beaten him twice. This game has never been personal. What is personal to me is chasing greatness, not individuals. So in the case of myself and Daniel Cormier, he needs to fight myself one more time if he ever wants to be considered one of the all-time greats. I don’t need to fight him again to be considered one of the all-time greats. I have many more years to prove it.

I was legitimately happy for Daniel Cormier. I felt like he was extremely deserving of becoming a UFC champion. I felt like for the first time, the night he won, he became an actual UFC champion. I think he was an extremely successful light heavyweight, but I don’t ever think he was the light heavyweight champion. I consider myself the light heavyweight champion since 2011, despite what happened. He joined a club of champions, and I was legitimately happy for him because from afar I know how hard of a worker he is, and I think the heavyweight championship couldn’t be in more deserving hands.

Not really. Challenging Daniel Cormier for the heavyweight championship would be me making it personal, and it’s not personal. I’m not the one who went home crying the first and second times we fought. That was him. There’s nothing inside of me that wants to take things from him or make his life harder in any way. I just want what’s rightfully mine. He can have what’s rightfully his and we can all get along.

UFC 232 äger rum den 29:e december på T-Mobile Arena i Las Vegas. Nedan kan ni ta del av det rådande matchkortet för galan.

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