Jon Jones is maybe the best blended martial artist on the planet, however Demetrious Johnson thinks he’d be horrible backup in a avenue combat.
Throughout a current look on Johnson’s MightyCast podcast, former UFC gentle heavyweight champion Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson obtained into just a few hypotheticals with the flyweight nice, one in every of them being which MMA fighter you’ll need in your facet in a avenue combat. Understandably, ‘Rampage’ shortly named the 2 pound-for-pound finest fighters on this planet at this time, undisputed heavyweight champion Jon Jones and light-weight titleholder Islam Makhachev.
“If I’m finna go into this dark alley, you know what I’m saying, and they say you can have one person with you to help you fight, I’m gonna say Jon Jones,” Jackson stated. “I’m not gonna say Islam, you know what I’m saying. That’s me, what I think.”
Nevertheless, Johnson was fast to disagree. Significantly with regards to ‘Bones’ whom he steered would most likely activate you and be a part of the opposite facet in stealing all of your stuff.
“I don’t know, man,” Johnson stated. “I think you’re picking the wrong person. I think Jon Jones might rob you and join sides with the other guys.”
After all, Demetrious Johnson’s remark is a transparent reference to the slew of authorized troubles ‘Bones’ has discovered himself in over time, probably the most lately being a scenario the place he allegedly threatened to kill a drug tester who was dispatched to his home to gather a pattern in March 2024.
‘DJ’ Dubs Francis Ngannou, not Jon Jones, the most effective heavyweight in MMA
It’s definitely not the primary time ‘Mighty Mouse’ has thrown some shade at Jones. Shortly after seeing ‘Bones’ dispatch Stipe Miocic at UFC 309, Johnson dubbed Francis Ngannou the most effective heavyweight on this planet, noting that ‘The Predator’ brutally KO’d Miocic years earlier than Jones obtained there.
“I think, right now, Francis Ngannou is probably the best heavyweight in the world,” Johnson informed MMA Combating. “I truly believe that. After seeing what he did to his last opponent [Renan Ferreira], he beat Stipe, [and] knocked him out four years ago.”
