Jon Jones has been firing out tweets at will over the previous couple of days, and one in every of them expressed curiosity in an extended talked about matchup with former UFC heavyweight champ, and present PFL SuperFight titleholder Francis Ngannou,
Ngannou’s head coach Eric Nicksick lately mentioned that he believes Ngannou would ‘100%’ entertain a return to the UFC sooner or later. After feeling mistreated and undervalued by the UFC as heavyweight champ, Ngannou vacated the belt and made the selection to signal with PFL as a fighter, in addition to an envoy for the PFL Africa. Jones went on to win the UFC title, whereas Ngannou has made hundreds of thousands of {dollars} competing within the boxing ring, in addition to the PFL cage.
On Friday, Jones tweeted how a matchup with Ngannou would hearth him as much as compete once more — in contrast to a bout towards interim champ Tom Aspinall. Lower than 24 hours later, Ngannou responded.
“You handle the UFC, I’ll handle the PFL, and we’ll lastly discover out who’s the KING OF THE HEAVYWEIGHT,” Ngannou wrote on Twitter.
Jones and Ngannou requested for the matchup to be made a number of occasions after the previous made the choice to vacate the UFC mild heavyweight title in a transfer to heavyweight. The bout by no means materialized, as UFC CEO Dana White mentioned Jones needed “Deontay Wilder cash” to ensure that the battle to happen.
Subsequently, White has mentioned on a number of events that he has no real interest in working with Ngannou once more, whereas PFL founder Donn Davis has mentioned that he’d like to make the battle between Jones and Ngannou occur in a co-promotion with the UFC.
Jones lately defended his title for the primary time towards Stipe Miocic at UFC 309 this previous November, whereas Ngannou competed a month prior in his PFL debut, destroying Renan Ferreira with a first-round TKO win.
