Jon Jones is maybe the best combined martial artist on the planet, however Demetrious Johnson thinks he’d be horrible backup in a road struggle.
Throughout a current look on Johnson’s MightyCast podcast, former UFC mild heavyweight champion Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson bought into just a few hypotheticals with the flyweight nice, one in every of them being which MMA fighter you’ll need in your aspect in a road struggle. Understandably, ‘Rampage’ shortly named the 2 pound-for-pound greatest fighters on the earth at the moment, undisputed heavyweight champion Jon Jones and light-weight titleholder Islam Makhachev.
“If I’m finna go into this darkish alley, you already know what I’m saying, and so they say you may have one particular person with you that will help you struggle, I’m gonna say Jon Jones,” Jackson mentioned. “I’m not gonna say Islam, you already know what I’m saying. That’s me, what I believe.”
Nevertheless, Johnson was fast to disagree. Significantly with regards to ‘Bones’ whom he instructed would most likely activate you and be part of the opposite aspect in stealing all of your stuff.
“I don’t know, man,” Johnson mentioned. “I believe you’re selecting the flawed particular person. I believe Jon Jones would possibly rob you and be part of sides with the opposite guys.”
In fact, Demetrious Johnson’s remark is a transparent reference to the slew of authorized troubles ‘Bones’ has discovered himself in through the years, 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, one of the best heavyweight in MMA
It’s actually 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 one of the best heavyweight on the earth, noting that ‘The Predator’ brutally KO’d Miocic years earlier than Jones bought there.
“I believe, proper now, Francis Ngannou might be one of the best heavyweight on the earth,” Johnson instructed MMA Preventing. “I actually imagine that. After seeing what he did to his final opponent [Renan Ferreira], he beat Stipe, [and] knocked him out 4 years in the past.”
