Alex Pereira solutions Jon Jones’s requires future UFC heavyweight conflict
Throughout a current interview with MMA Junkie‘s Nolan King, Pereira addressed Jones’s callout.
“Yeah, it caught me unexpectedly, particularly after I noticed the primary message. I didn’t actually anticipate to see that this morning,” Pereira mentioned of Jones’s tweets. “I spoke about going as much as heavyweight to struggle on this card. I knew it’d catch some eyes finally. I didn’t anticipate it to be so quick.
“He’s on the sidelines for some time and he desires to do one other struggle earlier than that…I simply wish to struggle. To be desirous about issues and never have them come to fruition could be simply draining for me and for the followers. That’s undoubtedly a struggle I might like to do. For me to maneuver as much as heavyweight, I want a while – however not that a lot time as a result of I’m already an enormous man.”
Pereira was briefly linked to a potential struggle with Aspinall for the interim title. However, the UFC appears to be heading in different instructions for each fighters, and Aspinall remains to be slated to return at UFC 304.
Pereira grew to become the quickest to turn out to be a two-division UFC champion after a fast rise in MMA. The previous Glory Kickboxing titleholder is 3-0 since making the full-time transfer to mild heavyweight.
Very first thing’s first for Jones, who remains to be recovering from an damage he suffered forward of UFC 295. If he will get previous Miocic, a struggle with Pereira may very well be on the desk.