Jon Jones might be moving up to heavyweight, but the three-time UFC light heavyweight champion wouldn’t hesitate to fight Israel Adesanya should the opportunity arise.
That’s according to Jone’s striking coach Brandon Gibson, who claims that ‘Bones’ would bust up ‘The Last Stylebender’ worse than he did Brandon Vera in 2010, a reference to Jone’s vicious ground-and-pound assault and TKO victory over Vera that left ‘The Truth’ with multiple fractures to his face.
“I mean, I’d love it,” Gibson told Submission Radio (transcript via Denis Shkuratov). “I’m sure they would sell a lot of pay-per-views.