Dice City Sports · Feb 15
Gable Steveson Backs Jon Jones’ Bold Title Timeline: “If It’s Not Next Year, It’ll Be Soon”
© Mark Zaleski / The Tennessean / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn ImagesWhen Jon Jones speaks, people in the MMA world tend to listen. So when the former two-division champion declared that his protege Gable Steveson would become UFC heavyweight champion within a year, it wasn’t dismissed as hype it was taken as prophecy.
Gable Steveson, just two fights into his professional MMA career, agrees with the timeline. “Yeah, I believe it,” Steveson told ESPN MMA. “I believe it because I’ve got full confidence in myself, but with a guy like Jon kind of guiding the way for me, I feel like the confidence just goes through the roof.”