For a long time, UFC President Dana White firmly asserted that the winner in the heavy match between Stipe Miocic and Francis Ngannou was likely to fight Jon “Bones” Jones when the Light Heavyweight star transferred to heavy. And now with the victory of Francis nunnou, it is likely to match Jon Jones vs. Francis Ngannou will take place in the fall 2021.
“Jon Jones practiced very hard for this moment,” Dana White said on ESPN.
“I can be sure that Jones will watch the heavy belt match between Miocic and nunnou on Saturday night thoroughly. We will soon have an agreement on the match with the winner, and I think the most reasonable is for Jones to fight the new champion this fall.”
Jones (January 26, 10) left the ring for more than a year after defeating Dominick Reyes at UFC 247 in February 2020 to hold the Heavyweight Light belt. After Khabib Nurmagomedov retired, Jones became the top of the UFC P4P Group with Miocic in third place and nunnou (March 15, 11 KOS) ranked 13th.
On Sunday noon on March 28, Francis “The Predator” nunnou defeated Stipe Miocic with Knockooout in the second half. Because of this, the Cameroon boxer will be the opponent of Jon Jones.
Immediately after Francis nunnou won, Jon Jones went to Twitter and declared “the money is up!”.
At first, this statement seems to show that Jon Jones is willing to confront the nunnou if the condition that UFC satisfies his request. However, many viewers think that Jon Jones may find a way to ask for an unbelievable amount of money to have an excuse to flee the opponent.
Not long after posting the tweet, Jon Jones has updated a few other tweets: “If anyone thinks that I want to fight or not, the answer is yes, I want to fight, but I want to be paid.”
“Why do people think a fighter is scared while he just wants to be satisfactory?”