Jon Jones has a big fight against Daniel Cormier coming up, but he has his eye on the future as long as he is fortunate enough to win.
If Jones beats Cormier, he would face the winner of Alexander Gustfasson-Anthony Johnson. If Jones wins that fight, he would have cleared out the light heavyweight division (in his words) and he would be prepared to get more creative with his fights. Jones said this week that he would consider superfights, and he would also consider fighting heavyweights. But Jones believes if he moves up to heavyweight, he would have to fight the smaller heavyweights who do not pose as much of a size advantage against him.
“There are definitely a lot of heavyweights that I know I would beat,” Jones said Monday via MMA Fighting. “A lot of heavyweights that could give me a hell of a run or possibly beat me. I keep it real. I’m smaller than these guys. A guy like (Fabricio) Werdum, I would fight him every day, all day. Why? Because he’s not the biggest guy. But the heavyweights I believe would give me the hardest time are the big ones. Not necessarily the better skilled ones — just the bigger ones. You shoot in and they sprawl out on you, that’s going to take a lot of energy to finish that shot, you know what I mean?”
Werdum heard that he was called out by Jones, and he is more than happy to accept the challenge.
“I don’t know why didn’t he said that before I become a champion,” Werdum told Globo. “He said it now but I would fight him for sure without any problem. He has to go up or make it a catchweight bout. But my biggest goal is to fight Cain Velasquez to unify the belts. Dana White even spoke to the media it is going to happen in June. It has even a schedule and he would like this fight to happen in Mexico, so no way we will do it.”
First things first for Werdum: like he said, he is focused on facing Velasquez to win the undisputed heavyweight championship. Velasquez was the previous holder and was set to face Werdum, but Cain had to pull out of their scheduled fight because of a knee injury. Werdum beat Mark Hunt to win the interim belt.
I can tell you this much: I would love to see a Jon Jones-Fabricio Werdum fight. But Jones has to beat Cormier first, and that won’t be too easy.
H/T MMA Mania
