UFC 306 went down on the Sphere on Saturday evening and it was a star-studded affair with loads of fight sports activities legends and celebrities in attendance. Within the entrance row alone we had UFC champions Jon Jones and Alex Pereira sitting subsequent to one another, and the 2 males clearly loved their time hanging out and speaking.
In numerous interviews with media shops, Pereira mentioned his time with Jones and the way the 2 would possibly find yourself coaching collectively for Jon’s UFC 309 scrap with Stipe Miocic on November sixteenth after “Poatan” fights Khalil Rountree Jr. at UFC 307 on October fifth.
“It was superior to fulfill him, he’s a really good man,” Pereira instructed TNT Sports activities by way of his translator. “We talked, we talked about coaching collectively. Folks discuss me combating Jon Jones, going as much as the heavyweight division, however I don’t know if perhaps he have only one struggle left. So for me to fret about my weight class is one thing that’s perhaps an excessive amount of. Proper now, perhaps we’re going to start out coaching collectively.”
“We’ve been speaking slightly bit about coaching collectively for a very long time, however I feel now it’s going to occur,” he instructed Full Ship MMA. “His struggle’s going to be in November. each time you permit a struggle it takes per week or two to get well from small accidents. However I feel I’ll have sufficient time to go over there.”
“As we speak I noticed him more healthy than we final noticed him, he appears actually good and I wish to seize his expertise. Folks discuss us combating, however folks discuss him combating one time, one or twice extra. I don’t know if I’ll be capable of share the cage with him, however I wish to get the expertise of coaching with him.”
This isn’t the primary time Jones retiring after the Stipe struggle has come up — when “Bones” returned to problem for the vacant heavyweight title it was frequent data amongst his coaching companions that he deliberate on successful the belt, defending it towards Stipe — statistically the perfect UFC heavyweight champion ever — after which retiring with that further juice on his legacy.
After sitting out a 12 months with a pectoral damage, is Jones nonetheless sticking to that plan? With a excessive profile struggle in November to hype up, he’s being much more tight lipped about the potential of retirement. However Pereira clearly thinks it’s probably sufficient that he’s not even bothering to hype up a struggle. As an alternative, he’d somewhat practice with the legend whereas he has the prospect, which tells you one thing concerning the sort of fighter he’s.
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