UFC CEO Dana White praised UFC heavyweight champion Jon Jones because the pound-for-pound finest fighter on the planet, in any fight sport, on Saturday evening.
Following UFC light-weight champion Islam Makhachev’s submission victory over Dustin Poirier within the UFC 302 important occasion in Newark, New Jersey, White dismissed the highest 155-pounder because the pound-for-pound finest. As a substitute, White reserved that standing for Jones.
“I believe he’s one of many best of all-time,” White stated of Makhachev on the UFC 302 post-fight press convention. “I believe he’s unimaginable. I don’t suppose he’s the pound-for-pound finest fighter on the planet. For anybody to name Islam the pound-for-pound finest fighter on the planet when Jon Jones continues to be f*cking preventing is nuts and shouldn’t be rating within the pound-for-pound, or doing any of the f*cking rankings ever if that’s what you actually suppose.
“Jon Jones has by no means misplaced a combat, ever. He’s fought all of the baddest dudes on the planet, after which when you concentrate on what pound-for-pound rankings actually imply — he moved as much as heavyweight and destroyed the most effective man on the planet. So long as Jon Jones continues to be preventing, lively and within the rankings, no one [else] is pound-for-pound the most effective fighter on the planet.”
The famed UFC frontman continues to stroke Jones’ ego with additional dialogue on the subject.
“Let’s speak about exercise,” White stated. “Three years off — no one, not even [Muhammad] Ali, no one’s ever come from three years off and seemed the identical. Jon Jones walked by means of the No. 1 man within the heavyweight division prefer it was nothing with three years off.
“Jon Jones is the most effective ever. Ever. And after I say ever, I imply in any fight sport. He’s the most effective ever. You throw Jon Jones in a room with anyone, Jon Jones walks out of the room.”
The dialog didn’t cease there as White continued to reward Jones, whose solely loss was a disqualification to Matt Hamill for unlawful strikes.
“When you concentrate on what pound-for-pound actually means, [Makhachev] fought [Alexander] Volkanovski, who’s a weight class decrease than him,” White defined. “Jon Jones beat everyone at gentle heavyweight then beat the most effective heavyweight within the division prefer it was nothing at a better weight class.
“Jon Jones is totally, positively the pound-for-pound finest fighter on the planet and doubtless the best fighter of all-time in any sport,” White stated. “Once you speak about who’s the baddest dude on the planet, you place two guys in a row and who walks out? Jon Jones walks out of the f*cking room each time. No query about it.”