Whereas many have claimed the likes of present champions, Alex Pereira and Tom Aspinall would show a major risk to heavyweight kingpin, Jon Jones, former titleholder, Stipe Miocic is the most certainly to beat the Rochester native, based on former champion, Randy Couture.
Jones, the present heavyweight champion and a former two-time gentle heavyweight titleholder, is anticipated to make his return to motion in November in the main event of UFC 309 in Madison Square Garden taking up the above-mentioned Miocic in a rescheduled paring.
First set to deal with two misdeameanor charges in relation to an incident with a drug-testing agent earlier this yr in a digital court docket listening to later this month, Jon Jones has been sidelined for over 500 days from the Octagon.
In his final outing, Jones landed the vacant heavyweight crown with a blistering first spherical win over former interim gold holder, Ciryl Gane, ending the Frenchman with an early guillotine choke.
Stipe Miocic tipped as greatest risk to Jon Jones
And linked with enormous championship fights towards interim kingpin, Aspinall in addition to former two-weight champion, Pereira, who presently holds gentle heavyweight spoils, Jones can be doing nicely sufficient alone to beat Miocic in November, based on sport icon, Couture.
“I feel proper now, due to expertise, Stipe’s most likely obtained the perfect shoting at beating Jon,” Randy Couture advised InsideFighting. “Aspinall has that uncooked bodily potential and remains to be inexperienced sufficient and younger sufficient that he’s going to be powerful for Jon to take care of, particularly if Jon waits any longer as a result of he’s getting stronger and stronger every day out.”
“And I feel the longer Jon waits, the higher he’s going to be, he’s going to be in full stride so it’s fascinating,” Couture continued. “Pereira has some issues to show, transferring up is not any straightforward job. It’s one factor to chop weight and transfer down and there’s nonetheless some questions there even, however transferring up and coping with the larger guys, and Jon’s answered that query already coping with the larger guys, it’s a unique factor. …”
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