The official UFC rankings panelists proceed to do themselves no favors by any means with Dana White.
UFC 309 noticed the return of heavyweight champion Jon Jones, who efficiently returned from a 20-month layoff to defend his title with a third-round TKO of Stipe Miocic, who was coming off a fair longer layoff of greater than three-and-a-half years. The combat headlined the pay-per-view occasion at Madison Sq. Backyard in New York.
For months, White has repeatedly fussed about Jones not being No. 1 within the official UFC pound-for-pound rankings, the place he sat at No. 3 behind mild heavyweight champ Alex Pereira and light-weight champ Islam Makhachev previous to UFC 309. Popping out of the occasion, Jones has jumped up one spot to leapfrog Pereira for the second spot, however he stays behind top-ranked Makhachev.
Unsurprisingly, White is perturbed by Jones nonetheless not claiming the highest spot and made that clear Monday evening on his Instagram Tales.
“I’ve to do away with these CLOWNS!!” White wrote. “(Mark Zuckerberg), let’s get this AI deal accomplished ASAP!!!!!”
White should’ve believed Jones’ simple win over Miocic would persuade the UFC rankings panel to put him No. 1, however that’s not the case.
Final month, White stated he was open to the UFC rankings being compiled, partly, by AI and consulted Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who’s a giant UFC fan.
“I might go on and on and on, however I gained’t,” White stated. “We actually had conferences this week to work on it. I really talked to Mark Zuckerberg, too, about AI, so yeah, I’m completely going to repair the rankings. We’re going to make a whole lot of robust strikes right here coming into 2025.”
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