UFC 306 went down on the Sphere on Saturday night time 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 varied interviews with media retailers, 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 satisfy him, he’s a really good man,” Pereira informed TNT Sports activities by means of his translator. “We talked, we talked about coaching collectively. Folks discuss me preventing Jon Jones, going as much as the heavyweight division, however I don’t know if possibly he have only one combat left. So for me to fret about my weight class is one thing that’s possibly an excessive amount of. Proper now, possibly we’re going to begin coaching collectively.”
“We’ve been speaking just a little bit about coaching collectively for a very long time, however I believe now it’s going to occur,” he informed Full Ship MMA. “His combat’s going to be in November. each time you allow a combat it takes per week or two to recuperate from small accidents. However I believe I’ll have sufficient time to go over there.”
“In the present day I noticed him healthier than we final noticed him, he appears to be like actually good and I wish to seize his expertise. Folks discuss us preventing, however individuals discuss him preventing one time, one or twice extra. I don’t know if I’ll have the ability to 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 combat has come up — when “Bones” returned to problem for the vacant heavyweight title it was frequent information amongst his coaching companions that he deliberate on profitable the belt, defending it in opposition to Stipe — statistically one of the best UFC heavyweight champion ever — after which retiring with that further juice on his legacy.
After sitting out a yr with a pectoral damage, is Jones nonetheless sticking to that plan? With a excessive profile combat 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 combat. As an alternative, he’d somewhat practice with the legend whereas he has the possibility, which tells you one thing in regards to the type of fighter he’s.
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