Jon Jones vacates Light Heavyweight Title

citysushi · Aug 18, 2020

Bones just relinquished his belt. I saw there's a Dominic Reyes and Jan Blachowicz fight almost finalized and it'll probably be for the vacant title.

Has to mean Jones is moving up to Heavyweight right?

Blackshirts BLVD · Aug 18, 2020

Hope so. I have been chomping at the bit to get to see Jones vs Ngannou.

Though I am sure Jones would fight Miocic first.

citysushi · Aug 19, 2020

Ngannou vs. Miocic has to be on deck first. I think they give Jones a warmup fight first at Heavyweight. Show that he can hang.

Blackshirts BLVD · Aug 19, 2020

citysushi said:
Ngannou vs. Miocic has to be on deck first. I think they give Jones a warmup fight first at Heavyweight. Show that he can hang.

Still has to be a name... I don't think it can be Rozenstruik. He may have beaten Junior, but still fresh off Ngannou in my opinion. Maybe Blades, Lewis, or Overeem?

citysushi · Aug 20, 2020

Blackshirts BLVD said:
Still has to be a name... I don't think it can be Rozenstruik. He may have beaten Junior, but still fresh off Ngannou in my opinion. Maybe Blades, Lewis, or Overeem?

Definitely not Blaydes. Lewis and Overeem make sense. Probably Lewis though if I had to pick between the two. Or of course if they book Stipe and Ngannou let's say towards the end of the year/early next year, you could see a Stipe/Ngannou vs. Jones fight for international fight week. That would be massive.

Blackshirts BLVD · Aug 20, 2020

I think Blades/ Jones would be interesting lol. People love to hate both of these guys, but for different reasons. Blades is arguably #2 or 3 and so it serves as a legit title shot for Jones should he beat him.

Being perfectly honest, I think if Jones puts on the weight properly, he will fucking dominate the HW division too.

DJ Fieri · Aug 28, 2020

citysushi said:
Bones just relinquished his belt. I saw there's a Dominic Reyes and Jan Blachowicz fight almost finalized and it'll probably be for the vacant title.

Has to mean Jones is moving up to Heavyweight right?

He should go to Bellator and say fuck you to Dana.

tabascojet · Aug 28, 2020

DJRoxalot said:
He should go to Bellator and say fuck you to Dana.

That's a career decision right up there with moving to montanna....

NinerSpartan · Aug 29, 2020

tabascojet said:
That's a career decision right up there with moving to montanna....

Would have been a dumb career move in 2016. It would be astronomically dumb now. Bellator's numbers are falling. They've been crushed by Spike's rebranding to the Paramount Network.