Aleksandar Rakic believes Jon Jones deserves the money he demands
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Many UFC stars have sided with Jon Jones who is on a war with UFC management and Dana White to get a better payday for the biggest fight of his career against new heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou.
Now light-heavyweight prospect Aleksandar Rakic has spoken out too, he believes Jon Jones has done everything and deserves to be paid.
In a recent interview with MMA Fighting, he said, “Jon did everything. Everything he did in the octagon, defend the title 13 times in the light heavyweight when nobody did this in the light heavyweight, man. He’s unbeaten. I understand him completely.”
“If I look back if Conor McGregor can get like more money or Khabib [Nurmagomedov] can get more money, why he cannot get more money? It’s a different weight class, it’s the heavyweight division, it’s not the light heavyweight division, and he’s fighting Francis, a scary guy. Of course, I would ask the same, you know, and I understand him completely.”
“Jon is a very smart fighter and his fight IQ is very good,” Rakic said. “He’s gonna probably study Francis for a long time now and when the fight happens, you’re gonna see Jon use everything, every weakness that Francis has, Jones is gonna do it. I don’t know how he gonna feel in the heavyweight division, I saw he put some weight on, he’s like 114kg.”
“You need to move [at] this weight, you know, and if you never fought this it needs time to get used to this weight, to move with this weight, to spar with, to hit mitts, and to have that conditioning for five rounds.”
Aleksandar Rakic believes both Jones and Ngannou have 50-50 chance in their fight
When asked about the super fight between Jon Jones and Francis Ngannou, he said, “I think this match-up would be very interesting because Francis is a monster, he’s a champion, and he knocked out Stipe. It’s a crazy power that this man has, and, in the other way, Jon is a very smart fighter, so it’s gonna be very interesting.”
“I think if the fight goes to distance, I see Jon winning that fight, but, like we saw last weekend, one jab or one left hand from Francis and the lights are out. I see this fight like 50-50.”
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