“BUST him up” – Coach Brandon Gibson loves the idea of Jon Jones fighting rival Israel Adesanya
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Jon Jones and Israel Adesanya
Although, the UFC’s G.O.A.T according to the UFC president, Jon Jones hasn’t competed in the promotion since his last fight in 2020. After the battle at UFC 247, he took some time off to bulk up to Heavyweight to fight new contenders and possibly claim the title. However, his coach is sure that he’d still take the opportunity to fight UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya.
The feud between Jones and the Middleweight champion Israel Adesanya isn’t something new. Both fighters do not like each other a single bit. They’ve been throwing comments at each other for a very long time. This has also made many fans speculate about a potential fight between the two.
After ruling the UFC’s light heavyweight division for a decade, Jones chose to vacate his title and look for a new challenge. Since, August 2020, the American has been gearing up for his heavyweight debut. Recently in an interview, his longtime striking coach Gibson gave an update about Jones’ transformation.
Although after a failed attempt at 205lbs, Adesanya has gone back to Middleweight to continue his reign as champion. Jones’ coach Brandon Gibson believes the former three-time UFC champion would be enthusiastic about a fight with Adesanya sometime in the future.
Coach Gibson believes Jon Jones can easily dominate Israel Adesanya on the feet
In an interview with Submission Radio earlier this week, Jones long time striking coach, Brandon Gibson shared the former champion’s heavyweight debut, the criticisms of Jon’s pad work, the Stipe Miocic fight that fell through at UFC 281, whether Miocic or Francis Ngannou are the tougher fights, and if the Israel Adesanya fight will ever happen.
When asked if he thinks that the fight between the two champions will ever go down as a legacy perspective. Gibson responded, “I mean, I’d love it, I’m sure they would sell a lot of pay-per-views. That would be a fun one for ‘Bones.’ I know he’d love to make that a dirty fight and bust him up worse than he did Brandon Vera. So yeah, I would love to see that fight one day.”
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Gibson further praised Adesanya’s style of fighting stating, “He’s also brilliant when it comes to this game, His ability to judge speed and time and range and angles and level changes is very unique. He’s already become a dominant champ at middleweight. I think he has some of the best feints in the game. He’s so good at using his feints to create the openings and in that split second, depending on the opponent’s reaction to that feint, identifying the opening and taking it. Just ultra sharp. Ultra-sharp defence.”
“He doesn’t have any big, drastic movements. It’s not like that Dominick Cruz style that we saw, he pretty much over-dips, over-slips. Israel is just pinpoint making guys miss by a millimetre. So that’s something I really admire in his style and in his game and there’s elements of it that have definitely inspired me to try to put little sprinkles of that with my own fighters.” He added.
He went on to elaborate on the question if Jones would be able to beat Adesanya on the feet by stating, “Yeah, absolutely, Jon’s gone toe-to-toe with some of the best strikers in the game’s history. Guys like [Lyoto] Machida and [Quinton] ‘Rampage’ [Jackson] and [Mauricio] ‘Shogun’ [Rua] and Alexander Gustafsson. Jon can hang with any of these guys.”
Coach Gibson concluded by remarking, “Jon, with the power and the skill set that he’s really developed over the last two years, I think he’s going to surprise a lot of opponents, a lot of opponents’ teams, and a lot of fans when he gets in there and gets to showcase his new skill set.”
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