Jon Jones is the ultimate showman.
Just as if he couldn’t do any more to impress UFC fans, Jon Jones sent us all into a frenzy.
The 30-year-old regained his light heavyweight title in the early hours of Sunday morning through ways of a spectacular knockout and wasted no time calling out the next person he wants to fight.
There had been rumblings that Brock Lesnar would return to the octagon after Jones said on Facebook Live that he would love to face him.
Well, the 30-year-old decided to officially call out the WWE fighter, saying:
“Brock Lesnar, if you want to know what it feels like to get your ass kicked by a guy who weighs 40 pounds less than you meet me in the octagon.”
"Brock Lesnar… Meet me in the Octagon!" 🎤@JonnyBones 👊@BrockLesnar 💪
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Speaking at a press conference after his fight, Jones spoke about why he decided to call out Brock Lesnar.
“To be honest with you, I have no clue where this Brock Lesnar situation came from, how it started.
“It got serious really quick and I started talking to my management team, firstly my management and my team.
“And I said ‘Well, what do you guys think if this was to happen?’ and obviously my manager was like ‘It’s going to be a big pay day’
“That’s his job, right? To make me money.
“My teammates…said ‘Jon, you can win that fight, you’re going to have to dig deep, you’re going to have to take your self-belief to a higher level, you’re going to have to have to earn this fight. Obviously, you’re going to have to change a lot fighting at 225 or 230 (lbs), you can do this’
“And, so, we made up our mind that we were serious about it and it’d be great for the MMA world. It would definitely bring more of the general public to the sport of mixed martial arts and that’s what we need, we need to expand our sport and why not be the guy to play a part in that.”
