If Jon Jones wants to multiply his financial blessings, a Francis Ngannou superfight is his only choice, according to ‘The Predator.’
Jon Jones is a man in high demand these days.
After sitting out three years due to a contract dispute with the UFC, Jones returned to action at UFC 28 and became a two-division champion by seizing the vacant heavyweight title. It took him another year and a half to defend the belt, but he just did that successfully too with a one-sided beatdown of Stipe Miocic at UFC 309.
Who Jones will face next, if anyone, is the big question now. UFC CEO Dana White has said if Jones wants to keep fighting, he’ll have to fight interim heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall next. Jones, meanwhile, says he’s ready to drop the belt in order to fight Alex Pereira next. And then there’s Francis Ngannou, the original superfight opponent for Jones that never came together.
Blessings make haters uncomfortable, but they can’t change it.
There’s only one fight, the right fight that will multiply your blessings.#NgannouVSJones https://t.co/7HhNDM4OD6— Francis Ngannou (@francis_ngannou) November 30, 2024
Ngannou just beat Renan Ferreira in the PFL, dispatching his opponent in under a round. Following the PFL’s big 2024 season final, reports came out that the promotion’s Saudi investors are hoping to make a Ngannou vs. Jones cross-promotion happen. And now Ngannou is calling Jones out on social media.
Jones has been pretty occupied lately going back and forth with haters accusing him of ducking Aspinall.
“Crazy how being called a ‘duck’ pays better than most of you Internet tough guys will make in a lifetime,” he wrote in a recent X post. “Two fights in four years and still one of the biggest names in the sport? That’s not ducking, that’s winning. God’s blessings hit different, stay mad.”
“Blessings make haters uncomfortable, but they can’t change it,” Ngannou wrote cryptically. “There’s only one fight, the right fight that will multiply your blessings. #NgannouVSJones.”
Was that first part a dig at Ngannou’s biggest hater, Dana White? The second part was pretty clear though: the big money, the multiples of what he makes in UFC now, the ‘f— you’ multiples, will only come if he fights Francis Ngannou.
Could Jones vs. Ngannou actually happen? Well, all things are possible when crazy Saudi money enters the equation. But as we mentioned earlier, the UFC already has two big money fights lined up for Jones. And Ngannou has one MMA fight left on his PFL contract … if the UFC just waits another year, Jones vs. Ngannou could happen without another promotion being involved at all.
Then again, superfights tend to never happen when one waits for the perfect conditions to put them together. There’s never a better time than right now for Jones vs. Ngannou to get booked. That’s a blessing we doubt we’ll see, though.