UFC 135 goes down on Saturday at the Pepsi Center in Denver, CO, and it will feature a light heavyweight title bout between champion Jon Jones and former champion Quinton “Rampage” Jackson.
Both fighters made an appearance side by side on Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show on Monday evening.
“Once you talk to him, you’ll se how cocky he is,” Jackson responded to Kimmel asking them if they liked each other. “I would say it’s a thin line between being cocky and confident. When you reach a certain level then, OK, I see people being cocky now, I won’t say nothing, but this kid ain’t really fought nobody and he didn’t even defend his belt yet and he’s already talking down to me and stuff like that and just being cocky.”
Jones will be defending his title for the first time since he defeated Mauricio “Shogun” Rua at UFC 128. He knocked out the Brazilian Muay Thai expert in the third round.
Rampage recently defeated Matt Hamill at UFC 130 but left fans asking for more with a recent string of decision victories. He has gone the distance in six of his last seven fights.
In the co-main event, former UFC welterweight champion Matt Hughes will take on Josh Koscheck, who accepted the fight on late notice after Diego Sanchez was injured.
Other main-card bouts include Travis Browne vs. Rob Broughton, Takanori Gomi vs. Nate Diaz and Mark Hunt vs. Ben Rothwell.
It all goes down on PPV this Saturday at 9 p.m. ET. Preliminary bouts will be available on Facebook and Spike TV.
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