A UFC legend believes former heavyweight champ Brock Lesnar would get the higher hand on Jon Jones in the event that they met in an RAF wrestling match.
Former UFC heavyweight champion Jon Jones stays at odds with the promotional brass over his exclusion from the upcoming White Home card. After last-minute negotiations between Jones and the matchmakers fizzled, Jones publicly requested for his launch and has traded barbs with UFC CEO Dana White.
Jones is taken into account considered one of, if not the best, fighters in UFC historical past. He’s considered one of a number of UFC stars to win titles in a number of divisions.
Lengthy earlier than Jones made the full-time transfer to heavyweight, he was linked to a possible showdown with former UFC heavyweight champ and WWE legend Brock Lesnar. However a battle by no means materialized after Lesnar’s UFC return at UFC 200, and a possible matchup between them within the cage is very unlikely.
There’s nonetheless one other path to a possible Jones vs. Lesnar showdown within the upstart Actual American Freestyle wrestling promotion. If the matchup have been to come back to fruition on the mats, one UFC legend believes Lesnar would get the higher hand.
Kamaru Usman sides with Brock Lesnar over Jon Jones in hypothetical wrestling match
In a latest episode of the Pound 4 Pound podcast, former UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman was requested to foretell a hypothetical Lesnar vs. Jones wrestling match in Actual American Freestyle.
“That is an outrageous query…who would win? Hypthetically, I might say the sheer measurement of Brock Lesnar and the best way he wrestled,” Usman stated of Lesnar vs. Jones.
“Brock Lesnar wasn’t essentially a man ripping pictures on a regular basis, however he may put on guys down…Brock can be a bit extra offensive, and attempting to get a man of that measurement down a number of occasions? I simply don’t see it.
“I feel Brock Lesnar doubtlessly [wins].”
Lesnar gained gold on the 2000 NCAA Division I wrestling nationwide championship on the College of Minnesota. Earlier than transitioning to Combined Martial Arts, Jones was a adorned wrestler, profitable titles at Iowa Central Group Faculty.
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