The UFC has reserved argubaly the very best fighter in the world for a quick-turnaround bout, and I will give my thoughts on this new matchup in the present MMA odds and ends.
Jon Jones vs. Anthony Smith UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones will put his belt on the line against Anthony Smith at UFC 235, which takes place March 2 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. TMZ was the first to report about the bout, together with UFC president Dana White affirming the information with them. The holdup now is that Jones still wants to receive his permit from the Nevada State Athletic Commission, which should happen later this month later he has a hearing regarding his contentious failed drug test for picograms before UFC 232.
The news of Jones vs. Smith being reserved for UFC 235 came alongside ESPN’s Ariel Helwani reporting that Kamaru Usman is set to combat UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley in UFC 235 in the co-main event. I wrote about that matchup in a week’s MMA odds and ends, which you can read here. The cole’s notes version of my thoughts on that bout would be that Woodley deserves to be favored based on the fact he’s the defending champion, but that I provide Usman a fantastic chance to win the title.
So far as Jones vs. Smith goes, it’s obviously the ideal fight to reserve and it’s good news the UFC is making this fight rather than Jones contrary to Corey Anderson, which wouldn’t have been a competitive fight. At least Smith gets the finishing capability to make matters interesting, though Jones will still enter this fight as a gigantic betting favorite due to his incredible record and how good he looked in his return bout against Alexander Gustafsson in UFC 232, which he won via third-round KO.
Jones (23-1, 1 NC) has an incredible 17-1, 1 NC album in the Octagon which includes triumph over Daniel Cormier, Gustafsson twice, Lyoto Machida, Rashad Evans, Mauricio”Shogun” Rua, Chael Sonnen and Vitor Belfort. By all reports, he has one of the best resumes we have ever seen in the game and he’s looked pretty much unstoppable in his MMA career save for a very controversial DQ defeat to Matt Hamill almost a decade ago now in December 2009. Smith (31-13) is among the most-improved fighters in the UFC. After racking up a 4-3 document as a middleweight through two separate stints in the UFC, Smith has exploded into stardom as a light heavyweight since moving up a weight class in the center of 2018. He’s defeated Shogun, Evans and in his last conclusion Volkan Oezdemir all by finish, earning a title shot because of his incredible run at 205lbs.
As good as Smith has appeared at light hearted, it’s still impossible to favor him to conquer Jones, who has revealed hardly any flaws in his game since making his UFC debut over a decade ago. I’d look for Jones to be around a -500 favorite for this battle, and contemplating Smith has been finished 14 days in his career there is a fantastic opportunity Jones stops him in this fight.
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