The UFC has reserved argubaly the very best fighter in the world for a quick-turnaround bout, and I will offer my thoughts on this new matchup in today’s 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 record about the bout, together with UFC president Dana White confirming the news together. The holdup now is that Jones still wants to get his license from the Nevada State Athletic Commission, which should happen later this month later he has a hearing regarding his controversial failed drug test for picograms before UFC 232.
The information of Jones vs. Smith being reserved for UFC 235 came along with ESPN’s Ariel Helwani reporting which Kamaru Usman is place to combat UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley at 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 preferred based on the fact he’s the defending champion, but that I give Usman a fantastic chance to win the title.
So far as Jones vs. Smith goes, it’s clearly the ideal fight to book and it’s good news the UFC is making this fight rather than Jones against Corey Anderson, that wouldn’t happen to be a competitive fight. At least Smith has the ending capability to make things interesting, though Jones will still enter this fight as a gigantic betting favorite due to his incredible record and just how great 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 unbelievable 17-1, 1 NC album from the Octagon that includes win over Daniel Cormier, Gustafsson twice, Lyoto Machida, Rashad Evans, Mauricio”Shogun” Rua, Chael Sonnen and Vitor Belfort. By all accounts, he has one of the greatest resumes we have ever seen in the sport and he has looked pretty much unstoppable in his MMA career save to get an extremely controversial DQ defeat to Matt Hamill almost a decade ago currently 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 at the UFC, Smith has burst into stardom as a light heavyweight since moving up a weight class in the middle of 2018. He has defeated Shogun, Evans and in his last conclusion Volkan Oezdemir all by end, earning a title shot because of his unbelievable run at 205lbs.
As great as Smith has appeared at light heavyweight, it’s still impossible to prefer him to conquer Jones, who has shown hardly any flaws in his game since making his UFC debut over a decade ago. I’d search for Jones to be around a -500 favored for this battle, and considering Smith has been completed 14 times in his profession there is a fantastic chance Jones stops him in this battle.
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