Jon Jones bags on Israel Adesanya following UFC 259 loss
March 7, 2021
Middleweight champion Israel Adesanya attempted to become the promotion’s latest champ-champ when he fought Jan Blachowicz at UFC 259 on Saturday. When he was unsuccessful, former light heavyweight champ Jon Jones ripped on him.
Adesanya moved up to 205 pounds to try and wrest the belt from Blachowicz. He took his fellow champion the distance, but landed on the wrong end of a unanimous decision.
Jones immediately took to Twitter, issuing a series of tweets degrading Adesanya, who is someone that Jones has had a bit of a social media rivalry with that may or may not ever boil over into the Octagon.
Dana White addressed the UFC 259 fights, ripped on the judges for their scoring, said what could be next for all of the championship bout winners, and more.
Saturday’s championship heavy fight card is set now that the UFC 259 weigh-in results are official.
All three title fights got the green light on Friday with all six athletes in the championship bouts stepping on the scale within the first 25 minutes of the two-hour weigh-in window.
While UFC light heavyweight champion Jan Blachowicz weighed in at 205 pounds on the nose, the top end of the limit, his opponent took a remarkedly different approach.
When most fighters get as big as possible and then have a drastic weight cut during fight week, middleweight champ Israel Adesanya didn’t follow the norm. He stepped on the scale at 200.5 pounds, pizza box in hand, in his quest to become a two-division champion.
Bellator featherweight and lightweight champion Patricio Pitbull Friere and his coach “Captain” Eric Albarracin joined MMAWeekly’s Jim “Gries” Grieshaber for an exclusive interview recently in Scottsdale, Ariz., while training at Fight Ready MMA, home of Olympic Gold Medalist and two-division UFC Champ “Triple C” Henry Cejudo.
Pitbull and Captain Eric told Gries about the Bellator Double-Champ’s million-dollar challenge to Dana White to fight and beat any UFC fighter, called out Conor McGregor, and explained why Michael Chandler will be the UFC lightweight champ. Patricio also discussed how he feels headlining Bellator’s first event on its new home on the Showtime Network and more.
Despite the award, Cruz later said, “I’m not gonna lie. I’m scared of USADA.”
Cruz is slated to fight Casey Kenney on the UFC 259 prelims on Saturday in Las Vegas.