{"id":228664,"date":"2017-03-18T20:48:07","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T03:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=228664"},"modified":"2017-04-14T13:45:06","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T20:45:06","slug":"jimi-manuwa-not-interested-fight-jon-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/jimi-manuwa\/jimi-manuwa-not-interested-fight-jon-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimi Manuwa is not interested in a fight with Jon Jones right now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC light heavyweight contender Jimi Manuwa is not interested in booking a fight with former division kingpin Jon Jones, at least not yet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Poster Boy&#8221; scored another highlight reel knockout in the featured bout of last night&#8217;s UFC Fight Night 107 event in London sending his opponent Corey Anderson crashing to the canvas with a brutal left hand in the opening round.<\/p>\n<p>Following <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/corey-anderson\/ufc-fight-night-107-results-jimi-manuwa-vs-corey-anderson\/\">his sensational knockout victory over Anderson<\/a>, Manuwa spoke to reporters at the post-fight press conference where he was asked to share his thoughts on a potential fight with former light heavyweight champion Jon &#8220;Bones&#8221; Jones (as transcribed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2017\/3\/18\/14970372\/jimi-manuwa-not-interested-in-ex-ufc-champ-next-jon-jones-takes-steroids\" target=\"_blank\">MMAFighting<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I\u2019m not interested in Jon Jones. Jon Jones takes steroids and now he\u2019s been banned for steroids,\u201d Manuwa said at Saturday\u2019s post-fight press conference. \u201cBefore, I was a big fan of Jon Jones, the things he\u2019s done in the Octagon and everything, but he\u2019s been suspended for a year or something and he\u2019s had issues before. He\u2019s a great fighter. I greatly respect him, but he\u2019s been banned for steroids and that taints everything that he\u2019s done. So, I\u2019m not really interested. When he comes back, I\u2019ll fight him, no problem. But I\u2019m focused on the belt right now, and that\u2019s going to be the winner of DC and \u2018Rumble\u2019 Johnson.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He continued:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI will be fighting the elite fighters in the world, and I don\u2019t know, we\u2019ll see what happens. He\u2019s back in July or something. [Cormier and Johnson] are fighting next month, so the fight could be made before he comes back anyway, so we\u2019ll see what happens. I\u2019m going to fly to Vegas to meet with (UFC president) Dana (White) after this and we\u2019ll see what happens.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Jimi Manuwa has now won two fights in a row, both via knockout, as he had previously turned out the lights on Ovince Saint Preux this past October.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"730\" height=\"380\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Jimi-Manuwa.png\" alt=\"Jimi Manuwa KOs Ovince St. Preux\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-227882\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Jimi-Manuwa.png 730w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Jimi-Manuwa-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Jimi-Manuwa-585x305.png 585w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Jimi-Manuwa-390x203.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With that said, &#8220;The Poster Boy&#8221; has gone 3-2 in his past five contests overall, suffering knockout losses to Anthony Johnson and Alexander Gustafsson in that time.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think Jimi Manuwa is deserving of a title shot against the winner of April&#8217;s Daniel Cormier vs. Anthony Johnson championship bout? 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