{"id":288617,"date":"2018-10-19T09:08:58","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T16:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=288617"},"modified":"2018-10-19T09:08:58","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T16:08:58","slug":"michael-bisping-wonders-how-jon-jones-demons-will-affect-him-in-ufc-232-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/michael-bisping-wonders-how-jon-jones-demons-will-affect-him-in-ufc-232-comeback\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Bisping wonders how Jon Jones&#8217; demons will affect him in UFC 232 comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC light heavyweight champ Jon Jones&#8217; comeback is now official. After a lengthy sit on the sidelines due to a failed drug test, the former champion will battle Alexander Gustafsson for the vacant light heavyweight title in the main event of UFC 232 on December 29.<\/p>\n<p>While many members of the MMA community are confident the pound-for-pound great Jon Jones will return to action in vintage form, former UFC middleweight champ Michael Bisping isn&#8217;t sure. He believes Jon Jones&#8217; demons could be a factor in the fight \u2014 although he understands that some fighters need their demons to perform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s gonna be interesting to see what Jones comes back,&#8221; Michael Bisping said recently on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCMTmbsnNJ8zj7E0UZfsoS7A\/videos?disable_polymer=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Believe You Me<\/a> podcast (transcript via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/michael-bisping-wonders-jones-ufc-232\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMA News<\/a>). &#8220;A lot of guys, they need those demons. They need the fire, they need something that makes them an outlier that separates them from the pack. A lot of people, myself included, had that. You need that wild side and if you\u2019re just a regular Joe you\u2019re not gonna \u2026 I\u2019m not saying you have to be a bit reckless or have a little bit of semi-screw loose here and there, but it f*cking helps when you step into an Octagon and fight somebody. His thing is, he\u2019s a wild man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jon Jones has not fought since July of 2017 when he knocked out Daniel Cormier in a light heavyweight title fight. When he failed a drug test, however, this win was overturned and the title was returned to Cormier, who has held it ever since. Cormier will be stripped of the light heavyweight title when Jones and Gustafsson fight at UFC 232.<\/p>\n<p>How do you think Jon Jones will look in his return to action?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPENN.COM<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 10\/19\/2018.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC light heavyweight champ Jon Jones&#8217; comeback is now official. After a lengthy sit on the sidelines due to a failed drug test, the former champion will battle Alexander Gustafsson for the vacant light heavyweight title in the main event of UFC 232 on December 29. While many members of the MMA community are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":284844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10091,10128,39610],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Michael Bisping wonders how Jon Jones&#039; demons will affect him in UFC 232 comeback | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping wonders which version of Jon Jones we&#039;ll see in the cage at UFC 232.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/michael-bisping-wonders-how-jon-jones-demons-will-affect-him-in-ufc-232-comeback\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Michael Bisping wonders how Jon Jones&#039; 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