{"id":317193,"date":"2019-06-24T15:36:09","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T22:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=317193"},"modified":"2019-06-24T15:36:09","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T22:36:09","slug":"jon-jones-blasts-frail-israel-adesanya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/jon-jones-blasts-frail-israel-adesanya\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Jones blasts &#8216;frail&#8217; Israel Adesanya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones doesn&#8217;t see interim UFC middleweight title holder Israel Adesanya as a threat.<\/p>\n<p>Jones and Adesanya are on different paths in the immediate future, but that hasn&#8217;t stopped the two men from trading barbs. Jon Jones will defend his 205-pound gold against Thiago Santos in the main event of UFC 239 on July 6. Adesanya will take on Robert Whittaker in a middleweight title unification bout later this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bones&#8221; spoke to Ariel Helwani on his ESPN show and didn&#8217;t have too many kind things to say about &#8220;The Last Stylebender&#8221; (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/jon-jones-ill-teach-israel-adesanya-whole-different-world-of-hurt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMANews.com<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIsrael is light in the ass. He\u2019s light. He\u2019s skinny, he\u2019s skinny. I put my hands on him and teach him a whole different world of hurt. For him to be so frail and to not have a ground game. It\u2019s like bro, you don\u2019t wanna do it. And then to talk about my stand-up against Anthony Smith, with his face all bubbled up against a short wrestler who did that to him, it was just hilarious. I barely get touched in my fights. So for Israel to talk about his striking skills like they\u2019re so far ahead of mine, it\u2019s hilarious. Just to sum up what I think about Israel, I think he\u2019s a little too light in the ass, needs to eat some more jerk chicken and come holler at me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The animosity between Jones and Adesanya sparked when the interim middleweight champion said he was <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/ufc-236-israel-adesanya-says-he-is-hunting-jon-jones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hunting<\/a> Jones. The light heavyweight champion didn&#8217;t take too kindly to this and said <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/jon-jones-fires-back-at-israel-adesanya-ill-make-you-call-me-daddy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he&#8217;d make Adesanya call him &#8220;daddy&#8221;<\/a> by the third round.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think a showdown between Jon Jones and Israel Adesanya is inevitable? Sound off in the comments section PENN Nation!<\/p>\n<p>This article first appeared on BJPENN.com June 24, 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones doesn&#8217;t see interim UFC middleweight title holder Israel Adesanya as a threat. Jones and Adesanya are on different paths in the immediate future, but that hasn&#8217;t stopped the two men from trading barbs. 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