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UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones has recently traded quite a bit of trash talk with interim middleweight champion Israel Adesanya, but he’s not sure he’d be willing to fight him<\/a>. Jones’ next opponent Thiago Santos, however, would relish the chance to fight Adesanya, even if it meant dropping back down to the middleweight division.<\/p>\n

In fact, Thiago Santos says he has had a few encounters with Israel Adesanya in the past, and they haven’t been particularly pleasant.<\/p>\n

\u201dI\u2019d love to beat up Adesanya,\u201d Santos told the media in Brazil recently (via MMA Fighting<\/a>). \u201cI don\u2019t think he\u2019s a nice guy. I would love to fight him. I don\u2019t know, the times I\u2019ve met him\u2026 I don\u2019t know, we didn\u2019t get along. The energy, I don\u2019t know. I can\u2019t explain. Same thing with (Michael) Bisping. I\u2019m like that, I feel the person\u2019s energy. I have nothing to say about him. If he\u2019s a bad person or not, I don\u2019t know. But we didn\u2019t get along.\u201d<\/p>\n

If Thiago Santos were to meet Israel Adesanya in the cage, he’s confident he’d be able to defeat him. That being said, this is not a fight he’s thinking about for the moment. His focus is glued exclusively to the massive test ahead in Jon Jones.<\/p>\n

“As a fighter? He\u2019s talented, he has a gift,” Santos said of Adesanya. “I can\u2019t say a thing about that. But I don\u2019t think he can take it against me. He can\u2019t handle someone who hits him hard, who doesn\u2019t fall for his games. His fight with Anderson [Silva], you can see he\u2019s not that big of a deal.<\/p>\n

\u201dBut that\u2019s something to think about down the line, I can\u2019t think about it now. I have to think about Jon Jones. I think that, if things go right against Jon Jones and I win, I might unify both [division’s] belts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Does a future fight between Thiago Santos and Israel Adesanya interest you? Who do you think would win?<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPENN.COM<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 6\/25\/2019. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones has recently traded quite a bit of trash talk with interim middleweight champion Israel Adesanya, but he’s not sure he’d be willing to fight him. Jones’ next opponent Thiago Santos, however, would relish the chance to fight Adesanya, even if it meant dropping back down to the middleweight division. 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