{"id":318310,"date":"2019-07-05T08:18:10","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T15:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=318310"},"modified":"2019-07-05T08:18:10","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T15:18:10","slug":"thiago-santos-promises-upset-of-jon-jones-im-going-to-go-out-there-and-beat-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/thiago-santos-promises-upset-of-jon-jones-im-going-to-go-out-there-and-beat-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Thiago Santos promises upset of Jon Jones: ‘I\u2019m going to go out there and beat him’"},"content":{"rendered":"

If Thiago Santos beats Jon Jones in the main event of UFC 239 on Saturday night, don’t say he didn’t warn you.<\/p>\n

Despite being pegged as a massive bettering underdog<\/a> against the seemingly unbeatable champion, the Brazilian challenger claims he has successfully humanized Jones in his mind, and is prepared to cudgel the champion just as he has all of his other recent opponents.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can\u2019t take the merit (away from) Jon Jones,\u201d Thiago Santos told MMA Junkie<\/a> ahead of UFC 239. \u201cHe\u2019s a great fighter. He\u2019s done what he\u2019s done with all these tough guys. But at the end of the day, he\u2019s a man who has two legs and two arms. I don\u2019t care how big of a fighter or how big of a name he has. I\u2019m going to go out there and beat him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m aware of the challenge, but I look at him as just another man who feels and bleeds just like everybody else. It\u2019s never easy. I know the challenge that\u2019s in front of me. I\u2019m sure he\u2019s very well prepared as I am, and I\u2019m going to go out there and show that.\u201d<\/p>\n

While many fighters seem to lose to Jon Jones before they even enter the cage with him, finding themselves psychologically deflated by the champion’s accomplishments and aura, Thiago Santos says he’s not even nervous about the mammoth task ahead.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m ready,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is what it is. I think the fans are more nervous than I am.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thiago Santos has won his last four fights, defeating Jan Blachowicz, Jimi Manuwa, Eryk Anders and Kevin Holland. He knocked out three of those men, and seems to envision a similarly brutal destiny for Jon Jones \u2014 hard as it may be for the rest of the world to fathom at this juncture. But don’t say he didn’t warn you.<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPENN.COM<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 7\/5\/2019. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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