{"id":351479,"date":"2020-05-27T09:12:14","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T16:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=351479"},"modified":"2020-05-27T09:12:35","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T16:12:35","slug":"israel-adesanya-believes-jon-jones-is-doing-what-mayweather-does","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/israel-adesanya-believes-jon-jones-is-doing-what-mayweather-does\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Adesanya accuses Jon Jones of doing &#8220;what Mayweather does&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya believes Jon Jones, the promotion&#8217;s light heavyweight champion, is taking a page out of Floyd Mayweather&#8217;s book.<\/p>\n<p>Jones has recently been eyeing potential super fights with Adesanya, and with UFC heavyweight contender <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/israel-adesanya-francis-ngannou-made-paulo-costa-st-his-pants-in-ufc-248-confrontation\/\">Francis Ngannou<\/a>. Adesanya believes the light heavyweight champion is merely attempting to keep himself in the headlines\u2014the same way Mayweather does when a big star like Conor McGregor fights.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Israel Adesanya on Paulo Costa, Jones\/Ngannou, McGregor&#039;s MMA GOAT List, TUF\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Lt-YKIzhmMM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt\u2019s what Mayweather does,&#8221; Adesanya said on the latest episode of <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Lt-YKIzhmMM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Submission Radio<\/a>. &#8220;Whenever McGregor gets in the headlines or whenever McGregor fights, what does Mayweather do? He throws his name out there, acts like he\u2019s gonna fight him, just because he wants his name in the headlines. You keep yourself relevant. I can play that game too. I can play that game anytime Jon Jones fights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Adesanya also reiterated his belief that Jones has no real interest in moving up to heavyweight to fight Ngannou\u2014contrary to <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/jon-jones-is-certain-hed-beat-francis-ngannou-and-ready-to-prove-it\/\">his recent comments<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[Jones has] been around the f**king game for 10 years he\u2019s never jumped up in weight. He\u2019s not doing it. Trust me. And a little birdie even told me, tweeted me, private messaged me and told me he\u2019s not gonna do it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why don\u2019t you f**king do it now?&#8221; Adesanya added. &#8220;Why don\u2019t you f**king go up to heavyweight? It\u2019s been f**king 10 years. Sign on the dotted line. Fight some f**king heavyweights. And I\u2019m not saying that he can\u2019t do it. He can. But why hasn\u2019t he done it yet?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of these comments from Israel Adesanya? Is Jon Jones borrowing from the playbook of Floyd Mayweather?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya believes Jon Jones, the promotion&#8217;s light heavyweight champion, is taking a page out of Floyd Mayweather&#8217;s book. Jones has recently been eyeing potential super fights with Adesanya, and with UFC heavyweight contender Francis Ngannou. 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