{"id":363949,"date":"2020-10-09T06:21:40","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T13:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=363949"},"modified":"2020-10-09T06:21:40","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T13:21:40","slug":"israel-adesanya-jon-jones-matchup-will-be-biggest-fight-in-ufc-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/israel-adesanya-jon-jones-matchup-will-be-biggest-fight-in-ufc-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Adesanya: Jon Jones matchup will be &#8220;biggest fight in UFC history&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya believes his seemingly inevitable fight with Jon Jones will be the biggest in UFC history.<\/p>\n<p>Adesanya and Jones, the former UFC light heavyweight champion, have been jawing back-and-forth on social media and in interviews for months. Their trash talk has been getting increasingly venomous, with both men <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/israel-adesanya-and-jon-jones-target-each-others-families-in-latest-social-media-skirmish\/\">even mentioning the other&#8217;s families<\/a> recently.<\/p>\n<p>Adesanya believes their verbal warfare will likely get even more personal before all is said and done.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t mention my father,\u201d Adesanya told <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2020\/10\/ufc-israel-adesanya-jon-jones-twitter-feud-more-personal-biggest-fight-ufc-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA Junkie<\/a> on Wednesday. \u201cI don\u2019t give a (expletive) if your mom\u2019s dead. I\u2019m sure she was a beautiful woman, a beautiful soul, but I don\u2019t give a (expletive) if she\u2019s dead. Don\u2019t mention my dad. Do not mention my family. This is business, this is work. Yeah, sure, mention my coach. Cool. But don\u2019t mention anything personal. You think you can get down and dirty? Mother(expletive) I\u2019m from the gutter. I can get grimy. You don\u2019t understand Nigerians. Trust me, you don\u2019t want this war.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you want to go down back-and-forth dirty, bro,&#8221; Adesanya added. &#8220;You don\u2019t even know the gutter, from your little posh, suburban spot in New Mexico. You don\u2019t know, bro. Trust me. He wants to get down and dirty and start mentioning family members? And people will say, \u2018You should\u2019ve mentioned his dad instead.\u2019 It\u2019s not up to you to decide what I do. You mentioned my family. It\u2019s open season. You\u2019re lucky I didn\u2019t come for other members of your family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All of the trash talk between Jones and Adesanya has made their potential collision feel like a near certainty. If it does happen, Adesanya believes it will clock in as the biggest fight in UFC history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere\u2019s the contract?\u201d Adesanya said. \u201cI\u2019ve never been offered this fight, so it\u2019s like where\u2019s this contract that everyone likes to bring up? Paulo said the same thing, \u2018Sign the contract.\u2019 What contract mother(expletive)? I just whipped your ass, bad. Double-tap. Easy. Everyone is saying, \u2018Sign the contract. Sign the contract.\u2019 I don\u2019t think these people know how contracts work. You have to get a contract before you sign. But yeah, cheddar makes it better. That\u2019s a big fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Who do you think would win a fight between Jon Jones and Israel Adesanya?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya believes his seemingly inevitable fight with Jon Jones will be the biggest in UFC history. 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