{"id":391933,"date":"2021-08-09T11:27:11","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T18:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=391933"},"modified":"2021-08-09T11:28:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T18:28:02","slug":"jon-jones-uninterested-in-fighting-stipe-miocic-says-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/jon-jones-uninterested-in-fighting-stipe-miocic-says-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Jones uninterested in fighting Stipe Miocic, says coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones is uninterested in fighting Stipe Miocic for his heavyweight debut, according to his coach.<\/p>\n<p>Jones is set to move up to the UFC heavyweight division for his next fight, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/stipe-miocic-has-accepted-a-fight-against-jon-jones-reveals-dana-white\/\">and UFC president Dana White recently confirmed the promotion had offered the fight to Miocic<\/a>, who accepted it. However, White later said that Jones will not be fighting until 2022, which indicates that he is not interested in fighting Miocic at this time. With UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou set to unify his belt against interim champion Ciryl Gane first, Jones will likely be waiting for the winner, and his coach Mike Winkeljohn confirmed as much. According to his longtime coach, Miocic is not viewed as a challenge for Jones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the outside looking in, I would think that wouldn\u2019t excite Jon. I think Jon wants the big one. He wants to get the big one, he wants the big challenge, and right now Stipe\u2019s not there. Stipe is awesome, don\u2019t get me wrong, but Jon wants the biggest challenge out there. That\u2019s how Jon Jones thinks,\u201d Winkeljohn said to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6ZVkU9EbUII&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Submission Radio<\/a> (h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/middleeasy.com\/mma-news\/jon-jones-uninterested-stipe-miocic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MiddleEasy<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s just me talking. For me it doesn\u2019t seem that exciting for Jon, it doesn\u2019t make sense. It makes sense to go after the title. Because honestly Jon is the best pound-for-pound of all time, so why would he have just a normal fight? Unless we felt we needed that to get used to our new body. I don\u2019t think we need that, I think Jon is already getting used to his new size, so there is not a necessity to take a step up fight. Jon is ready to go, he wants the challenge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Do you want to see Jon Jones fight Stipe Miocic next?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones is uninterested in fighting Stipe Miocic for his heavyweight debut, according to his coach. Jones is set to move up to the UFC heavyweight division for his next fight, and UFC president Dana White recently confirmed the promotion had offered the fight to Miocic, who accepted it. However, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54477,"featured_media":296027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10091,10253,39610],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jon Jones uninterested in fighting Stipe Miocic, says coach | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones is uninterested in fighting Stipe Miocic for his heavyweight debut, according to his coach.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/jon-jones-uninterested-in-fighting-stipe-miocic-says-coach\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" 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