No One Wants UFC Champ Jon Jones, Not Anderson Silva, Not Phil Davis

zana1126 · 03-24-2011, 07:19 AM

MMALinker: No One Wants UFC Champ Jon Jones, Not Anderson Silva, Not Phil Davis

by Kid Nate on Mar 23, 2011

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After Jon Jones' dramatic win over Mauricio Rua, the UFC is lucky that Rashad Evans had already decided he was willing to fight Jon Jones because no one else seems interested.

Not UFC middleweight champ Anderson Silva who happily jumped up to light heavyweight to fight Forrest Griffin and James Irvin just a few years back. Silva told Dana White he is done with the division, per MMA Weekly:

"Anderson Silva has made it very clear to me that he does not want to fight at 205 pounds," White stated following UFC 128.
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"Originally, when I was always talking about him trying to go for another belt at 205 pounds, and he stuck his big toe in it a couple times, I think because I was pushing the issue. He's made it very clear he doesn't want to fight at 205," White stated.

And red hot light heavyweight contender Phil Davis tells the MMA Hour he's focused on Antonio Rogerio Nogueira at UFC Fight Night 24:

"I don't really think so much about fighting guys until I'm scheduled to fight them," Davis said on Monday's episode of The MMA Hour. "Right now, I'm thinking about Little Nogueira and after I fight Little Nogueira then I'll see who I'm scheduled to fight next. That's really how I take it. I don't worry about ... I just really don't get into it. There's no reason to assume you are going to fight someone. You know, it kind of starts that feeling of awkwardness, if you do, when you see that person. I just fight whoever I have to fight. That's it."
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"It's good that they are looking at me. I appreciate that. That's great. I mean, one day I would love to fight for the belt. I just need to get there."

Davis is doing the right thing here. He's a relatively green fighter heading into the biggest fight of his career against a very dangerous veteran. This is not the time to get ahead of himself.

But if fighters are reluctant to call out Jones, it's with good reason. His Muay Thai trainer Phil Nurse spoke to Mike Chiappetta about Jones and his potential:

Nurse never had a thought about changing Jones' willingness to take risks, he simply wanted to teach Jones how to set up those strikes better, make them even more predictable and effective.

"He needed to learn to do things at the right time," Nurse told MMA Fighting. "The things he was doing, he was doing to show he could. It's great, but there's a time to do it when it's going to be a definite hit, or more likely to hit, instead of just looking good. He totally got it, and that's when he started sponging, soaking it up."
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"He still has a medium stage to go through and advanced stage to go through," Nurse said. "That's what people have to be ready for. The things that you see in movies, those are the things he's going to pull off."

Jones at 23 is still growing into his body. Light heavyweights should take solace in the very high likelihood that as Jones' immense frame fills out he'll have to move up to heavyweight where he'll be someone else's problem.

rob_bills · 03-24-2011, 07:22 AM

This has already been posted, and its kid nate so it should be noob jacked bro

snakebite · 03-24-2011, 09:34 AM

This is fucking retarded. Why does it say Anderson and Davis won't fight jones? Thearticlesays nothing like that at all. It says silva don't want to fight at 205 and Davis just focus' on his current opponent. Besides that why would Davis even be in the title picture?

The Return Of...... · 03-24-2011, 09:42 AM

if there was ever a jon jones band wagon nut hugging club i have got to be in it with all the believe the hype talking i have been doing...............

that said this article is shit and no silva nor davis is scared of jones. neither is rampage, rashad, forrest, or even the man he just run through shogun.

to me its articles like this that keep uneducated fans uneducated

Cat--Smasher · 03-24-2011, 09:44 AM

Real quality posting here. Not only does it not mention Davis or Anderson specifically saying they do not want to fight Jones but the real article those quotes came from have already both been posted.

goodtimes · 03-24-2011, 10:19 AM

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Originally Posted by snakebite

This is fucking retarded. Why does it say Anderson and Davis won't fight jones? Thearticlesays nothing like that at all. It says silva don't want to fight at 205 and Davis just focus' on his current opponent. Besides that why would Davis even be in the title picture?

That's why Kid Nate articles aren't supposed to be posted in this forum. I also like how it says "no one" when Rashad Evans is totally fired up to be fighting Jones, and I'm sure Machida and Rampage both want a piece of him, Bader would love a rematch I bet, and if Davis wins against Nog and is given a title shot, I'm sure he would take it as well. It wasn't that long ago that Jon Jones turned down a fight with Lil Nog....