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[Cat--Smasher]

Jones has already confessed he would like to challenge for the heavyweight belt in the future, admitting "there is no greater honour" in the sport than being heavyweight champion.

A Strikeforce v UFC champion v champion encounter with Dan Henderson could also be on his future agenda after Henderson said he would be fancy the fight, but brother Arthur is predicting his brother will hit the very top.

"I'm telling you, he's going to be a heavyweight champion someday," Arthur was quoted as saying by ESPN.

'Freak child' Jon Jones 'will be UFC heavyweight champion' - Arthur Jones | UFC News | ESPN.co.uk

[noahm]

This would not go well for Hendo imo. Jones is just too tall and long for a guy like Hendo to get to effectively especially since he has good wrestling skills. As to HW title, he could be a dangerous contender, but I don't think it will come nearly as easily as LHW. His size/reach etc, has been as much a factor as skill, and there are some big fast guys up there.

[Leucoethiops]

If the fight were to materialize, my money would be on Cain to put a hurt on Jones in pretty short order.

[CRisCO]

Jones will have to move to heavyweight eventually is already huge.

[dbader08]

Not as long as Cain and Junior are in the UFC.

[FCK]

Oh I could totally see Jones taking it to Cain personally.

If he could handle Hendo's striking, then he could handle Cain, as the guys have similar huge looping hooks, with the ability to stand and bang and get messy in the clinch.

I mean Jones would have the reach and height advantage over Cain, but the aggressive striking would be Jones biggest challenge, as we've yet to really see his chin tested against a top striker*. That's not to say he hasn't been up against a top striker, but just I've never seen him rocked and recovered from a punch from one of them.

I don't know how big Jones would weigh in though at HW, as I can't imagine him passing 240lbs...

I think he'd struggle with the larger HW's vets like Frank Mir.

Interesting future Jones has ahead of him. Its great to have a prospect like him in the UFC.

[MickeyKnox]

I hope Jones cements his legacy in his LHW and moves on to become a great HW later on down the road. I would love to see him fight guys like Cain and JDS when he gets older and puts on more mass. Too bad we can't have the best of both worlds at the same time.

If Jon Jones does end up reigning the LHW divison for a long time and then decides to move up to HW and finds success, that would be amazing. He'd definitely go down in the books.

[dbader08]

Originally Posted by FCK

Oh I could totally see Jones taking it to Cain personally.

If he could handle Hendo's striking, then he could handle Cain, as the guys have similar huge looping hooks, with the ability to stand and bang and get messy in the clinch.

I mean Jones would have the reach and height advantage over Cain, but the aggressive striking would be Jones biggest challenge, as we've yet to really see his chin tested against a top striker*. That's not to say he hasn't been up against a top striker, but just I've never seen him rocked and recovered from a punch from one of them.

I don't know how big Jones would weigh in though at HW, as I can't imagine him passing 240lbs...

I think he'd struggle with the larger HW's vets like Frank Mir.

Interesting future Jones has ahead of him. Its great to have a prospect like him in the UFC.

You think he'd take it to Cain but struggle against a "larger HW" like Frank Mir? Thats a pretty bold claim man I don't see how you can honestly think that.

First of all Cain is a much better wrestler than Frank Mir and is also stronger in my opinion. Frank put on a lot of mass in a short period of time. Cain has been as big as he is now for a while and has really gotten used to his frame and his fight style compliments it well. Frank got manhandled by Carwin who couldn't do shit to JDS. Frank looks slower staning up in my opinion since putting on all that mass. It might compliment his wrestling more, but since when has Frank Mir been a wrestler? It helped him in his fights with Cro Cop and Roy Nelson, but its not going to help him in another fight with Carwin or a fight with Cain or JDS.

2nd of all, Jones hasn't fought Hendo. Also, Cain has much more versatile striking and is just a hell of a lot bigger. Another thing is, Cain has fewer fights than Jones does at this point and is going to continue to improve at just as quick of a rate if not a quicker one. We've seen Jones tire a bit in fights (not a lot) and we haven't seen Cain tire really at all. He went 3 hard rounds with Kongo, 2 hard rounds with Rothwell, and took out Lesnar and Nog in the 1st round and barely broke a sweat.

3rd, Jones still hasn't defended his title at LHW one time, so lets not be talking about him being HW champion until he actually does that.

[TBEAR]

Originally Posted by Leucoethiops

If the fight were to materialize, my money would be on Cain to put a hurt on Jones in pretty short order.

Originally Posted by dbader08

Not as long as Cain and Junior are in the UFC.

yup^^^^^

[Kimbo> Rampage]

It gets overlooked that Jones was a Wrestling phenom in high school. I dont know why he didnt go to college but he could have done a lot there. He did win the JC championship.



Id love to see him at hw down the line. He clearly has the size and length needed. After he is done at lhw, take some time off to add some serious size. Even at hw they will have to deal with his insane reach.