UFC Tonight talks UFC 152, Lombard vs. Munoz, and more…
“UFC Tonight” Insider Ariel Helwani spoke to figures across the UFC spectrum and discussed what he found out on last night’s episode:
On how Jon Jones and Greg Jackson, Jon Jones’ coach, are feeling after the cancellation of UFC 151:
“They have moved on and started to train for Vitor Belfort, and are making a game plan for that fight. Greg Jackson is excited to fight Vitor Belfort. He’s trained with him in the past. They still stand by their decision to not fight Chael Sonnen with what they say is three days’ notice, not eight days’ notice, because they really don’t get to train during fight week. They’re just thinking about the next fight now.”
On Chris Weidman possibly fighting Alan Belcher:
“His [Weidman’s] response was that he’s still hoping and waiting for a fight with Anderson Silva, but the UFC still has not said if he will fight him. If he can’t fight Anderson Silva, he said he would like to fight with a number-one contender fighter, but he believes that Alan Belcher isn’t that fighter given where he’s ranked. So what he proposed is fighting the winner of the Bisping vs. Stann fight, for a number-one contender spot.”
On Mark Munoz saying he’d like to fight Hector Lombard next:
“Hector Lombard said he’d like to take this fight. Before UFC 149, Hector Lombard was talking a lot more about fighting Mark Munoz than he was with his opponent Tim Boetsch. Hector has yet to be offered this fight, but would like to fight Mark next.”
On how the Flyweights Joseph Benavidez and Demetrious Johnson felt going from main event to co-main event on UFC 152:
“Both had interesting takes on the confusing situation. Joseph Benavidez took the news very well and said he got into the UFC to be a champion, not to fight in main events. He said that he knew more people would watch the fight now that Jon Jones was fighting Vitor Belfort. As for Demetrious Johnson, he was bummed out. ‘It sucked,’ he said. He was shocked by it and needed time to digest it. But then, he thought about it and decided that more people will watch the fight and that would be a good thing. So overall Joseph liked the change and Demetrious Johnson needed more time to digest it and was accepting of it. In the end, they’re the co-main event now and they’ll both be main events in the very near future.”
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