For months, UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones shut down the idea of meeting Daniel Cormier at heavyweight. Every time someone brought up the notion, Jones insisted that a third fight with the former UFC heavyweight champion, if it was going to happen, must be contested at 205 pounds, where their first two fights (the latter of which officially never happened as a no-contest) were conducted. But a heavyweight bout with a 42-year-old has only fought once in the past eight years? That’s apparently more to Jones’ liking. Former WWE champion and Olympic wrestling gold medalist Kurt Angle, who has never competed in MMA, was for some reason booked on “Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show” on Monday, and was asked his opinion on whether Brock Lesnar, the former UFC heavyweight champion whose last octagon appearance came in 2016, would ever do real fighting as opposed to the cartoon variety ever again.
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Jon Jones says he’d embarrass Brock Lesnar if they fought – MMA Junkie