LAS VEGAS – There was growing belief among MMA pundits that, if Alex Pereira won at UFC 313, he could steal the Jon Jones fight from Tom Aspinall . Not anymore. That’s because Pereira’s reign as UFC light heavyweight champion came to an end after he was dethroned by Magomed Ankalaev in the UFC 313 main event Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Sure, Jones late last year expressed his desire to make what he described as a “legacy” fight with Pereira instead of unifying the heavyweight title against interim champ Aspinall. But after UFC 313, Dana White seemed to indicate that Pereira never was seriously in position to challenge Jones even if he’d successfully come through with his fourth consecutive title defense. “When you’re trying to ask a guy to move up two weight classes to heavyweight and take on the greatest of all time … there’s still tough guys to fight in the light heavyweight division,” White said of Pereira during the UFC 313 post-event news conference
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Dana White quashes remaining Jon Jones vs. Alex Pereira talk after UFC 313 – MMA Junkie