From the outside looking in, it’s easy to assume Jon Jones might be bored with the competition in the UFC light heavyweight division by now. After all, even Jones’ biggest detractors admit that regardless of what you might think about the champion outside the cage, he’s been peerless inside the octagon, making the list of challengers to his title seem like an assembly line of opponents getting queued up for defeat. But Jones (25-1 MMA, 19-1 UFC), a dozen years into a career in which he has never suffered a legitimate defeat, says he still finds reasons to get motivated for his challengers. And he’s found a big one in his next task, his UFC 247 main event title defense against Dominick Reyes. Reyes (12-0 MMA, 6-0 UFC) has been nearly untouchable thus far in his UFC tenure, boasting an undefeated record.
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Jon Jones: Dominick Reyes ‘way more scary of a fight’ than Corey Anderson – MMA Junkie