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Andrew McNicol

Corey “Overtime” Anderson has said light heavyweight champion Jon “Bones” Jones is scared to fight him after the UFC’s pound-for-pound No 1 snubbed his calls for a title shot.
Anderson (13-4) broke into the division’s top five after a first-round knockout of rising star Johnny Walker at UFC 244 last weekend.
The 30-year-old joined Dominick Reyes (12-0) as a front-runner for Jones’ (25-1, one no contest) next title defence – but Jones soon turned him down.
“Just finished a coaches meeting studying Dominick and Cory’s [sic] careers. Established Dominick [is] definitely the more dangerous fighter. Beating his a** next,” he tweeted.


Anderson, who is on a four-fight win streak having beaten Walker, Ilir Latifi, Glover Teixeira and Patrick Cummins, snapped back at Jones on social media.
“Ha. Okay Bones. I wouldn’t wanna fight me either”, he tweeted, to which Jones replied: “Cory moves when I say move.”
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Anderson gave UFC boss Dana White an ultimatum – a title fight or a “release me” – after insisting the promotion has long been stifling his rise to the top.
“We’ll figure out what’s next for you. And when your contract is up, if you still don’t want to be here, you can do whatever you want to do. In the meantime, take the fights we offer you. Pretty simple,” White responded at the post-event press conference.
Anderson has since clarified his statement saying he is in “no rush to fight for the title right now” but stood by his claim that the promotion was pushing less-deserving fighters for a title shot at his expense.

“I don’t want to be at the point where they’re trying to bump up some new contender again – some guy they picked up on short notice or has a great post-fight interview and they try to put him in front of me to fight for the title. That’s what I was saying”, he told MMAFighting.com.
White has also stated Reyes is most likely to be the next in line for 32-year-old Jones.
Jones has defeated contenders Thiago Santos, Anthony Smith and Alexander Gustafsson since returning from his Usada ban for doping violations in 2017.
Anderson said he would be willing to wait for the winner of Jones versus Reyes if the fight is set.


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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 02: Corey Anderson of the United States (R) fights against Johnny Walker of Brazil in the Light Heavyweight bout during UFC 244 at Madison Square Garden on November 02, 2019 in New York City. Steven Ryan/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==

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