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The Takedown | Jon Jones continues sad slide towards UFC irrelevancy, with Kamaru Usman on a trajectory to surpass him
- Former light heavyweight champ likely to insert himself into the spotlight after UFC 268, but is anyone really listening any more?
- ‘Bones’ has not fought since February 2020, and instead tries to remain relevant by posting on Twitter – however his shtick is getting old
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Two things are bound to happen this weekend in relation to UFC 268.
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The marquee bout on Saturday night’s main card at Madison Square Garden is likely to deliver a fight-of-the-year candidate, and Jon Jones will of course tweet about the whole thing from his sofa.
On Saturday night, welterweight champion Kamaru Usman (19-1) will step into the Octagon for his fifth title defence, and probably defeat a resurgent Colby “Chaos” Covington (16-2) in a repeat of their barnburner from December 2019.
Victory is likely to lend credence to the claim of “The Nigerian Nightmare” as the welterweight “GOAT” (greatest of all time), and he will cement himself atop the UFC’s pound-for-pound rankings.
And then we’ll get an earful from Jones’ Twitter account, let out a sigh of apathy, and wonder how we got to this point in regards to arguably the sport’s greatest of all-time, regardless of division.
Like most MMA fans, I’ve long been a supporter of Jon Jones (26-1, one no contest), given he’s always appeared to be no more than a good guy with “some demons”, as UFC president Dana White put it after the former light heavyweight champion’s latest arrest.
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