Compilation of Jones teasing a move up to Heavyweight (2012-present).

acannxr said:
Feb 2012
Jones flirted with the idea and has commented in the past that as he gets older and his body continues to develop, he sees heavyweight as a viable home.
https://www.mmaweekly.com/jon-jones-will-eventually-be-a-heavyweight-but-not-in-2012

Oct 2012
"I'll definitely move up to heavyweight," Jones responded. "But it'll probably be around 2013. Maybe at the end of 2013."
https://www.mmafighting.com/2012/10...finitely-eyeing-late-2013-move-to-heavyweight

Nov 2012
"I respect the champions and the top-ranked guys in the heavyweight division," Jones said. "I realize that me, at my current size, the odds would be majorly against me, so it would be about doing it right, doing it with a lot of passion, and having fun with the game. I'll do it right when that time comes, I'll give it my all, and I'll expect to be a winner."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mma/2012/11/04/jon-jones-ufc-heavyweight-division/1681991/

Dec 2012
"When I compete at heavyweight I plan on weighing like 240 and I really won't want to get much bigger than that." Jones said in the chat. "I think speed and agility would give me an advantage being smaller than those guys, so."
https://www.mmamania.com/2012/12/12...-jones-plans-to-weigh-240-pounds-for-eventual

Jan 2013
"I think heavyweight is going to come along around 2014 - maybe even late this year. Who knows. It'll definitely be a fight for the fans."
https://www.bloodyelbow.com/2013/1/26/3918316/ufc-champ-jon-jones-move-to-heavyweight-in-2013

Jul 2013
“It’d be a great thing because I’d bring a lot of speed against those bigger guys,” Jones said. “And my style is dynamic in a way I don’t think they’ve experienced. I don’t see any heavyweights throwing flying knees or spinning elbows. I’d be faster and a handful.”
https://www.latimes.com/sports/la-xpm-2013-jul-30-la-sp-sn-ufc-jon-jones-20130730-story.html

Jan 2014
"Yeah for sure [I’d like to fight Cain Velasquez], but right now I’m preparing to go into probably the toughest schedule I’ve had," he told an audience at the Prudential Center.
https://www.mmafighting.com/2014/1/...as-plenty-of-work-to-do-at-205-before-leap-to

Nov 2014
"There's definitely a lot of heavyweights I know I can beat," Jones said. "There's a lot of heavyweights I know that could give me a hell of a run or possibly beat me. I keep it real. I'm smaller than these guys."
https://www.foxsports.com/stories/ufc/jon-jones-on-potential-move-to-heavyweight-i-could-be-better

Jan 2016
So Jones took to Twitter to respond to a question about his willingness to step up and accept the fight. Ranked as arguably the best pound-for-pound fighter in the sport, Jones quickly responded that if the real heavyweight title was on the line, he's more than willing to do it.
https://www.foxsports.com/stories/u...-196-if-real-heavyweight-title-is-on-the-line

Sep 2016


Dec 2016
“I do want to challenge for the heavyweight title, but I’m waiting for the perfect opponent,” Jones said.
https://mmajunkie.usatoday.com/2016...g-jump-to-heavyweight-awaits-perfect-opponent

Jul 2017
“I feel like Stipe is relatively unknown to the general public. It wouldn’t even be a real superfight in my opinion. I think a lot of MMA fans would be super excited about, but the general public wouldn’t care about that fight,” explained “Bones.”
https://www.mmamania.com/2017/7/30/...nknown-stipe-miocic-wouldnt-be-superfight-mma

Feb 2018
“Your confidence is going to have to be on lock in order to beat me my guy. Can’t be talking about “I think I can.” I feed off picograms of self-doubt, and I can smell it from miles away. For now let’s just focus on the fights ahead of us. My heavyweight days are inevitable.”
https://www.bjpenn.com/mma-news/ufc...n-velasquez-claims-of-being-able-to-beat-him/

Dec 2018
“Nah, no,” Jones said matter-of-factly when asked about the potential matchup. “He looks good at heavyweight. He’s designed to be a heavyweight. He’s comfortable there. He naturally goes to heavyweight between every fight. That is his spot, and like I said, he makes a great heavyweight champion. Even before fighting me, he was on a tear at heavyweight. That’s his zone. I have no reason to challenge him at heavyweight, because for me it’s not personal."
https://www.mmafighting.com/2018/12...-daniel-cormier-at-heavyweight-thats-his-zone

Mar 2019
“I don’t think it’s fair, really, because I’ve always been a light heavyweight. Despite who the champion’s been, I’ve never challenged anybody at heavyweight. And I feel like I’ll move up to heavyweight on my own terms, when I feel like the UFC’s playing ball with me contractually to entertain that. No one’s entertaining any idea of switching the contract for any superfights, so we’re just kinda stuck at this spot here, fighting at light heavyweight.”
https://www.mmafighting.com/2019/3/...ecause-quite-frankly-they-want-to-see-me-lose

“I figure if you’re going to make the gamble, you might as well go extremely big,” Jones said. “Go big or go home. A Brock Lesnar fight (is) extremely high risk and extremely high reward. I don’t really see myself versus anyone that could bring in the numbers me and Brock could bring in.”
https://www.denverpost.com/2019/03/04/jon-jones-ufc-future/

May 2019
“Right now, I make light heavyweight very easily and it would just make no sense to fight a guy who technically on your level, to give him a size advantage, I’m not doing it. I’m sure my fans don’t like to hear me talk like that but that’s just me being a realist and being respectful to Daniel’s abilities.”
https://www.mmanews.com/jon-jones-r...ng-up-to-heavyweight-to-fight-daniel-cormier/

Oct 2019


Dec 2019
“I was trying to get a Stipe Miocic fight and I thought that maybe that would happen,” Jones said. “But instead we have Stipe vs. ‘DC’ 3. But at the moment I was so ready to go to heavyweight and stick my hands in some of those big fellas.”
https://mmajunkie.usatoday.com/2019/12/jon-jones-heavyweight-strong-possibility-stipe-miocic-ufc-247

Aug 2020


Apr 2021
Jones denies asking for $30 million to fight Ngannou:


But fires his management team the following week:
https://www.mmafighting.com/2021/4/...m-ufc-261-delivers-ppv-endeavor-banks-ufc-ipo

May 2021
Jones delays his "move up" another year:
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This is awesome!


Sherdog has been irrationally obsessed with Jon moving up while hes secured a legacy at LHW

Logically he can wait until his mid 30s and still dominate if he wanted, which would be perfect timing.

Or he can just do nothing.

Either way, it irrational riles up his detractors which is great!
 
And still to this very day gullible fools on here are like "he put on muscle obviously hes serious this time use common sense. Hes gonna wait to see who wins between francis and Lewis and fight the winner"

LMAO

Jon himself has a moment of honesty and says he will only fight at HW if its "the right matchup. Most of those guys are way too big. But for the right matchup stylistically I will"

And still people on here mouth off about how Jon would beat every single person at HW

I actually still am a fan of Jon but its wild how some people have more confidence than Jon Jones himself about how he would do at HW
 
who needs 3 yrs to bulk up to hw? lol
 
capnlarge said:
I mean he gave up the LHW so I think he's serious this time... About fighting the MW champ at HW
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He gave up the lHW title because he knows he was going to lose it and that was a mighty close one to reyes. (123 reyes)
 
Winners focus on winning. Losers focus on losing and staying irrelevant. Just to let you know jones haters.
 
Hey Soos said:
Winners focus on winning. Losers focus on losing and staying irrelevant. Just to let you know jones haters.
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Reyes 1,2,3

also funny coming from a guy w a conor AV. He hasnt been focusing on winning for some time.
 
You gotta set the timeline to the times he got in trouble and beat DC. He actually has a better chance of winning at HW back then since he was training with other HWs. The issue now is that the UFC wants to pay him the same amount as his LHW pay. I don't think he is scared. His whole career was based on him avoiding a knockout.
 
The ego on Jones is unbelievable. Thankfully, I killed my ego many moons ago.
 
This thread is gold.
 
Jon never likes to take risk. SO if he can make LHW still i dont see him going up.
He wants an edge and things in his favour, going to HW kinda nulls that.
 
Its actually been since 09 not 12. I cant find the original source but here was a Q and A he did with Matt Bishel in 09. It was either before the Bonner or OBrien fight

Matt Bishel (MB): "Hey Jon, thanks for taking the time to do this interview with me."
Jon Jones (JJ): "No problem."

MB: "A year ago you started MMA and burst onto the local Northeast fight scene going 6-0 before getting the call up to the UFC. What made you decide to get into MMA?"

JJ: "My decision to get into MMA was based around me expecting a child. I was a college athlete and I was wrestling and doing my thing at Iowa Central University and after competing for two years at ICU, we found out we were expecting and I basically put college on hold with the thought that I could use my wrestling gifts to make us money. At the time it seemed like a real gamble, but it ended up being awesome and look how it’s worked out for me."

MB: "We all know your striking is somewhat unorthodox, so how exactly did you adopt this style, and what do you do to improve on your stand-up?"

JJ: "I came up with my style of striking just by being very open-minded and accepting knowledge from wherever I can find it. When I first started off with Team Bombsquad we didn’t have a striking coach, so I took it into my own hands to study footage on the computer, like youtube videos and some of the guys would find different websites and just go out to Barnes and Nobles and purchase different Muay Thai books. I just really took it into my own hands to be a real professional, attempting to know all I can know. I guess between reading Karate books, Muay Thai books, and Kyokushin books, you just take all this different knowledge and you mix it all together and there you go with an unorthodox standup game."

MB: "You come from a family of big guys and you’ve talked about making the move up to HW. Is that something you’re still contemplating?"

JJ: "Yeah for sure. Right now I’m trying to make 205 though. I’m not gonna lie I’m like 215, which is a typical size for an ?85 pounder but I’m the biggest I’ve ever been in my life, and I know I’m going to continue to grow. I’m definitely not afraid to fight at heavyweight. I wrestled at 215 in high school. I always loved going against the bigger guys and I feel that I’m more agile then a lot of the bigger guys, so the move up to heavyweight is something that I’m going to look forward to in the future, maybe by the time I’m 23 or 24.
 
HHJ said:
Reyes 1,2,3

also funny coming from a guy w a conor AV. He hasnt been focusing on winning for some time.
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And guess who got their hand raised lol. I'd rather listen to the judges. Also, conor has nothing to do with the forum. So stay on topic bud.
 
Hey Soos said:
And guess who got their hand raised lol. I'd rather listen to the judges. Also, conor has nothing to do with the forum. So stay on topic bud.
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Reyes 123 bud
 
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