Jon Jones vs Francis Nganou Post UFC 260: The Pesky Return of Jones’ Nightmare
Francis Nganou’s crushing win over Stipe Miocic last night brought Jon Jones to the precarious place he was back in 2015 with a freight train named Rumble Johnson coming straight at him. For the youngest UFC Light Heavyweight Champion who had (with the exception of Gustaffson) handily beat every challenger in his path some seven times over, this was not a familiar or particularly comfy place to be in. Reason?
Just when Jon Jones thought it was safe to come out from under his safe blanket, out pops Francis Ngannou to set up Jon Jones vs Francis Ngannou: The Pesky Return of Jones’ Nightmare Post UFC 260. Francis Ngannou is is Rumble Johnson on Yohimbe boost. No picograms here; no picograms. Pic – Getty Images
Jones understands the language of violence and dominance at an elemental level. And with Rumble Johnson, he knew that he was no longer the alpha dog in the yard given Rumble’s instinctual grasp of the language of dominance and proven predilection for crushing crania and turning guys’ lights out. (EXHIBIT 10: The slugger had cracked Gustaffson’s cranium in front of horrified Swedish blondes). Given that instinctive reckoning, Jones had been deferential to Rumble when he was not and hiding his dis-ease behind the clowning and awkward on-camera punking of Dana.
Jones may not be as instinctively unsettled by Nganou as he was by Rumble due to personal and sub-cultural code idiosyncracies, but he is a realist. Francis is indubitably the more physically dominant of the two, and there is a distinct pheromonal odor that goes with that ish. Given unforced choices, Jones would have nothing to do with Rumble or Nganou in this lifetime. And my sense is that he will find a convenient financial pretext for NOT fighting Francis Nganou and sit out out as long as he can while hoping that a Derrick Lewis, Stipe Miocic or some other heavyweight dude not named Jones scrapes by the new champion to afford him safer place from which contend. That is how Floyd Mayweather curated his “undefeated” record into fake “undefeated” territory. Besides, Jon Jones grew up with two NFL Ngannous, so he intimately knows what the deal of being mounted and dominated is.
“Out of mouths of babes, out of the mouths of babes indeed …..” Youtube Truth, Uncut and Unmoderated.
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If the teasing gets to him and he decides to risk it all and fight the African nightmare named Francis, it may very well be the end of his undefeated but asterisked record. In the interim, he will have to put up with Israel Adesanya who will probably troll him to death with the opening salvo coming from non other than the Shaven Head of the UFC himself:
“If I’m Jon Jones and I’m home watching this fight, I start moving to 185,” (Dana White at UFC 260 Post Fight Press Conference, Las Vegas, NV)
To which Jon Jones replied with a weak: “Go to 185? I didn’t gain all this weight for no reason” (Jon Jones Twitter).
But equally weak and telling was Jones initial response to Francis Ngannou’s victory and intimations of a match-up between the two. “Show me the money,” Jones tellingly responded which translates into, “I really don’t wanna fight this dude, but if I really had to I need a good pretext to back out.” A dude who was really dying (pun fully intended) to prove “his self” would have said, “It’s on! – pending the working out of financial details!” That is the sound of a guy who wants to fight, not the hedgey, “Show me the money!” which sounds like a guy who wants to live a “loooong life ….. (coz) longevity has its place.”(MLK) This ain’t the sound of a man who “has been to the mountain and seeeen the promised land.” (Again MLK)
Another reason which points to Jon’s fear is that, “Show me the money” would have sounded strange had he said it of fighting Stipe, Derrick Lewis, Israel Adesanya or any man not named Francis “The Predator” Ngannou. But come to think of it, ducking Ngannou makes a lot of survival sense; fuck all that legacy B.S. which is for true believers without an ounce of Mayweather street sense. In this sense, Jon Jones and Israel Adesanya have something very much in common: they take on opponents they think they can beat. The only time Adesanya diverged from this tried and true stratagem to fight Yoel Romero, he nearly paid for it with one of his nine lives. He gamely survived by choosing not to engage the Cuban nightmare after his orbital got crushed in front of UFC ring girls. For both Jones and Adesanya respectively, Gustafsson and Reyes for Jones and Kevin Gastellum for Adesanya, were gross miscalculations which nearly cost them their then undefeated records, which is one of the reasons Jon Jones will come in as a dog should he decide (against street sense) to fight Francis Ngannou. And early moneyline is already showing Jones as a dog at +160 versus Ngannou’s -180.
My bet is that this fight does not happen ….. at least not anytime soon. Inspite of his instagram protestations, Jones doesn’t want it and he is gonna push the money pretext as hard as he can and Dana will push back even harder. Perfect partners in this bizarre dance.The likelihood of Jones relenting (in the name of legacy) is infinitely zero. So there you have it.
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