Israel Adesanya's rivalry with Jon Jones is dead and buried despite the UFC champions previously teasing a fight.
Adesanya traded words with Jones three years ago when the pair were separated by just one weight class, but any chance of a fight between them was scratched when Jones recently moved up heavyweight. Adesanya, who reclaimed his middleweight title by knocking out Alex Pereira in April, admitted to being a fan of Jones for over a decade and said he is done trading words with the consensus greatest UFC fighter of all-time.
“I’ve been a fan of Jon since I saw him at UFC 94," Adesanya said on Impaulsive. "He fought Stephan Bonnar, rest in peace. I saw what he did in that fight and I saw a fan. I think he was [of me] as well. Then he mentioned something like, ‘Oh, I’d like to fight Israel.’ Why the f*** does this guy want to fight me? I’m a middleweight. I responded back and we had beef.
