Jon Jones is less than two weeks away from challenging Ciryl Gane for the heavyweight title at UFC 285. Yet even after being removed from active competition for the past three years, Jones noted that preparing for Gane has not been especially difficult.
“There’s nothing hard about it,” Jones says. “I’m doing what I was born to do: goal-setting and conquering.”
Nonstop speculation over the past decade led to rampant interest in Jones’ long-awaited debut at heavyweight, which is finally happening on March 4. It would have been fascinating to see him match-up against Francis Ngannou, but the versatile Gane will be an interesting test for the 35-year-old Jones.
