Before his middleweight coronation at UFC 243 on Saturday, Israel Adesanya had been going back-and-forth with light heavyweight champion Jon Jones. “The Last Stylebender” wants the fight to happen in 2021 at the Raiders Stadium in Las Vegas.
A Jones vs. Adesanya matchup is something that does draw some interest. But for former two-division UFC champion Daniel Cormier, the newly-crowned middleweight champion may be running into quite a disadvantage.
“He’s just small,” Cormier said alongside Brett Okamoto during the UFC 243 post-fight show on ESPN. “He’s just small for Jones. Jones is a big guy, and I think people underestimate how big he is when he grabs you because he’s so big up top.