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Israel Adesanya: Jon Jones is jealous that I’m ‘taking all the shine’ from him

After KO’ing Robert Whittaker this past weekend at UFC 243, newly-crowned middleweight champion Israel Adesanya believes he is the new face of the UFC and that Jon Jones is jealous of his success.

Adesanya wants to defend his middleweight title a few times before moving up in weight to challenge Jones for the light heavyweight title, but ‘Bones’ believes ‘The Last Stylebender’ doesn’t have the confidence to move up in weight so soon.

By the time this kid gets his confidence together I’ll probably already be in the heavyweight division. I don’t need to wait till 2021 to start believing in myself https://t.