Pretend for a minute that Turki Alalshikh, the magic man of matchmaking in today’s world of combat sports, wanted to see the fight we never got, Jon Jones versus Francis Ngannou. In fact, no need to pretend at all. Just go check out his cameo appearance on Tuesday’s edition of "Ariel x Ade," where Alalshikh teases that it’s a once-in-a-lifetime fight he’s still interested in trying to make happen.
Absurd, right? That ship has sailed. Ngannou fights in the PFL (every once in a great while), and Jones fights in the UFC (once in an even greater while).