UFC champ Jon Jones: Cain Velasquez is super fight worthy, Chris Weidman is not

Bloody Elbow 2.0 | Anton Tabuena

For most of 2011 and 2012 a possible “super fight” between UFC Light Heavyweight champ Jon Jones and then UFC Middleweight champ Anderson Silva was much discussed, especially by UFC president Dana White and web sites like Bloody Elbow.

Now that Silva has lost his belt talk has moved on.

In a video interview with Inside MMA Jon Jones says that doesn’t feel that Chris Weidman, the new Middleweight champ, has a sufficiently high profile to merit a super fight against Jones.

Heavyweight champ Cain Velasquez on the other hand, he is super fight material according to Jones. Of course Cain is out with a shoulder injury for most of the coming year and Jones has a busy dance card with a UFC 172 bout against Glover Teixeira and if he wins that a possible rematch against Alexander Gustafsson and then possibly Daniel Cormier.

So what I’m saying here is, don’t hold your breath waiting on a UFC super fight.

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Nate Wilcox

Nate Wilcox is the founding editor of BloodyElbow.com. As such he has hired every editor and writer to work for the site. Wilcox’s writing for BE is known for its emphasis on MMA history, the evolution of fighting techniques and strong opinions. Wilcox developed the SBN MMA consensus rankings which were featured in USA Today from 2009 to 2011. Before founding BE, Wilcox was a political operative working for such figures as Senators John Kerry and Mark Warner and an early political blogger. He is the co-author of Netroots Rising, a history of the political blogosphere from 2003 to 2007. Wilcox also hosts the Let It Roll podcast on music history for the Pantheon Podcast Network.