PFL founder Donn Davis believes Jon Jones would make $50million if he fought Francis Ngannou.
Jones, the UFC heavyweight champion, has been linked to battle the previous king of his division, Ngannou, for a number of years now.
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Nevertheless, he’s at the moment in negotiations with the UFC to unify the heavyweight division in opposition to Britain’s interim champion Tom Aspinall.
Aspinall has already admitted that he has accepted the blockbuster bout with Jones and insists he’s merely ready for the latter to say sure.
Alternatively, Jones has by no means publicly mentioned that he can be open to combating Aspinall, as an alternative calling quite a few instances for a battle with former UFC champion Alex Pereira.
His hopes of that battle have been considerably diminished after Pereira misplaced his gentle heavyweight title to Magomed Ankalaev this month, with a rematch the almost definitely final result for the Brazilian fan-favourite subsequent.
Founder and chairman of the PFL Davis, who oversees UFC’s greatest rival MMA promotion, would don’t have any downside placing collectively a Jones vs Ngannou mega-fight.
His promotion have put strain on UFC CEO Dana White a number of instances to make the battle occur, with PFL CEO Peter Murray saying he was ‘supportive of it’ in an interview with talkSPORT MMA final November.
Now, Davis continues to stir the pot with a put up on social media declaring that Jones might make mouthwatering money for a battle together with his celebrity Ngannou.
“I do know a technique @JonnyBones earns $50m … @francis_ngannou,” Davis wrote on X, tagging each Jones and Ngannou’s profiles within the put up.
“To determine the true MMA Heavyweight Champion and the true P4P #1.
“That might be THE battle of the last decade for MMA followers!”
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Ngannou made his PFL debut two-and-a-half years after leaving the UFC following contract disputes with White and their working relationship has since been torn to shreds.
The pair have gone backwards and forwards a number of instances in public interviews, with White claiming Ngannou was ‘all concerning the cash’ at a Energy Slap occasion again in October.
Ngannou has additionally beforehand asserted that he would not give ‘any significance’ to what White says, including that he believes a number of the time what the UFC boss says ‘can’t make sense.’
Davis’ feedback observe reviews that recommend Jones desires an enormous pay verify and at the very least six months to arrange for a battle with Aspinall.
Again in January, Davis confirmed that Ngannou will battle in boxing and MMA this 12 months, with the previous being the Cameroonian’s precedence, because the monetary alternatives are higher within the squared circle.
“He is contemplating two choices; one boxing, one MMA,” Davis mentioned. “I imagine he’ll field as soon as in 2025 and he’ll do MMA as soon as in 2025.
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“What order can be decided actually by the opponents and the alternatives.
“And we’re fascinated about the identical method. So I feel it is too early to inform. Is it boxing after which MMA? Or MMA then boxing?
“However he’ll do one in every of every in 2025.”
It’s possible the PFL can be working intently with Saudi boxing chief Turku Alalshikh to an appropriate opponent subsequent for Ngannou that will favour his profession within the ring and the cage.
Alalshikh has additionally teased at wanting to place put collectively an enormous cross-over battle between Ngannou and Jones.
Now that the Saudi billionaire, who was the driving power behind each Tyson Fury vs Oleksandr Usyk fights, has linked up with UFC CEO White to kind a brand new boxing promotion, the blockbuster conflict is much more more likely to happen.
Nevertheless, fight sports activities fanatics anticipate Jones to unify the UFC heavyweight division firstly by combating Aspinall.