DFW: Jones vs. Silva ‘not happening anytime soon’
For a long time the biggest superfight fans and media talked about it was Anderson Silva vs. Georges St-Pierre to…
For a long time the biggest superfight fans and media talked about it was Anderson Silva vs. Georges St-Pierre to figure out who the best really was. With Jon Jones’ meteoric rise in 2011, the shift has to been could the 24-yr old wunder kid defeat long-time reigning middleweight champion Anderson Silva?
Silva has twice before moved up to fight in the lightheavyweight division, and done so with great succcess, so it’s not unlikley as the GSP matchup, but at the UFC 140 post-fight press conference, UFC President down played the likelyness of the bout:
But if a potential meeting between Jones and the man White (and most everyone else) considers the top pound-for-pound fighter in the sport, Anderson Silva (31-4 MMA, 14-0 UFC), piques your interest, don’t get carried away.
“I don’t see that fight happening anytime soon,” White said at this weekend’s UFC 140 post-event press conference at Toronto’s Air Canada Centre.
However, White doesn’t feel the timing is right.
“I just think Jon Jones is young,” White said. “He’s 24 years old. He’s just getting out there and fighting all the best in the light heavyweight division.
“What people have to realize, too, is Anderson Silva is 37 years old. They’re in two different weightclasses.”