Weidman: I’m not leaving without fighting Jones
Chris Weidman: “Unless he’s not coming back at all. But if he’s there, and I’m here, people are going to want to see it happen. And I want to see it happen.”
Today UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman appeared on the MMA Hour and reconfirmed his desire to one day fight Jon Jones:
“I know for a fact, I’m not leaving this sport without fighting Jon,” Weidman said Monday on The MMA Hour. “Unless he’s not coming back at all. But if he’s there, and I’m here, people are going to want to see it happen. And I want to see it happen.”
“That’s nothing against Jon,” Weidman said. “It’s just because I’m a competitor. I want to fight the best possible people. I want to have the biggest challenges in front of me and conquer them.
“That’s why I wanted to fight Anderson Silva when nobody else wanted to fight him. I want the biggest challenges. I want to beat people who people think I can’t beat. And Jon is definitely going to be one of those guys.”