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Jon Jones has made the heavyweight division quite interesting, to say the least. The living legend returned to the cage Saturday, successfully defending his UFC heavyweight title against Stipe Miocic in the main event of UFC 309. Now it seems Jones has little to no intention of unifying the belt with interim champion Tom Aspinall, and is calling for a bout against fellow star and light heavyweight champion Alex Pereira. What happens now? Will Jones give in and fight Aspinall, or will he retire from MMA? We discuss and analyze everything surrounding the UFC 309 main event.
Jones wasn’t the only one who made headlines at UFC 309, which also saw Charles Oliveira defeat Michael Chandler in their highly anticipated rematch; Bo Nickal continue his unbeaten run in MMA; Mauricio Ruffy follow up on an impressive UFC debut; and much more. We discuss and highlight some of the other key results outside the UFC 309 main event.
Netflix debuted its first live sports event with a boxing match between popular influencer Jake Paul and 58-year-old former champion Mike Tyson. The event left plenty to discuss – some good, some bad. We react to Paul’s win over Tyson, along with Netflix’s jump into live sports.
To close out the show, we review some of the smaller news items outside the two big weekend events, including the booking of Shavkat Rakmonov vs. Ian Machado Garry, which serves as the new co-main event of UFC 310; the return of Colby Covington, who fills in for Machado Garry to fight Joaquim Buckley in the main event of UFC on ESPN 63 on Dec. 14; and the implementation of the old UFC gloves – sort of.