{"id":626606,"date":"2026-04-23T22:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/626606\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T22:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:23:09","slug":"ufc-legend-predicts-brock-lesnar-defeats-heavyweight-jon-jones-in-hypothetical-matchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/626606\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC legend predicts Brock Lesnar defeats heavyweight Jon Jones in hypothetical matchup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A UFC legend believes former heavyweight champ Brock Lesnar would get the upper hand on Jon Jones if they met in an RAF wrestling match.<\/p>\n<p>Former UFC heavyweight champion Jon Jones remains at odds with the promotional brass over his exclusion from the upcoming White House card. After last-minute negotiations between Jones and the matchmakers fizzled, Jones <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/jon-jones\/jon-jones-definitive-statement-ufc-comeback-dana-white-fallout\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">publicly asked for his release<\/a> and has traded barbs with UFC CEO Dana White.<\/p>\n<p>Jones is considered one of, if not the greatest, fighters in UFC history. He\u2019s one of several UFC stars to win titles in multiple divisions.<\/p>\n<p>Long before Jones made the full-time move to heavyweight, he was linked to a potential showdown with former UFC heavyweight champ and WWE legend Brock Lesnar. But a fight never materialized after Lesnar\u2019s UFC return at UFC 200, and a potential matchup between them in the cage is highly unlikely.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s still another route to a potential Jones vs. Lesnar showdown in the upstart Real American Freestyle wrestling promotion. If the matchup were to come to fruition on the mats, one UFC legend believes Lesnar would get the upper hand.<\/p>\n<p>Kamaru Usman sides with Brock Lesnar over Jon Jones in hypothetical wrestling match<\/p>\n<p>In a recent episode of the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_vjxO93Xt3M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> Pound 4 Pound<\/a> podcast, former UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman was asked to predict a hypothetical Lesnar vs. Jones wrestling match in Real American Freestyle.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an outrageous question\u2026who would win? Hypthetically, I would say the sheer size of Brock Lesnar and the way he wrestled,\u201d Usman said of Lesnar vs. Jones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrock Lesnar wasn\u2019t necessarily a guy ripping shots all the time, but he could wear guys down\u2026Brock would be a bit more offensive, and trying to get a guy of that size down multiple times? I just don\u2019t see it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Brock Lesnar potentially [wins].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lesnar won gold at the 2000 NCAA Division I wrestling national championship at the University of Minnesota. Before transitioning to Mixed Martial Arts, Jones was a decorated wrestler, winning titles at Iowa Central Community College.<\/p>\n<p>How would a prime Brock Lesnar vs. prime Jon Jones fight play out? Let us know your predictions in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A UFC legend believes former heavyweight champ Brock Lesnar would get the upper hand on Jon Jones if&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,30513,786,11877,61175,785,85,787],"class_list":{"0":"post-626606","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-brock-lesnar","11":"tag-fighting","12":"tag-jon-jones","13":"tag-kamaru-usman","14":"tag-mma","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-ufc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}