ALF Global<\/a> in an interview released Tuesday \u2014 but recorded prior to that event \u2014 he sees the Brazilian striker as a favorable match-up style-wise.<\/p>\n\u201cI watched Pereira train,\u201d Jones said. \u201cI see his level of wrestling and it\u2019s way behind. I feel as if Stipe Miocic is a true heavyweight. He\u2019s a big, big boy. Ciryl Gane, when you see him in person, he\u2019s a big, big boy. Alex Pereira is not a big, big boy. He\u2019s a lean guy. I think right now he weighs maybe 250.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pereira weighed in at 251 pounds for his title bout with Gane in June, a fight he lost via second-round knockout.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel as if my physical strength would have been too much for him,\u201d Jones said. \u201cI felt as if the moment I would have gotten him to the ground, my submissions would have come pretty quickly. I mean, everyone knows that. I think that\u2019s the clearest path to victory for me against Alex Pereira. But we\u2019re not fighting. I am a fan of him. I support him, and I want to see him do well.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I would have beat DC in a wrestling match,\u201d Jones said. \u201cIt wouldn\u2019t be easy, but I think I would beat him in wrestling. I hear that he has problems with his back, so my strategy would be to just try to wear on him. Not shoot, not go for the takedown, but just hand fight, hand fight, hand fight, and see if I could wear on that back.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jon Jones believes he would not need much time to beat Alex Pereira in an MMA fight, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":829490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-829489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829489","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=829489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}