{"id":626763,"date":"2026-04-25T01:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T01:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/626763\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T01:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T01:40:09","slug":"former-ufc-champion-picks-lesnar-over-jones-in-wrestling-superfight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/626763\/","title":{"rendered":"Former UFC champion Picks Lesnar Over Jones In Wrestling Superfight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Jon Jones may be a heavyweight fighter, but he\u2019s still not big enough to take care of \u201cThe Beast Incarnate\u201d known as Brock Lesnar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">While Jones and Lesnar competed in two separate weight classes when they shared the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) roster there now exists a world in which \u201cBones\u201d and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/latest-news\/438173\/former-ufc-champion-wwe-star-brock-lesnar-retires-after-losing-at-wrestlemania-42\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">former WWE champion<\/a> could meet. That would be on the wrestling mat under the growing banner that is Real American Freestyle (RAF).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Of course, a wrestling superfight between Jones and Lesnar is unlikely to happen anytime soon. That\u2019s because both superstars would need a bankroll that RAF probably doesn\u2019t have and both are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/latest-news\/435313\/for-real-dubious-ufc-legend-jon-jones-claims-hes-officially-done-fighting-again-my-gloves-are-hung-up-video\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">officially retired from combat sports<\/a>. But that doesn\u2019t mean we can\u2019t talk about what would happen if Jones and Lesnar ever tied up on the mat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Earlier this week, former UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman was questioned about the potential matchup and he held no punches. According to \u201cNigerian Nightmare,\u201d Lesnar would be too much for Jones to handle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThis is an outrageous question\u2026who would win? Hypothetically, I would say the sheer size of Brock Lesnar and the way he wrestled,\u201d said Usman during a recent episode of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_vjxO93Xt3M\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pound 4 Pound podcast<\/a> with Henry Cejudo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\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 class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI think Brock Lesnar potentially [wins].\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Jones, who is supremely confident and never one to shy away from a challenge, took to social media to deliver a message to Usman and Lesnar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201c[Kamaru] I\u2019m getting my hand raised against you and Brock in the same night,\u201d said Jones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jon Jones may be a heavyweight fighter, but he\u2019s still not big enough to take care of \u201cThe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,702],"class_list":["post-626763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}