Dana White comes in the idea that Alex Pereira is going to heavyweight.
The UFC -CEO has essentially excluded a crossover between 'Poatan' and Oleksandr Usyk.
However, he is open to making another super fight when his light heavyweight champion Magomed Ankalaev beats at UFC 313 in Las Vegas on Saturday evening.
Firstly, Dana White is aimed at getting a heavyweight unification between Jones and Tom Aspinall over the line.
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Dana White teases Alex Pereira Heavyweight Movement
White held various interviews on Wednesday to promote his new boxing company and UFC 313.
Of course he was also asked to give an update about Jon Jones and his future with MMA's Premier League, who looks fruitful, because the heavyweight champion is expected to return to action this summer.
Provided that he comes through Aspinall, 'Bones' could be well linked to Pereira later this year.
“Yes, the plan is to fight Jon this summer,” White told Jim Rome.
“Of course, when, where and all that stuff is determined.
“My goal is to make that [Aspinall] fight. “
'Let's see how this [UFC 313] Vecht is set. If he wins and how he wins.
“The fight that everyone wants to see now is Jones and Aspinall.
“There is no doubt that Pereira could fight against the winner.”
Alex Pereira excludes training with Jon Jones
Last September Pereira and Jones agreed to train together after a meeting at UFC 306.
Since then, the chance that the two MMA super stars fight has drastically increased.
With a potential collision on the horizon, Pereira has withdrawn his offer to train with Jones.
“To be honest, I don't think that's so much more useful,” Pereira told Bloody Elbow.
“When I said I would like to fight for heavyweight people who have already put together the dots and in fact called Jon Jones.
“So that is something that is speculated, even if it is only by the fans. So I would not want to train with him now, and if we eventually fight, people will eventually say a lot of things about anything in the fight.
“So I think it would not be logical now, but if we were fighting one day and then training, I think it would be totally logical.”
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