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Alexander Gustafsson says Jones the best, but ‘The Jon Era is over’ at UFC 232

LAS VEGAS – Since they first met more than five years ago, Alexander Gustafsson and Jon Jones haven’t exactly been the most active of light heavyweights.

Gustafsson (18-4 MMA, 10-4 UFC) has just five fights, and a 3-2 record, since his loss to Jones (21-1 MMA, 16-1 UFC) at UFC 165 in Toronto in September 2013. Jones has just four fights since then – a trio of decision wins and a TKO of Daniel Cormier that was flipped to a no-contest in July 2017 after he failed a second drug test.

Next week at UFC 232, the two finally meet again – and the light heavyweight title again will be on the line. Neither of them holds it, but the winner will have the belt at the conclusion when Cormier, also the heavyweight champ, is stripped of the 205-pound title.

Gustafsson today said this rematch is the fight he’s been training for since their first meeting – and the chance to get a win over Jones is more important to him than the title stakes.

“It’s a little bit of both, of course, but if I have to choose one, it’s the rematch,” Gustafsson today told MMAjunkie at the UFC Performance Institute in Las Vegas. “Fighting Jon Jones again, and it’s been five years since we fought – it’s the fight I’ve been wanting for a long time and dreaming about and training for all this time. All this time, I’ve been training for this fight. This is it. I’m preparing for him. Every session, I’ve prepared for him. That’s the best guy out there, and that’s the guy I’m beating.

“… I can’t want it more than this. It’s a dream fight, and that’s the thing that’s been pushing me the most. I want the biggest fights, fighting the best guys out there, and this is just the highlight. This is it.”

UFC 232 takes place Dec. 29 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The main card airs on pay-per-view following prelims on FS1 and UFC Fight Pass.

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