On May 25, on the show "Legend" in Moscow there will be two top light heavyweights – the champion of UFC at category to 205 pounds, John Jones, and the perspective Swedish fighter, Alexander Gustafsson who can become the following applicant for a title in a light heavyweight.
Jones and Gustafsson will meet in the Russian capital only tomorrow, but in absentia already managed to exchange courtesies through Twitter.
"The following stop in Moscow! ", - Gustafsson on the page in Twitter reported ten hours ago. "I can't wait that moment when I will meet you in a cage, John Jones!"
"Fight with me won't too well be reflected in your image", - the champion of UFC answered immediately.
It seems that both fighters intend to use a meeting in Moscow as the first stage of promotion of future duel. It is worth noticing that John Jones, answering questions of the Russian journalists unambiguously I let know that wants to see the following rival of the Swede.
"Now I am going to win against Alexander Gustafsson and to break a record by number of title protection in a light heavyweight", - quotes Jones the Russian Blood and Sweat edition. "After that I will meet Anderson Silva or I will pass to heavy weight. Probably, it will occur tomorrow on the Legend tournament"
It is difficult to believe that the meeting takes place in Moscow without the knowledge of UFC management and if to remember Dana White's recent statement that the organization plans to hold event in Russia until the end of the current year, it is possible to assume that in UFC didn't say goodbye yet to plans of expansion for the Russian market of the mixed single combats.
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