{"id":11034,"date":"2011-04-25T12:33:03","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T17:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=11034"},"modified":"2011-04-25T12:33:03","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T17:33:03","slug":"ufc-champ-jon-jones-wont-make-rashad-evans-fight-new-opponent-eyed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2011\/04\/25\/ufc-champ-jon-jones-wont-make-rashad-evans-fight-new-opponent-eyed\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Champ Jon Jones Won&#8217;t Make Rashad Evans Fight, New Opponent Eyed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What had quickly become UFC&#8217;s most-anticipated fight of 2011 will not occur as planned, MMAJunkie reports.<\/p>\n<p>Sources have indicated that UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones has been forced to postpone his scheduled title defense against Rashad Evans due to his right-hand ligament injury.  The uncertainty behind Jones&#8217; recovery time forced the premiere fighting organization to call an audible for the anticipated title match.<\/p>\n<p>According to both MMAJunkie and the Canadian Press, UFC is eyeing Phil Davis as a replacement opponent for Evans.  Davis technically possesses a stronger wrestling background than Jones and has similarly been hyped as a future force at 205, although a lackluster, albeit victorious, performance against Antonio Rogerio Nogueira in his most recent fight led analysts to halt the comparisons to the division&#8217;s prodigy of a champion.<\/p>\n<p>Notable is the fact that the fight with Davis will not be for the UFC Light Heavyweight Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Evans, the division&#8217;s number one contender, took an extended hiatus from fighting to wait for then-champion Mauricio &#8220;Shogun&#8221; Rua to recover from an injury last year.<\/p>\n<p>When &#8220;Shogun&#8221; recovered, the title match was finally set for March 2011, but an unexpected injury to Evans cost him the immediate opportunity and produced Jones as a challenger for the belt.<\/p>\n<p>Jones easily defeated Rua at UFC 128, and based on animosity between the former Team Jackson peers, Evans emerged as the first challenger for Jones&#8217; title.  Evans now takes on a very capable challenger as he continues his quest to reclaim the gold.<\/p>\n<p>MMAJunkie says the Evans-Davis fight is eyed for UFC 133 in August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>UFC Champ Jon Jones Won&#039;t Make Rashad Evans Fight, New Opponent Eyed<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"What had quickly become UFC&#039;s most-anticipated fight of 2011 will not occur as planned, MMAJunkie reports. 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