‘Angry’ Stipe Miocic could KO Jon Jones with ‘one punch’ as he has huge point to prove at UFC 309, says Michael Bisping

STIPE MIOCIC volition person the biggest of axes to grind erstwhile helium faces Jon Jones adjacent weekend.

The erstwhile king of the heavyweights volition bid to extremity Jones’ reign atop of the part a week connected Sunday greeting successful the main lawsuit of UFC 309 astatine Madison Square Garden.

Miocic enters the clash of legends with a immense unreality of uncertainty hanging implicit him owed to his three-and-a-half-year layoff pursuing a vicious KO nonaccomplishment to Francis Ngannou.

The Cleveland clubber’s clip disconnected - coupled with him present being a weathered 42-year-old - has led a ample information of MMA fans and pundits to disregard his chances of handing Jones his archetypal morganatic loss.

Former middleweight champ Michael Bisping knows a happening oregon 2 astir being counted retired arsenic helium wasn’t fixed a anticipation successful hellhole up of his short-notice rubric combat with Luke Rockhold successful June 2016, which helium won via first-round KO.

And 'The Count' believes Miocic volition person a superior bee connected his bonnet travel combat night.

TNT Sports pundit Michael Bisping told SunSport: "I deliberation he's got a spot connected his enarthrosis and I deliberation he's annoyed that he's being truthful overlooked.

"I saw an interrogation helium did yesterday and helium was a antheral of fewer words.

"He usually is anyway, but helium looked precise irritated. And I deliberation that is going to beryllium his mindset, that he's been overlooked and he's been forgotten.

"That he's angry. He's going to travel into this 1 wanting to beryllium a constituent and that's a scary proposition."

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Bisping reckons a disrespected and motivated Miocic could extremity up being the toughest trial of Jones’ Hall-of-Fame career.

He continued: "Stipe Miocic is people the bigger guy, he's the stronger feline and helium hits harder.

"If anyone is going to get knocked retired by 1 punch, it's going to beryllium Jon Jones.

"He besides has the wrestling to halt Jon Jones.

"Look astatine those fights with 'DC' [Daniel Cormier], helium was capable to springiness 'DC' arsenic bully arsenic helium got erstwhile it came to the wrestling department.

"For Stipe, he's going to travel successful aggravated and precise motivated."

Former long-reigning 205lbs champion Jones has lone been a fully-fledged heavyweight for the champion portion of 18 months and is inactive getting utilized to his caller frame.

He is, however, by nary means undersized successful the value class, which faces an uncertain future aft his MSG melee with Miocic.

Although Bisping believes the much "natural" heavyweight successful Miocic could origin him occupation if helium adopts an assertive crippled program from the get-go.

"I deliberation he's going to locomotion Jon Jones down," Bisping predicted. "Or helium should anyway.

"He should enactment him connected the backmost foot.

"Take it to him, usage his physicality, usage his earthy spot and enactment it Jon Jones close from the opening bell.

"And I'm telling you, I deliberation Stipe is gonna spell retired determination and perchance astonishment a batch of people."

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