The best ever? Jones, 修道女s could make 事例／患者s at UFC 239
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Any 試みる／企てる to choose the most 支配的な active 闘士，戦闘機 in mixed 戦争の arts 必然的に leads to a choice between two 支持する／優勝者s: Jon Jones or Amanda 修道女s.
Any discussion of the greatest 闘士，戦闘機s in MMA history must 含む Jones and 修道女s 同様に. They 簡単に have been too good for too long - and beaten too many fellow 巨大（な）s of the sport - to be left out.
When they fight on the same card Saturday night in Las Vegas, the 共同の showcase 供給するs an 適切な時期 for fans to see greatness at its possible 頂点（に達する）. UFC 239 is also another chance to see whether Jones or 修道女s will finally 落ちる from the perches they have 占領するd for so long 頂上に MMA.
"It only takes one fight, one punch, one slip to change a lot of things," Jones said this week.
権利 before Jones (24-1, 1 no-contest) defends his light heavyweight 肩書を与える against Brazil's Thiago Santos (21-6) in the main event at T-動きやすい 円形競技場, 修道女s (17-4) 直面するs former 支持する／優勝者 Holly Holm (12-4) in the fourth 弁護 of her bantamweight belt.
While Jones and 修道女s are both 好意d to 勝利，勝つ, their matchups come with 重要な worries. Both 挑戦者s overcame major 障害s 簡単に to reach this 行う／開催する／段階, and they're ありそうもない to be daunted by the aura of the 広大な／多数の／重要なs standing across from them.
FILE - In this March 1, 2019, とじ込み／提出する photo, Jon Jones 提起する／ポーズをとるs during the 儀式の UFC 235 mixed 戦争の arts 重さを計る-in event in Las Vegas. Jones defends his light heavyweight 肩書を与える against Thiago Santos, of Brazil, in the main event of UFC 239 at T-動きやすい 円形競技場 in Las Vegas on Saturday night, July 6, 2019. (Erik Verduzco/Las Vegas Review-定期刊行物 経由で AP, とじ込み／提出する)
"He has a lot of 広大な／多数の／重要な 業績／成就s, but he's just a man like me," Santos said. "I know what we need to do to （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 him."
Santos was a middleweight いっそう少なく than a year ago, but he moved up to light heavyweight last September and 敏速に knocked out three straight 対抗者s to earn this 肩書を与える 発射. His 8?-インチ reach disadvantage against Jones could be his biggest 障害, because Jones knows how to use his oversized でっちあげる，人を罪に陥れる to 十分な advantage against any 対抗者.
Santos is an 極端に muscular light heavyweight, and he likely has more raw punching 力／強力にする than anyone Jones has 直面するd recently. The champ is 適切な 用心深い of the prospect of an 早期に ノックアウト.
There also is the small 可能性 of 疲労，（軍の）雑役 becoming a factor. Jones, who turns 32 later this month, is in his third fight in just over six months. He is still making up for the lost time and income of his late 20s, when he managed to be 適格の for just four fights in a five-year （期間が）わたる まっただ中に 非常に／多数の failed 麻薬ing 実験（する）s and outside-the-cage misbehavior.
"It's a really good story, I know," Jones said. "It has its 演劇, and I'm hoping it has a happy ending."
修道女s is fighting for the first time since she became a two-分割 支持する／優勝者 with her 素晴らしい 51-second ノックアウト of Cris "Cyborg" Justino. Although Holm has lost four of her last six fights, she got this 肩書を与える 発射 on the strength of her talent and the fame that still ぐずぐず残るs from her shocking upset of Ronda Rousey nearly four years ago.
Holm was a professional boxer for years, but 修道女s is a formidable puncher who easily 派遣（する）d the 積極的な Cyborg. Holm isn't likely to wade into an imme diate brawl, as Cyborg did, and her kickboxing acumen is likely to 軍隊 修道女s to be more 患者.
But 修道女s has shown the discipline and mental toughness to stick to a game 計画（する）, and Holm will be 軍隊d to be resourceful.
"I'm ready for anything she can bring to me," 修道女s said. "We've 熟考する／考慮するd her, but more important, I know what I need to do. I've been here before."
The two 肩書を与える fights are just the main attractions on a 星／主役にする-studded card for the UFC's 年次の International Fight Week 支払う／賃金-per-見解（をとる） show. Here are more things to know about UFC 239:
SHUT HIM UP: The biggest personal grudge on the card is between unbeaten welterweight Ben Askren and 退役軍人 挑戦者 Jorge Masvidal. They have 交流d 侮辱s throughout the 昇進／宣伝 of a fight that's likely to lead to a 肩書を与える 発射 for the 勝利者. "In all my fights, I've never had this many people come up to me and beg me to end a guy," Masvidal said. "I had somebody ask me to turn his 直面する into a sinkhole, to leave one 味方する of his 直面する no longer looking like the other 味方する."
RETURN OF THE ROCK: Former middleweight champ Luke Rockhold makes his light heavyweight debut in his return from a 17-month absence against Poland's Jan Blachowicz. Rockhold believes he can easily （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 almost anyone at 205 続けざまに猛撃するs, but Blachowicz is a powerful puncher.
GO DIEGO GO: UFC 退役軍人 Diego Sanchez has been in rare form before his 対決 with Michael Chiesa, cutting 格闘するing-style promos and theatrically 星／主役にするing 負かす／撃墜する his 対抗者 at every 適切な時期. The brawl-loving Sanchez is rarely in a boring fight, but Chiesa has looked dangerous with his move to welterweight.
GILBACK: Gilbert Melendez hasn't won a fight since October 2013, but the loquacious 37-year-old 退役軍人 returns from a 22-month absence to fight Arnold Allen in the final 予選 一区切り／（ボクシングなどの）試合 on ESPN before the 支払う／賃金-per-見解（をとる） show begins.
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FILE - In this May 13, 2018, とじ込み／提出する photo, Amanda 修道女s, 権利, from Brazil, celebrates after 敗北・負かすing Raquel Pennington, from the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs, in a UFC women's bantamweight mixed 戦争の arts 一区切り／（ボクシングなどの）試合 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 修道女s defends her bantamweight 肩書を与える against former 支持する／優勝者 Holly Holm on Saturday night, July 6, 2019, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, とじ込み／提出する)
