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Jon Jones says he’s radically changed his diet for his upcoming fight with Dominick Reyes — telling TMZ Sports, “About 80% of my meals have gone plant based now.”
The UFC superstar has been a big fan of meat in the past — he even promoted the ButcherBox meat company on his Instagram in 2019.
But Jones tells us he’s switching things up for his UFC 247 fight against Reyes — and decided to cut a bunch of animal protein out of his diet this time around.
“I switched up my diet a little bit, I started eating plant based,” Jones says.
“Cardio feels great, I’m lighter than I normally am. Normally I weigh at least 222 around this time. Right now I’m already 215. So I’m ahead of schedule majorly in my weight cut, which just allows me to focus on happiness and relaxation, and I just feel perfect.”
Jones says he’s laser-focused and ready to fight on Feb. 8 — and is gunning for a highlight reel-style knockout — but as long as he gets the “W,” that’s all that matters.
“It’d be nice to make WorldStarHipHop for some awesome KO, or make TMZ for some awesome KO. But that’s not really my style.”
“I feel like when you go out there and you tell people, ‘I’m gonna knock this guy out right away’ and then you find yourself going into the 4th round and you still haven’t gotten that KO. You start panicking in your head a little bit when your plan is going wrong.”
“To make a meme out of someone is always nice, but people years from now will remember who got the W ultimately.”
