With the crowning of Jon “Bones” Jones as the new UFC light heavyweight champion, the obvious question is: Who has a chance of beating him? He clearly dominated the former champion Maurico “Shogun” Rua at UFC 128, landing 87 strikes to Rua's 13.

Let’s first start with his next opponent and first defense of his light heavyweight belt.

“Suga” Rashad Evans

“The truth of the matter is that I know how to beat Jon (Jones) and he knows how to beat me ... we are brothers through blood and through sweat and through training,” said Rashad Evans. This is a video of Rashad Evans talking about fighting Jon Jones from MMAheat.com. It's quite funny.

At The Ultimate Fighter 2 finale Rashad Evans fought as a heavyweight taking on a much taller fighter in Brad Imes, who stood 6’7” tall. So Evans fought and has won against a much taller fighter. But Jones isn’t just a taller fighter, he has a combination of reach, speed and unpredictability.

If you look at Rashad Evans' last fight against Quinton “Rampage” Jackson, you could see that it was easy for him to train for that fight. Most mixed martial arts fighters like to have dislike for their opponent. During the taping of The Ultimate Fighter 11, Evans and Rampage had heated exchanges on every episode. And even after the show they talked about each other on the Internet.

So Rashad is once again turning to twitter and the Internet to get into a battle of words with his opponent. The only thing is Jones isn’t falling for Evans' trick.

Jones, a Christian is taking the high road, so this makes Evans look quite foolish. There are several cruel words that you can call a Christian, a hypocrite*, the devil and Judas**. Rashad choose the latter calling Jones, “Judas Jones” for saying he would never fight Evans because they were teammates.

Guess what Rashad?  You said that you wouldn’t fight a teammate as well. But here you are training to fight Jon Jones. Where I’m from, they call that a hypocrite. 

• I give the edge to Jones

*Hypocrite: a person who feigns some desirable or publicly approved attitude, especially one whose private life, opinions, or statements belie his or her public statements.

**Judas: a person treacherous enough to betray a friend; traitor.

Quinton “Rampage” Jackson

Quinton Jackson bring a lot of experience in the octagon, but lately he has shown very little of what we remember of his days with Pride Fight Championship and his earlier fights in the UFC. He has had only one knockout in his last six fights. Also in his last six fights, five of the fights have gone the distance. I don’t see that happening with Jon Jones as his opponent. Rampage had problems with the unorthodox style of Lyoto Machida. I don’t see Rampage doing the one thing that could disrupt Jones’ rhythm. And that is Jones is receptive to front leg kicks. His fighting stance is quite wide and we have not seen him tested with a good soccer style leg kick. If you kick his front leg, you must be ready to block his long jab or be ready to take him down. I thought Maurico “Shogun” Rua would try an attack his leg but it looked as though the fight was won before it had begun (that’s my opinion for another blog post).

• I give the edge to Jones