Dana White: “Jon Jones was offered the agreement and accepted the agreement” to fight Tom Aspinall

There may be a little hope after all in the endless saga between the heavyweight champions of the UFC Jon Jones and Tom Aspinall.

The MMA community as a whole has apparently tired of the long expectation that Jones and Aspinall have their confrontation of the long -awaited title unification, so much so that An online petition changes.org to strip jones of its UFC heavyweight title was created and signed by nearly 200,000 people, just to finally go from the fight for teasing.

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To make things more frustrating, Jones continued to Troll the situation tirelessly on social networks In the past few weeks. But speaking Saturday after the UFC 316 in Newark, New Jersey, the CEO of the UFC, Dana White, said that he was not kept that the current heavy goods vehicle is launching itself.

“I say (the Aspinall fight will occur) from the start, and Jon Jones has agreed to fight (against Aspinall),” said White. “Jon Jones was offered the agreement and accepted the agreement.

“Unless you hear that it comes from (my mouth) or we have published a press release, do not believe these bulls ***. Unless we come out and say something, these are all bulls ***. … But yes, Jon agreed to fight Tom, done.”

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The absence of Jones becomes so prolonged that he closes by doing bizarre history as the long -term UFC heavyweight champion of all time, despite defending the title only since he won it against Ciryl Gane in March 2023. Among his last social media messages was comments on the fact of not worrying if he got into the title and criticized the interim champion aspinall. Jones, 37, even went so far as to suggest that he is more interested in a previously missed fight with Francis Ngannou de PFL than Aspinall.

White admitted to having been transmitted the aforementioned petition to strip Jones of the Belt by “Every Human on Earth”, but did not follow the latest ventilations of Jones.

“F *** Ing Fou,” reacts White. “I am busy, I did not follow the gossip. (Jones) returns today or returned yesterday – he was in Thailand, so he is at home (now). We will be at home this evening, and Tuesday, we will discover it. Tom Aspinall is the guy.

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“Listen, if the guy wants to retire and don’t want to fight, (there is not) that you can do.

Regarding Ngannou, this is a door that whites have apparently slammed in the years since Ngannou left the UFC as heavy goods vehicles in 2023. The boss of the UFC is not receptive to entertain even the concept of Jones against Jones.

“This is Aspinall’s fight. We talked about this child forever,” said White.

“You can’t make people fight. If Jon doesn’t want to fight, we can’t make him fight. We can try to make him fight. We can throw him things that have inspired him to want to fight. But we will understand him.”