UFC CEO Dana White is adamant that a heavyweight title unification bout between Jon Jones and Tom Aspinall will take place in 2025.
White spoke on the pending status of the arguably biggest fight in the company’s heavyweight history at the UFC Tampa post-fight press conference Saturday.“Yeah, I’ll say 100 percent ,” White said when asked about Jones vs. Aspinall. “100 percent . I think it’s probably the biggest fight in heavyweight history, and it’s massive in the history of the company, too. It’s a big fight.”
White continued: “Jon Jones isn’t afraid to fight anybody, and that’s a fact. The only time anything weird ever happened was when his camp made the goofy decision to not fight Chael Sonnen . But Jon? He’s not the type to turn down fights.”Jon Jones reacts after his TKO victory against Stipe Miocic in the UFC heavyweight championship fight for UFC 309 at Madison Square Garden.
“He’s annoying to me and that’s my own personal — he annoys me,” Jones said of Aspinall, who has taunted Jones for not squaring off with him, after UFC 309 “I get to you guys, you find it entertaining, but I find him annoying and I just don’t like him and at the end of the day, if I give him the opportunity to fight me, I want to be so compensated — I want to say it, I want that ‘f–k you’ money, honestly. That’s just what it is.
“It’s weird,” White said of Jones. “Let me tell you what’s weird about that. So usually, those guys say that s–t behind the scenes and not publicly. Jon says that s–t publicly but not behind the scenes. Jon is a very unique individual to deal with.”UFC President Dana White speaks during the UFC 309 press conference at The Theater at Madison Square Garden on November 14, 2024.“Tom will be different from anyone Jon has fought before,” he said.
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