{"id":127742,"date":"2025-09-08T12:21:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T12:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/127742\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T12:21:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T12:21:06","slug":"jon-jones-still-training-for-white-house-fight-its-up-to-the-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/127742\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Jones still training for White House fight: \u2018It\u2019s up to the boss\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jon Jones busted out the cowboy hat for the MTV Video Music Awards and shared some details of his future on the red carpet.<\/p>\n

Jones hasn\u2019t fought since a November 2024 win over Stipe Miocic, and before that a March 2023 win over Ciryl Gane. The Gane win earned him the vacant UFC heavyweight title, which he defended just once over the 27 months he was the champion.<\/p>\n

He then relinquished the title rather than fight Tom Aspinall for $30 million dollars,<\/a> the second time he\u2019s handed UFC hardware back<\/a> to the promotion. They\u2019re not huge fans of fighters doing that, so \u201cBones\u201d is in the doghouse these days — he says he wants to compete on the big UFC White House card in June, but UFC CEO Dana White has said he doesn\u2019t \u2018trust\u2019 Jones<\/a> with that card.<\/p>\n

Jon is still pushing for it, though.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am not retired, I\u2019m actively training five days a week and I\u2019m in the UFC\u2019s drug testing pool,\u201d Jones said on the VMA red carpet. \u201cI don\u2019t really know [about the White House card], it\u2019s kind of out of my control right now. I\u2019m training for the event, I\u2019ll be ready for the event. That\u2019s my goal. But ultimately, it\u2019s up to the boss.\u201d<\/p>\n

White most recently said the odds were \u201ca billion to one\u201d<\/a> that Jones would fight on the White House card. Maybe those odds get better if Jon steps into the cage and fights sometime early 2026, but we have our doubts we ever see Jones fighting in the octagon again. UFC wants him to fight Aspinall, he doesn\u2019t want to fight Aspinall, and that\u2019s where we really remain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jon Jones busted out the cowboy hat for the MTV Video Music Awards and shared some details of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85,1396],"class_list":{"0":"post-127742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}