{"id":130572,"date":"2025-09-09T16:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T16:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/130572\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T16:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T16:06:10","slug":"chael-sonnen-questions-jon-jones-decision-to-end-his-retirement-if-hes-not-fighting-tom-aspinall-what-are-you-coming-back-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/130572\/","title":{"rendered":"Chael Sonnen questions Jon Jones decision to end his retirement if he\u2019s not fighting Tom Aspinall: \u201cWhat are you coming back for?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sonnen questions Jones once again<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf John says that he\u2019s back and he was never injured, he was never ill\u2026 he just didn\u2019t want to fight Tom Aspinall,\u201d Sonnen said of Jones on Good Guy \/ Bad Guy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the part to me that\u2019s a little bit weird. He\u2019s playing this as though that retirement never happened as opposed to this is a comeback,\u201d Sonnen added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re coming back, what are you coming back for? What is it that you\u2019re coming back to?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd is it just an open slate to admit anything? Anyone except that guy, that guy over there in England\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnybody but him,\u201d Sonnen said of Jones not fighting Aspinall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs that how we\u2019re supposed to interpret this?\u201d Sonnen asked.<\/p>\n<p>Quotes via <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/2025\/09\/08\/ufc-legend-questions-what-jon-jones-is-even-fighting-for-after-pretending-retirement-never-happened\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Bloody Elbow<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do you believe we will ever see this proposed UFC heavyweight title fight take place? Let us know, BJPENN Nation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sonnen questions Jones once again \u201cIf John says that he\u2019s back and he was never injured, he was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-130572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130572","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=130572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}