{"id":152101,"date":"2025-09-18T12:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T12:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/152101\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T12:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T12:58:07","slug":"michael-bisping-agrees-with-dana-whites-stance-on-jon-jones-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/152101\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Bisping agrees with Dana White&#8217;s stance on Jon Jones&#8217; return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC commentator Michael Bisping agrees with Dana White regarding Jon Jones potentially not fighting at UFC White House.<\/p>\n<p>For a while now, Jon Jones has been talking about returning to competitive mixed martial arts \u2013 even though it hasn\u2019t been that long since he actually retired. As you can imagine, this led to a lot of raised eyebrows and eye rolls from those within the sport.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/jon-jones\/jon-jones-plans-to-show-dana-white-how-serious-he-is-about-fighting-at-white-house-event\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jon Jones plans to show Dana White \u2018how serious\u2019 he is about fighting at White House event<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even Dana White suggested <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/ufc\/dana-white-reveals-jon-jones-apology-remains-firm-in-ufc-white-house-stance\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on multiple occasions<\/a> that he just can\u2019t trust Jones to follow through with his plan to compete at the UFC\u2019s White House event next year. While a bout between him and Aspinall sounds good on paper, there\u2019s just no way of knowing if Jon is going to make the weight and make the walk.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent video, Michael Bisping explained why he agrees with White\u2019s hesitation over agreeing to work with Jones again.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Bisping agrees with White regarding Jones<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t blame him,\u201d Bisping said of White on his \u201cBelieve You Me\u201d podcast. \u201cYou can\u2019t blame the man. What did he do? He promoted him. He stuck to his guns. \u2018This is the pound-for-pound No. 1.\u2019 They even put that video package out. They gave him the $30 million apparently (to fight Aspinall). I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s true, but apparently that\u2019s the number that\u2019s floating around.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then in the end, he decides to double barrel (middle fingers), go off to Thailand, live his best life, mess everyone around, have Tom Aspinall waiting on the sidelines for bloody God knows how long. Then when a big opportunity like UFC White House comes along, he\u2019s like, \u2018Oh oh oh, hold on, hold on, let\u2019s not be too hasty, I want a piece of that.\u2019 If that was me, I\u2019d say, \u2018Go f*ck yourself.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I was Dana, I would say, \u2018All right, you want to fight on the White House? Prove it,&#8217;\u201d Bisping said. \u201cFight first. You\u2019re a heavyweight, you don\u2019t have to make weight, the (White House) fight\u2019s not going to be until next June.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Quotes via <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie-eu.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2025\/09\/17\/ufc-michael-bisping-dana-white-jon-jones-white-house-trust-issues\/86194795007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">MMA Junkie<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC commentator Michael Bisping agrees with Dana White regarding Jon Jones potentially not fighting at UFC White House.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-152101","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\/152101","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=152101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}