{"id":267746,"date":"2025-11-07T01:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T01:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/267746\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T01:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T01:24:08","slug":"jon-jones-admits-guilt-over-tom-aspinall-fight-fallout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/267746\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Jones Admits Guilt Over Tom Aspinall Fight Fallout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Now, Jones himself is admitting that the fallout was his fault. In a recent appearance on the No Scripts podcast, the two-division champion expressed regret for how everything unfolded and said he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/7\/21\/24471353\/jon-jones-a-little-disappointed-after-dana-white-turns-down-white-house-fight-offer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hopes to reconcile with White<\/a> \u2014 especially as he eyes a spot on next year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/7\/10\/24465431\/dana-white-says-ufc-white-house-will-be-the-baddest-card-of-all-time-but-no-tickets-will-be-sold\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">historic UFC White House event<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cMy most immediate goal is to try and get on the White House card,\u201d Jones said. \u201cI\u2019m giving Dana his space. Dana has changed my life and my children\u2019s lives. I\u2019m forever grateful to him. We had a verbal agreement [to fight Aspinall] that didn\u2019t go over well \u2014 nothing was finalized. I do admit guilt, I was wrong. The way things went down, I wish I could see him face-to-face and apologize to him so that we can let bygones be bygones and get back to making some major money for the sport and entertaining the fans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Jones added with a laugh, \u201cWhen he\u2019s feeling me, I\u2019m probably one of his favorite fighters. When he\u2019s not, I\u2019m probably the reason he has a bald head.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now, Jones himself is admitting that the fallout was his fault. In a recent appearance on the No&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,125620,14855],"class_list":{"0":"post-267746","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-latest-ufc-mma-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc-news","15":"tag-ufc-white-house-2026","16":"tag-videos"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267746","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=267746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}