{"id":286269,"date":"2025-11-15T13:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T13:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/286269\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T13:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T13:53:08","slug":"ufc-white-house-bound-dana-white-accepts-jon-jones-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/286269\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC White House Bound? Dana White Accepts Jon Jones\u2019 Apology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Jon Jones may be White House bound after all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Earlier this month, the former UFC heavyweight champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-white-house-2026-fight-card-start-time-full-results-dana-white-conor-mcgregor-cbs-mma\/400952\/apologetic-jon-jones-regrets-how-tom-aspinall-fight-fell-apart-hopes-to-make-peace-with-dana-white-i-was-wrong\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">offered up an apology<\/a> to UFC CEO Dana White for the way things went down while trying to book a superfight against Tom Aspinall. Jones was the biggest stick in the mud during that whole process and eventually pulled the plug on his own career with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/6\/21\/24453444\/breaking-dana-white-jon-jones-retired-tom-aspinall-now-ufc-undisputed-heavyweight-champion\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">surprise retirement<\/a> (event though that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/7\/4\/24461758\/retirement-over-jon-jones-announces-has-re-entered-ufc-testing-pool-that-lasted-for-about-two-weeks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lasted just a few weeks<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Jones, who hasn\u2019t competed since a TKO win over Stipe Miocic back in Nov. 2024, is doing everything he can to get under the good graces of the promotion to try to land a spot on UFC\u2019s upcoming White House card in 2026. White has already said that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/7\/20\/24470829\/denied-dana-white-rejects-jon-jones-fighting-at-ufc-white-house-cant-risk-putting-him-in-a-big-spot\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he can\u2019t trust Jones<\/a> to actually show up and fight given the issues they had trying to book the Aspinall fight, but that hasn\u2019t stopped \u201cBones\u201d from asking for forgiveness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">White, who has always stuck up for Jones as being the best fighter of all time, was asked about Jones\u2019 recent apology in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0NJ6RVzr-OA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TMZ Sports<\/a> and is more than ready to bury the hatchet. Fight fans don\u2019t know if that will lead to Jones fighting on UFC\u2019s White House card or not, but it\u2019s a good start.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cAbsolutely\u201d said White when asked if he has accepted Jones\u2019 apology. \u201cHe doesn\u2019t need to apologize to me for anything. Even through all of the bad stuff that me and Jon have gone through I still say that Jon Jones is the greatest of all time because it\u2019s a fact.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cEverybody starts laughing when I say it. Jon Jones is the greatest of all time. Period. End of story. I know it and everybody else knows it. So there\u2019s nothing for Jon to apologize for. Dealing with Jon over the last however many years has been a unique experience, but it doesn\u2019t change the fact that he\u2019s the best ever.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jon Jones may be White House bound after all. Earlier this month, the former UFC heavyweight champion offered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,125620],"class_list":{"0":"post-286269","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286269","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=286269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}