X<\/a>, Jones issued a lengthy statement on being left out of the UFC White House card and publicly called for a swift divorce from the promotion.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\u201cHey everyone, I wanted to address Dana White\u2019s comments from this past weekend, because the truth matters to me and the fans. Dana, you were heated about why I\u2019m not on the White House card, but let\u2019s clear something up. My team and I were actually negotiating with the UFC for that fight. Real negotiations. I even came down from my original number, and what was I offered in return? I was lowballed,\u201d Jones said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, I have arthritis in my hip and it\u2019s painful, but that doesn\u2019t mean I can\u2019t fight.
So let me get this straight, if I had accepted the lowball offer, suddenly my hip would be fine and I\u2019d be on the White House card? That doesn\u2019t make sense. I even received stem cell treatment last week to get ready for the White House card, and training camp was scheduled to start today. I was preparing to be ready. I understand business deals fall through sometimes, but going out publicly and saying things that aren\u2019t true isn\u2019t right.<\/p>\n
After everything I\u2019ve given to the UFC , the years, the title defenses, the fights , hearing that I\u2019m \u201cdone\u201d is disappointing,\u201d Jones continued. \u201cEspecially when as recently as Friday UFC was calling me trying to get me on that White House card for a much lower number.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf the UFC truly feels like I\u2019m done, then I respectfully ask to be released from my contract today. No more spins, no more games. Thank you to the real fans who know what\u2019s up. Bones out.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jones announced his UFC retirement last year after prolonged negotiations with the promotion to fight Aspinall in a heavyweight title unification bout. He hasn\u2019t fought in MMA since defeating Stipe Miocic at UFC 309.<\/p>\n
What is your reaction to Jon Jones\u2019s statement? Let us know in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former two-division UFC champion Jon Jones\u2019 relationship with Dana White and the brass has hit a new low…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,958,786,11877,785,85,787],"class_list":["post-529690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-dana-white","tag-fighting","tag-jon-jones","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529690","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=529690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}