{"id":598601,"date":"2026-04-10T20:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T20:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/598601\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T20:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T20:33:09","slug":"jon-jones-makes-definitive-statement-on-ufc-comeback-after-dana-white-fallout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/598601\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Jones makes definitive statement on UFC comeback after Dana White fallout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former two-division UFC champion Jon Jones made possibly his most revealing statement yet about his fighting future.<\/p>\n<p>After months of lobbying for a spot on the upcoming White House card, UFC legend Jon Jones was left off the event entirely, after repeatedly being publicly shut down by UFC CEO Dana White. Jones\u2019 recent admission that he suffers from severe hip arthritis seemed to be the final nail in the coffin for the UFC\u2019s plans for Jones.<\/p>\n<p>Jones then came out publicly and accused White and the UFC matchmakers of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/jon-jones\/jon-jones-responds-francis-ngannou-public-defense-ufc-lowball-offer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018lowballing\u2019 him in contract negotiations<\/a>. As he shared in numerous social media posts, Jones alleged he asked for more than $15 million to fight on the upcoming White House card, but the UFC wasn\u2019t willing to budge past his desired figure.<\/p>\n<p>Since the UFC Freedom 250 fallout, Jones has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/jon-jones\/jon-jones-asks-ufc-release-lengthy-statement-ufc-white-house-exclusion\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">publicly called for his release<\/a> from the promotion, although as of this writing, no move has been made by the UFC brass. Some fans and pundits remain hopeful that Jones will eventually come to terms with White and the UFC for a potential comeback fight against either Alex Pereira or Tom Aspinall.<\/p>\n<p>Those hopes were seemingly shut down by Jones himself in a recent admission.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Jones says he\u2019s \u2018hung up the gloves\u2019 in revealing statement after UFC feud<\/p>\n<p>In a recent Vlog filmed by <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/3YTXwVmgo6k?si=lp4UzgVHGyFgZdjE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Red Corner MMA<\/a>, Jones made a revealing statement on his potential return to MMA after his recent fallout with the UFC.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy gloves are hung up, I\u2019m chilling these days,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have \u2018Business Jon Jones\u2019, no more fighter Jon Jones. The businessman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If Jones is done with fighting for good, the former UFC heavyweight champion will turn his attention towards the growth of top protege Gable Steveson, who could be signed by the UFC later this year. Steveson, an Olympic gold medalist in freestyle wrestling, is unbeaten in his young MMA career.<\/p>\n<p>Will Jon Jones ever fight again? Let us know your predictions in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former two-division UFC champion Jon Jones made possibly his most revealing statement yet about his fighting future. After&hellip;\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":{"0":"post-598601","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-dana-white","11":"tag-fighting","12":"tag-jon-jones","13":"tag-mma","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-ufc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598601","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=598601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598601\/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=598601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}