Jon Jones thinks getting out his contract with the UFC won\u2019t be as impossible as many believe.<\/p>\n
Jones was in attendance for this past Saturday\u2019s Rousey vs. Carano event and watched Francis Ngannou pick up a first-round knockout victory over Philipe Lins. Jones said after the fight he\u2019d love to get out of his contract<\/a> to fight Ngannou because he knows the UFC would never allow the fight to take place due to their heated relationship with Ngannou.<\/p>\n While the MMA community believes there\u2019s no chance that happens, Jones appears to be confident he can get out of the deal.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t know, I think getting out of my UFC contract is very, very possible,\u201d Jones told Denise White<\/a>. \u201cI need to find the right people, go through my channels, or just put more effort into it.\u201d<\/p>\n Jones informed the UFC of his retirement and vacated the heavyweight title a little less than a year ago, but wanted to return for the UFC White House card. UFC CEO Dana White was clear from day one that he had zero interest in having Jones on the card \u2014 which has led to Jones wondering if he even has a reason to continue<\/a> on with his MMA career.<\/p>\n The former two-division champion says he actually has aspirations to compete out of the cage and in the squared circle.<\/p>\n \u201cI really wanted to box,\u201d Jones said. \u201cIf I were to put all of my energy in my hands, combinations, and punching power, I think I really could surprise a lot of people. I would love to box. That would be a lot of fun.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jon Jones thinks getting out his contract with the UFC won\u2019t be as impossible as many believe. Jones…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-679057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679057","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=679057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}