{"id":895182,"date":"2026-09-17T10:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T10:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/895182\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T10:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T10:10:10","slug":"gable-steveson-on-a-jon-jones-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/895182\/","title":{"rendered":"Gable Steveson On A Jon Jones Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-msn-disclosure=\"commission\">This author receives a commission through recommended links in this content. See our <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/affiliate-disclosure\/\" class=\"underline hover:text-bone transition-colors\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">affiliate disclosure<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Gable Steveson thinks a UFC comeback for Jon Jones is possible now that Tom Aspinall has vacated the <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/division\/heavyweight\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">heavyweight<\/a> title due to ongoing eye issues.<\/p>\n<p>Going to the fight?<\/p>\n<p>Crypto.com UFC 331: Van vs Pantoja 2<\/p>\n<p>Crypto.com Arena \u00b7 Los Angeles \u00b7 19 Sept 2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boxingnews.com\/api\/tickets\/click?country=us&amp;target=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ticketmaster.com%2Fsearch%3Fq%3DCrypto.com%2520UFC%2520331%253A%2520Van%2520vs%2520Pantoja%25202&amp;slug=ufc-331-2026-09-19&amp;placement=inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" data-affiliate=\"ticketmaster\" data-tm-country=\"us\" data-tm-direct=\"1\" data-tm-resolved=\"0\" class=\"inline-flex items-center justify-center gap-2 h-10 px-4 rounded-md text-ui-sm font-semibold whitespace-nowrap bg-gold text-ink hover:bg-gold-hot active:bg-gold-deep transition-all duration-jab ease-snap focus-visible:shadow-focus-gold \">Get Tickets\u00b7Ticketmaster<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think Jon would like to come back, also. Maybe seeing this belt open up put another fire into him. Jon&#8217;s my training partner everyday in Albuquerque, so I&#8217;ve seen what he can still do, and I know he can do it at the highest level, and maybe his time will come again, and I think it will,&#8221; Steveson<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf9f\ufe0f Get tickets: <a href=\"http:\/\/boxingnews.com\/api\/tickets\/click?country=us&amp;target=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ticketmaster.com%2Fsearch%3Fq%3DCrypto.com%2520UFC%2520331%253A%2520Van%2520vs%2520Pantoja%25202&amp;slug=ufc-331-2026-09-19&amp;placement=article-body-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" data-affiliate=\"ticketmaster\" data-placement=\"article-body-1\">Buy tickets to Crypto.com UFC 331: Van vs Pantoja 2 on Ticketmaster \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jones retired and relinquished the title in June 2025 rather than defend it against Aspinall, who went on to suffer an eye injury against Ciryl Gane in his first defense, a fight ruled a no contest. With Aspinall now stepping away again after a training setback, Gane is expected to be positioned for the vacant title \u2014 a scenario some believe could draw Jones back, given his quick finish of Gane in 2023. Steveson faces Sean Sharaf this Saturday at UFC 331.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This author receives a commission through recommended links in this content. See our affiliate disclosure. Gable Steveson thinks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":895183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-895182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895182","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=895182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/895183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}