{"id":508328,"date":"2026-03-01T23:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T23:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/508328\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T23:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T23:41:08","slug":"jon-jones-confirms-talks-to-fight-at-ufc-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/508328\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Jones Confirms Talks to Fight at UFC White House"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a whole saga, if both new reports and Jon Jones<\/a>‘ word hold, Jones will get his wish of competing at the UFC White House<\/a> event.<\/p>\n

A report from Ariel Helwani<\/a> approximately 24 hours ago claimed that Alex Pereira<\/a>‘s vacating of the UFC light heavyweight championship is due to him moving up to heavyweight. And with that, talks of a bout between him and Jones to serve as the UFC White House<\/a> main event have been held.<\/p>\n

Hours following Helwani’s report, at a meet and greet at The Brook Casino in New Hampshire, Jones confirmed that he and the UFC have had discussions about competing at the White House.<\/p>\n

“I’m in negotiations with the UFC about this White House [fight] as well,” said Jones. “I’m a very proud American, and I cannot wait to represent one more time.”<\/p>\n

Jones was one of the earliest names who spoke up<\/a> last summer when U.S. President Donald Trump first hinted at a UFC event taking place on the lawn of the White House.<\/p>\n

It had been just two weeks since Jones retired from the UFC, vacating the UFC heavyweight championship, which was then given to then-interim champion Tom Aspinall. Before the White House card announcement, it appeared to be the end of a year-plus-long saga of negotiations between Jones, Aspinall, and the UFC.<\/p>\n

UFC CEO and President Dana White has previously been on the record stating that he considers Jones vs. Aspinall as a “dream main event” for the card<\/a>, but that he couldn’t trust Jones with the main event slot of the card<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jones returned to the UFC after a three-year layoff at UFC 285, defeating Ciryl Gane<\/a> for the then-vacant heavyweight championship. He’s fought just once since, retaining the belt against Stipe Miocic at UFC 309.<\/p>\n

White has promised recently that fights for the White House card will be revealed in the coming days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a whole saga, if both new reports and Jon Jones‘ word hold, Jones will get his wish…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[11038,49,48,14893,641,1866,638,82,25831],"class_list":{"0":"post-508328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-alex-pereira","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-ciryl-gane","12":"tag-fighting","13":"tag-jon-jones","14":"tag-mma","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-ufc-white-house"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}