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Jon Jones is not talking about his UFC situation anytime soon. For the past year, UFC heavyweight interim champion Tom Aspinall has been trying to book a fight against Jones.
Last week, White spoke about the Jones-Aspinall situation and is adamant that the fight will happen because Jones agreed to do the fiht.
“Jon Jones agreed to do the fight,” White said. “Jon Jones was offered the deal and accepted the deal.”
“It’s Aspinall’s fight,” White said. “I mean, we’ve been talking to this kid forever about it. It’s his fight. Listen, you can’t make people fight. If Jon doesn’t want to fight, we can’t make him fight. We can try to make him fight. We can throw things at him that want to inspire him to fight. We’ll figure it out.”
Aspinall is under the assumption that Jones is retired.
“Jon Jones is retired,” Aspinall said. “I want to say God bless him moving forward in what he does with his life and career. We move on. I’m the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world. I’m ready to take on all comers and get this division moving again.”
On Friday, Jones made an appearance at a Dirty Boxing event in Miami and refused to answer questions about White, Aspinall, or Francis Ngannou.
Jones would joke that he would face off against either Aspinall or Ngannou if they