Jon
Jones plans on staying prepared for the UFC White Home card. |
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Jon
Jones isn’t fazed by extraordinarily lengthy odds.
Whereas
UFC CEO Dana White has repeatedly dismissed the possbility of
Jones participating within the promotion’s highly-anticipated card on the
White Home subsequent 12 months, “Bones” received’t surrender on the dream. Most
lately, White
set the chances at a “billion-to-one” that Jones would have a
place on the occasion.
“Regardless of the chances, I’m nonetheless coaching and optimistic in regards to the
risk of being a part of the White Home occasion,” Jones wrote on
X. “On the finish of the day, Dana is the boss and it’s his name
whether or not I compete that evening or not. I do know Dana was actually
excited in regards to the combat, and the door hasn’t been utterly
closed. That’s all a man like me actually wants. It appears like
one other superior objective to be impressed by.
“Typically in life, we’re not going to succeed in every little thing we set out
to do and that’s okay. However I like my probabilities… in spite of everything, one in a
billion is strictly what it took to finish up as Jon ‘Bones’ Jones in
the primary place.”
Regardless of the chances, I’m nonetheless coaching and
optimistic about the potential of being a part of the White Home
occasion. On the finish of the day, Dana is the boss and it’s his name
whether or not I compete that evening or not. I do know Dana was actually
excited in regards to the combat, and the door hasn’t…— Jonny Meat (@JonnyBones)
August 18, 2025
Though White assured {that a} title unification bout between
Jones and Tom
Aspinall would occur in 2025, “Bones” elected to retire in
June. Nevertheless, he re-rentered the drug-testing pool two weeks later
when President Donald Trumph introduced plans to carry a UFC card at
the White Home to rejoice the 250th anniversary of the United
States.
Jones, White Have Distinction of Opinion on UFC White Home
Card
For probably the most half, White has balked when requested to have interaction in any
potential matchmaking for the occasion, which may happen on July
4, 2026 — a Saturday. That tone adjustments when discussing Jones,
whose historical past has included quite a few run-ins with the legislation —
together with a
cost of fleeing the scene of an accident in February — as
effectively as various failed drug checks.
“Let me ask you, what do you suppose Jon would do within the subsequent couple
of months that will make me belief placing him on the White Home
card?” White mentioned on Saturday evening. “So I already mentioned that I
don’t belief him, and also you’re asking me what may he do for me to
belief him within the subsequent three months? You don’t belief him! I don’t
speak to him both. I haven’t talked to him in any respect. If I needed to
make odds, it’s a billion-to-one that I put Jon Jones on the White
Home card.”
