Undisputed UFC heavyweight champion, Jon Jones has reacted to fan outrage after he dropped the largest trace but on his impending retirement from the game, forward of an anticipated struggle with former division champion, Stipe Miocic.
Jones, a former two-time undisputed mild heavyweight champion, returned from a three-year Octagon hiatus again in March of this yr in the primary occasion of UFC 285.
Minting himself because the undisputed heavyweight champion, Jones managed to clinch the vacant heavyweight crown with a spectacular first spherical guillotine choke win over former interim titleholder, Cyril Gane.
Linked with an instantaneous combating return in the primary occasion of UFC 290 throughout Worldwide Struggle Week in July of this summer time, Jones’ comeback and anticipated title protection in opposition to the returning Miocic has been placed on skids, in line with UFC boss, Dana White.
Offering an replace on his combating future throughout final weekend’s broadcast of UFC Struggle Night time Kansas Metropolis, Jones hinted at a showdown with Miocic at an annual Madison Sq. Backyard occasion for the UFC later this yr.
Jon Jones anticipated to headline MSG occasion later this yr in UFC return
Instantly sending followers and followers of his into raptures along with his slew of tweets, notably, onlookers questioned Jones on the mentioning of an incoming retirement from the game – warranting a response from the Endicott native.
“OK my dangerous, I’ll preserve combating,” Jon Jones tweeted in response to a Twitter person who requested him to rethink a retirement.
Addressing Jones’ combating future on the heavyweight restrict, UFC chief, White, confirmed that the group deliberate to area a championship struggle between the previous and the returning, Miocic within the ‘Large Apple’ later this annum.
“So far as I do know, every thing is sweet and hopefully we’ve a struggle with him (Jon Jones) and Stipe (Miocic) very quickly,” Dana White informed assembled media following UFC Struggle Night time Kansas Metropolis. “That’s the place we’d love to do it [Madison Square Garden].”
“That was completely blown out of proportion,” White defined. “That is what you guys do. I say one thing, you blow it manner out of proportion. I stated all of the build-up and the leadup to that struggle [with Gane], all this Jon Jones (protection), then poof – he’s simply gone. Then I don’t know what Stipe stated, then it turns into f*cking drama. There’s no drama right here.”
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