Chael Sonnen isn’t shopping for into Jon Jones‘ declare that he’ll “greater than possible” retire following his long-awaited conflict with Stipe Miocic.
Whereas attending Saturday’s UFC card at Sphere in Las Vegas, ‘Bones’ revealed that his undisputed heavyweight title tilt with Miocic on November 16 could be his “final time” competing contained in the Octagon. With rumors of Jones’ retirement swirling round during the last yr, his remark didn’t come as a lot of a shock. Nevertheless, not everyone seems to be prepared to take ‘Bones’ at his phrase.
Addressing Jones’ touch upon his YouTube channel, the three-time UFC title challenger referred to as bullsh*t on the declare, accusing the consensus GOAT of tacking on the retirement discuss as a advertising and marketing ploy.
“I’m watching this. Oh, Jon has grabbed on to that retirement thought. He didn’t imply it, it was fully insincere, it wasn’t even his thought. Any individual else mentioned it, he heard it, thought it could be good to go together with. And a few totally different causes guys that aren’t going to retire say that they’re going to retire. A pair. One could possibly be, he heard any individual else say it thought it could be good advertising and marketing.
“He by no means comes out and does something to strive for advertising and marketing and he went for it. One other one is simply the identical cause you probably did issues like that once you have been a baby. In order that any individual else would inform, ‘Oh no, hey, whoa, we would like you, you’re nice’” (h/t MMA Information).
Followers Nonetheless Holding Out hope for unification conflict between jon jones and tom Aspinall
Jones, 37, is undeniably within the twilight of his illustrious profession after profitable titles in two totally different weight lessons and amassing a 27-1 file along with his solely loss coming by way of an extremely controversial disqualification. A win over Miocic would possible cement his legacy as the best combined martial artist of all time, however within the eyes of many, Jones will nonetheless have one little bit of unresolved enterprise.
That being present interim heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall.
Since taking dwelling the non permanent title final November by way of a first-round knockout of Sergei Pavlovich, Aspinall has been pushing arduous for a scrap with Jon Jones.
To date, ‘Bones’ and the UFC have remained adamant that Jones will battle Miocic earlier than the rest, however the hope is that Jones will see match to do the correct factor and unify his belt with Aspinall’s, assuming he will get previous Miocic at UFC 309 in Madison Sq. Backyard.
