For a person who simply retired, Jon Jones certain is speaking rather a lot about combating once more.
Jones introduced his retirement on June twenty second, relinquishing the UFC heavyweight title after months of hypothesis surrounding a possible struggle with interim champion Tom Aspinall. However the second U.S. president Donald Trump introduced a 4th of July UFC occasion on the garden of the White Home for 2026, “Bones” stated he was again in.
“Combating on the White Home?” he wrote with eyeball emojis. Then half-hour later: “Simply re-entered the [UFC drug] testing pool, that lasted for about two weeks. Figured we’d hold everybody’s choices open.”
That’s led to a complete lot of eye rolling from MMA followers who’ve watched Jones categorical full disinterest in competitors and contempt for the clear hardest problem obtainable to him for the time being, Tom Aspinall.
However actions converse louder than phrases, and Jon is attending to the motion portion of his claims. A brand new clip from Jones’ Instagram exhibits the previous champ coming into a cobwebbed storage gymp alongside coaching accomplice Maurice Inexperienced and his power & conditioning coach Jordan Chavez.
Is Jones actually critical a few comeback? He’s really been fairly constant about what he needed to do: take as a lot day without work between fights as he needs to, and struggle the blokes he needs to. That features names like Alex Pereira, Jamahal Hill, and Derrick Lewis. It doesn’t embrace Tom Aspinall.
Will the UFC be all the way down to pay what Jones needs for fights that aren’t probably the most difficult? Jones was prepared to surrender the belt (once more) to eliminate the expectation that he’ll struggle the best possible just a few instances a 12 months. As long as he’s not bunging up the complete heavyweight division together with his hijinx, we are saying go loopy, outdated “Bones.”
