UFC CEO Dana White shut down Jones’ ambition to fight light heavyweight champion Alex Pereira, which gives Sonnen even more confidence that it’s Aspinall or bust for Jones – even though Jones isn’t sold on fighting Aspinall.

Jones has refused to fight the interim title holder unless he gets the pay rise he wants to take on the challenge.

A UFC insider recently claimed that the MMA promotion has pressed Jon Jones to commit to a potential fight against Tom Aspinall.

Jon Jones isn’t budging when it comes to Tom Aspinall. The UFC heavyweight champion kept his Twitter fingers busy late Thursday evening as he wrote a series of comments dismissing Aspinall—the No. 1 heavyweight in the MMA Fighting Global Rankings and two spots ahead of Jones at No.

UFC play-by-play ace Jon Anik believes a title unification bout between Jon Jones and Tom Aspinall will indeed happen in 2025.

A potential UFC heavyweight title unification bout between Jon Jones and Tom Aspinall got opening betting odds following Jones' title defense over Stipe Miocic at UFC 309

With Jones very much in the Aspinall clan's crosshairs, the acclaimed coach of the UFC interim heavyweight champion gave an appraisal of Jones' display against Miocic at 37 years old.

Jon Jones won his first UFC heavyweight title defense against Stipe Miocic at UFC 309 last Saturday. It was his big comeback after almost two years since winning the title at UFC 285. Jon looked amazing and fought really well.