{"id":3891,"date":"2025-06-22T01:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T01:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/3891\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T01:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T01:31:11","slug":"jon-jones-retires-tom-aspinall-becomes-undisputed-heavyweight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/3891\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Jones retires, Tom Aspinall becomes undisputed heavyweight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC President Dana White dropped major news on Saturday night that changes the look of the heavyweight class. <\/p>\n<p>Jon Jones has retired, making Tom Aspinall UFC\u2019s undisputed heavyweight champion, White announced from Azerbaijan on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJon Jones called us last night and retired. Jon Jones is officially retired,\u201d White said during a press conference. \u201cTom Aspinall is the heavyweight champion of the UFC.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36311502\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20241116UFC309_09472RS.jpg\" alt=\"Jon Jones\" class=\"wp-image-36311502\"  \/>Jon Jones fighting against Stipe Miocic in November 2024. Robert Sabo for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>Jones had not agreed to a fight with Aspinall this year, and White said earlier this week that UFC was ready to move on if something couldn\u2019t get agreed on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know, we\u2019ll see how this thing plays out over the next couple weeks,\u201d White told\u00a0radio host <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jimrome\/status\/1935050582642835901\">Jim Rome<\/a>. \u201cIf we can\u2019t get this fight done, we\u2019ll move on quickly. I said a couple of weeks. We\u2019ll have answers in the next couple [of] weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Aspinall, who taunted Jones in the fall for not facing him, was called out by Jones in November after he beat Stipe Miocic at Madison Square Garden. <\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36311501\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/111324UFC101RM.jpg\" alt=\"Jon Jones\" class=\"wp-image-36311501\"  \/>Jon Jones has retired from UFC. Robert Miller<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s annoying to me and that\u2019s my own personal \u2014 he annoys me,\u201d Jones said of Aspinall then. \u201cI get to you guys, you find it entertaining, but I find him annoying and I just don\u2019t like him and at the end of the day, if I give him the opportunity to fight me, I want to be so compensated \u2014 I want to say it, I want that \u2018f\u2013k you\u2019 money, honestly. That\u2019s just what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to be compensated to the point where if I won or lost, that it really wouldn\u2019t matter,\u201d Jones added.<\/p>\n<p>If Jones, 37, is indeed fully done, his record in UFC will stand at 28-1-0 (1 NC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC President Dana White dropped major news on Saturday night that changes the look of the heavyweight class.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[5191,5192,560,62,5193,552,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-3891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-dana-white","9":"tag-jon-jones","10":"tag-mma","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tom-aspinall","13":"tag-ufc","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114724436952824357","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}