Jon Jones
‘Formally Retired,’ Dana White Says
Revealed
Jon Jones‘ legendary preventing profession is over.
Dana White introduced arguably the most effective UFC competitor of all-time known as him on Friday evening and let him know he is not going to be preventing once more.
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“Jon Jones known as us final evening and retired,” the UFC honcho stated Saturday. “Jon Jones is formally retired.”
White made it clear Tom Aspinall is now the UFC’s heavyweight champion.
Jones, 37, final fought in November 2024, when he beat Stipe Miocic. It was simply his second-ever tilt at heavyweight — in March of 2023, he received his first match within the division with a formidable first-round victory over Ciryl Gane to take the division’s strap.
Previous to his retirement, he and Aspinall had been anticipated to battle for the correct to be known as the UFC’s true heavyweight champ — although Jon hadn’t been a lot of a fan of the matchup, believing Aspinall hadn’t finished sufficient to earn the correct to step into the Octagon with him.
Jon started his historic UFC profession almost twenty years in the past … when he took on Andre Gusmao at UFC 87 in August 2008. He received the battle by unanimous resolution.
Three years later, he turned the youngest UFC champion ever at simply 23 years outdated — after he beat Mauricio Rua at UFC 128.
He completed his profession with a 28-1 file — along with his solely loss being a controversial disqualification.