Linked closely in latest months with a title return in the summertime, Jon Jones is about to name time on his adorned fight sports activities profession following a unification conflict with Tom Aspinall, in the event you ask former opponent of his; Chael Sonnen.
Jones, a former undisputed gentle heavyweight champion twice underneath the banner of the promotion, returned to efficiently defend his heavyweight crown at UFC 309 again in November, welcoming former champion, Stipe Miocic again to the Octagon.
And firmly sending the Ohio veteran into his personal respective retirement, Rochester native, Jones would lay down a one-sided beating to the previous, earlier than delivering a 3rd spherical spinning-back kick TKO win, efficiently defending his portion of the heavyweight crown.
Weighing up a title unification conflict with present interim gold holder and British star, Aspinall in the summertime of this yr, Jones claimed he would solely take into account “f*ck you” cash to return in a high-stakes pairing with the previous.
Jon Jones set to retire for good this yr, in line with Chael Sonnen
And regardless of claiming in latest weeks that he would stack up as a lot money as he might earlier than retiring — which might see him battle twice extra within the Octagon, former title challenger, Sonnen has predicted his previous rival will dangle up his gloves within the rapid aftermath of a battle with Aspinall — no matter consequence.
“If you wanted my boldest prediction of 2025, I’m actually very confident in the prediction and that is that Jon Jones retires,” Chael Sonnen mentioned throughout a latest episode of Good Man/Dangerous Man. “I will tell you that Jon Jones is gonna fight Tom Aspinall. I will tell you Jon’s gonna do a lot better with Tom than some people are giving him credit for, but that’s tomorrow’s discussion. When that fight is done, win or lose, I do believe it will be Jon’s final appearance.”
