UFC Heavyweight Champion Jones responded to a petition with thousands of signatures that asked him to be stripped of his title.
The heavyweight title collision that everyone wants between Jones and interim title holder Tom Aspinall remains in a detention pattern as the summer quickly approaches. Despite months of negotiations between Jones, Aspinall and the UFC Brass, UFC CEO Dana White will remain non -flowering to flourish.
Aspinall recently established the record for the longest-gauging UFC-Interim title holder in the midst of his waiting for the Jones fight. He made a rare interim title defense last July at UFC 304 and ended Curtis Blaydes in the first round.
Jones continued to finish Stipe Miocic in his long-awaited first title defense on UFC 309. Immediately after beating Miocic, Jones focused his attention on negotiations with the UFC buyer about the Aspinall fight, who stand still.
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Jon Jones compares viral petition with one of his infamous UFC contacts
Many UFC fans are becoming increasingly agitated with Jones and his constant interruption of the Octagon. Call to be stripped of the UFC Heavyweight Title has been raised in recent weeks, especially after Jones Flip-Flopte with a potential pension on social media.
The frustrations of UFC fans in Jones resulted in a viral petition, on the Change.org website, which called Jones to be stripped of his UFC championship. The petition collected around 20,000 signatures in a week and has slightly more than 42,000 signatures and counts from this letter.
The petition shows how many UFC fans are fed up with the UFC Lineal Heavyweight Championship without a clear timeline for a return to defend it. If Jones is leaving or is stripped of the heavyweight belt, Aspinall will fight for the undisputed title against another top candidate, probably against a name such as Ciryl Gane or Jilton Almeida.
After the petition online had received attention, it didn't take long before Jones had knowledge, because he shared a response in a recent Instagram remark.
“The equivalent of Pico Grams [LAUGHS]”Jones noticed.
Jones referred to a famous controversy from earlier in his career, after positive testing on miniscule traces of a forbidden performance -improving substance. The positive test forced UFC to move an event from Las Vegas to California after the Nevada State Athletic Commission refused to compete Jones.
Jones then won the then vacant UFC Light Heavyweight Championship over Alexander Gustafsson on UFC 232. He dismissed Gustafsson in round 3 in a rematch of their immediate classic first combat years earlier.
Jon Jones was 'smothered' by social media star Hasbulla in viral meeting
While waiting continues with Jones's decision about a return to the Octagon, he enjoys some holiday time in Thailand. During the recent filming of an Ultimate Fighter -Spin -Off opposite Nate Diaz, Jones and social media star Hasbulla met for the first time and the meeting did not disappoint.
Hasbulla 'stifled' Jones at a hilarious moment between the two stars. Hasbulla has become friends with Islam Makhachev, Khabib Nurmagomedov and other top UFC stars during his social media ascent.
Speculation about the UFC career of Jones continues to run unbridled, and in the meantime the linear heavyweight champion of the UFC enjoys some downtime away from the Octagon.