Jon Jones is going to fight Stipe Miocic , no matter what. Jones won the UFC heavyweight title by submitting Ciryl Gane at UFC 285 17 months ago. He was then scheduled to defend it against Stipe Miocic at UFC 296 before suffering an injury that forced him from the bout.
Since then Jones has been recovering, with the intention of returning against Miocic later this year, despite the emergence of interim champion Tom Aspinall . Understandably, Aspinall appears to be increasingly frustrated by Jones’s insistence on fighting Miocic, who is 42 years old and has not competed in over three years, instead of unifying their titles, even suggesting earlier this week that Jones “there’s no way on Earth” Jones will ever fight him . And Jones isn’t really doing much to dissuade that notion as on Tuesday, he took to social media with a series of posts about Aspinall, his legacy in the sport, and his steadfast resolve to fight Miocic.
“Looks like Tom displaying that amazing UK wrestling. My focus is on stipe, he actually wrestled division one. Best heavyweight of all time as of right now.
Maybe Tom will go on and beat Stipe’s record one day, right now I’m focusing on goat things.” “Haha man, you guys have been really begging me lately. Is the heavyweight division really that boring without me?” “The beautiful thing about being my position is, I’m not defined by one fight.
Most of you grew up watching me win.” “I guess there was a video that resurfaced recently .