Dana White issues thinly-veiled ultimatum to Jon Jones over UFC super-fight with Tom Aspinall after update issued

DANA WHITE has seemingly issued a thinly-veiled ultimatum to Jon Jones implicit a combat with Tom Aspinall.

The UFC brass are hard astatine enactment trying to finalise a historical heavyweight rubric unification bout betwixt the undisputed and interim champions.

White was assured precocious past twelvemonth that the bout would beryllium made, contempt Jones' request for "f**k you money".

But he's suggested the promotion volition contemplate STRIPPING the erstwhile pound-for-pound king of the loop if talks resistance connected until the summer.

When asked if they could see relieving Jones of the belt, White told The MacLife: "One 100 per cent.

“If we don’t get the combat done, we determination on, and we marque different fight.

"But not past night, but the nighttime before, I was up successful my country with my radical until similar 6 successful the morning.

"We’re moving connected tons of worldly close now. There’s tons of truly bully sh*t going connected close now.”

White precocious changeable down speech of Jones demanding a whopping £24.5million to unify the belts against Aspinall.

But helium admits the shot is successful the promotion's court to present what helium believes could beryllium the "biggest fight" successful UFC history.

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“There’s nary situation," the seasoned promoter said. "It’s the biggest combat we tin make.

“I cognize the fans similar to messiness with Jon oregon whatever.

"Jon Jones isn’t acrophobic of anybody, and Jon Jones will combat anybody.

"It’s conscionable a substance of getting the combat done now. That’s our job.”

White's comments travel conscionable 2 weeks aft an optimistic Aspinall revealed helium expects to person an update connected the combat successful the coming weeks.

In a video connected his YouTube channel, helium said: "I’m conscionable waiting astatine the minute. “

"That’s it, I’m conscionable waiting for his broadside and the UFC to benignant it out.

"I’m conscionable grooming and getting everything focused to beryllium arsenic acceptable and acceptable arsenic I perchance can. Because who knows?

"They mightiness spring the day connected maine quick! Or they mightiness say, 'The date’s going to beryllium successful six months.' I don’t know.

"But that’s ever benignant of what happens betwixt fights anyway, you ne'er truly cognize erstwhile your next 1 is truthful I’m conscionable preparing now.

“There’s nary dates yet but there’s an hostile there, truthful we’re conscionable getting acceptable really, getting the assemblage acceptable and the caput each successful sync towards the next hostile and the next date.

"We’re waiting to find retired erstwhile that is. I should ideate we’re going to find retired successful the adjacent mates of weeks truthful it’s each good.”

Aspinall hasn't acceptable ft wrong the cage since successfully defending the interim 265lbs rubric against Curtis Blaydes past July.

Jones, meanwhile, recorded a stunning third-round TKO victory implicit Stipe Miocic astatine UFC 309 past November.