Jon Jones shows true colours with Tom Aspinall UFC fight admission

The two-division champion has been precise dismissive of a combat with the interim champion, but has present revealed he's unfastened to a clash with the British star

Jon Jones has revealed that UFC brag Dana White would person to connection him a immense purse for him to see taking connected interim heavyweight champion, Tom Aspinall.

Jones is the existent heavyweight king aft helium picked up the loop pursuing a win implicit Ciryl Gane astatine UFC 285 past year. The erstwhile light-heavyweight champion is scheduled to instrumentality connected MMA fable Stipe Miocic astatine UFC 309 tonight. With a imaginable triumph implicit the MMA legend, galore person called for 'Bones' to combat the British prima next.

Recently, Jones dismissed the anticipation of a match-up should helium proceed to fight. When asked by Kevin Iole astir the imaginable of facing Aspinall, helium said: “More than apt not. I consciousness similar Tom Aspinall is, I don’t privation to accidental ‘nobody’, but helium conscionable hasn’t proven anything. He hasn’t done thing – I recognize that helium won his loop against Sergei, Sergei conscionable got slaughtered by idiosyncratic else. So I’m not present to gamble idiosyncratic other making a sanction disconnected of me, I’m present to vie against the guys wherever erstwhile we look backmost 10 years from now, ‘Jon Jones fought this guy, that guy, this legend, this champion…’.”

That said, it seems arsenic if the American icon is present unfastened to a combat with the 31-year-old wrong the cage, but has demanded a life-changing payday. In an interrogation with societal media sensation Adin Ross, Jones said: “The lone mode that we bash it is if Dana and Hunter springiness maine a cheque that truly changes my mind… I privation it to beryllium truly worthy my while. But close now, it doesn't consciousness worthy my while."

While helium flirting with the thought of taking connected the Brit, successful the aforesaid interview, 'Bones' was leaning towards a clash with light-heavyweight king, Alex Pereira. "I deliberation it makes the astir sense. When it comes to accolades, Alex Pereira has done truthful overmuch for the UFC successful specified a abbreviated magnitude of time, he's built a immense bequest not lone successful Brazil, but successful America. Americans emotion him truthful overmuch and he's a two-division champion similar myself. He's incredibly marketable. I conscionable deliberation it's the combat to make. Other things arsenic well... we're the aforesaid size, we're the aforesaid property and that conscionable makes consciousness to me."

Since signing with the promotion, 'Poatan' has established himself arsenic 1 of the champion pound-for-pound fighters successful the sport. The Brazilian kickboxing seasoned won a rubric successful conscionable his 4th combat successful the UFC, defeating Israel Adesanya 2 years years agone for the middleweight strap. The 37-year-old past opted to determination up to light-heavyweight instantly aft the combat and yet defeated Jiri Prochazka for the vacant rubric astatine UFC 295 past year.