UFC Dana White CEO offers retirement news that can be said to be the greatest mixed combat artist in all ages at a post -acquaintance press conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, after the UFC Fight Night Card on Saturday was scary as it happened.
The White tone suggested that he had been forced – again – by the man He recently called the world’s best fighter in the world.
This man – John Jones – He worked on his conditions and moved in his pace. His retirement was not different.
But should anyone be surprised that Jones decided to go out this way? More importantly, do we think this Really the end of Jones’s complex career?
For better or worse, Jones is easily considered the most selfish fighter in UFC history. This was brilliantly succeeded in his career in the United Labor Council and to ensure anyone else.
Jones retire Tom Aspinal After months of will, they will not. Jones went out on his way to discredit Asmal as a opponent, describing him as not proven and annoying. At the same time, he chose to make an old battle with a former hero of 42 years old Stip Miocic Age may be better on paper. There was no real reason for the Musik battle other than UFC talent on the day of payment and nourishing the ego Jones. White poetry was sufficiently confident last December to ensure “100 percent”, the battle will happen and Jones will face Aspinall after that.
Instead, Jones routinely disturbed retirement, and floating attacks against non -corrosion opponents Alex Pereira and Francis Nagano It appears to laugh at the idea that he can be stripped of his title.
And remember, you cannot strip a gay man at this stage give the belt freely. Veni, Vidi, Vici. 😘
– Jonny Meat (Jonnybones) June 6, 2025
“The battle was made,” White told the media on Sunday in New York. “We have shown the battle a long time. Why did he decide not to fight, you must ask him, comrades.”
Jones left people before maintaining control. There is no concern for the fans, his promoter, or his teammates. But the greatest athletes always have a square separating them from the rest. Quirk Jones only occurs to be selfish.
This selfishness has protected him throughout his career in MMA. Without it, it may not be its place today.
Jones does not fight aspinall is just one of the many examples in which Jones put his needs first, regardless of who helped him reach his place. UFC could have abandoned Jones during a series of legal cases. Instead, they stood alongside their most popular and profitable star, perhaps more than any other fighter outside Conor McGregor.
But what about when Johns jumped his teammate Jackson Wink Rashad Evans To fight Mauricio “Shogon” Roa To get the heavyweight title? What is alleged is a close relationship between the training partners who were resolved in a war of words from the words that left Evans the gym. Evans Jones called for being a “fake” and said that “a good man’s act” will eventually collapse. Jones continued to defeat Evans at UFC 145 in 2012, but the words of his rival suspended the Jones profession.
Jones also rejected a short battle with Shail SuninCausing UFC 151 cancellation in 2012The first time that UFC is stopped per width. To clarify this, Jones had remained three days in his training camp when he learned Dan Henderson He was wounded and Sonnen, a competitor to the previous medium weight title, offered the intervention.
White said at the time: “This is one of the most disgusting selfish decisions that not only affects you,” White said at that time. “This affects 16 other lives, their families, and children return to school. The list continues, and in all things, the money spent on fighters for training and the list continues.
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Aspinall returns to the heavyweight goats after Jones’s retirement
Tom Asbinal speaks after officially became UFC Heavyweight Champion after John Jones retirement.
When asked on Sunday about whether Jones had stumbled in Aspinall, White referred to UFC 151. “I said it a million times and I will say it again: John Jones has never had any other than that simultaneously with Chael Sonnen Thing.”
Other heroes rose in a short notice, including Islam is not afraidWho recently defended his lightweight title in one day notice against Renato Moyano In UFC 311, Jones chose to search for himself. Is it a mistake? Not necessarily. Jones could have preferred to win regardless, but he could not control conditions, and this is the key to decision -making.
Perhaps the most interesting example of Jones, who first puts himself how to experience in the last half of his career and protect his position as MMA goats.
The front half of the Jones profession was amazing and full of dominant shows on the fighters of the Hall of Roa, Ivanz, Vitor Balfour. He also ended three Hofers in Sonnen and Quinton “Rampage” Jackson and Lyota Machida. But over the past decade, he only fought nine times due to legal issues, comment and injuries.
Outside battles with a bitter competitor Daniel Corrire One of them was a winning strike at UFC 214 in July 2014 It turned because Jones is a positive test for a banned material The back half of the Jones of the Jones of the UFC is not compared to the first.
Jones avoided experience that exposes himself to the risk of losing by fighting uninteresting. Thanks to it, he still wins. But the fans began to ask what will happen against a high -level opponent in his pride. Huge wrestling was not partially achieved with NGANNOU because Jones requested “Deontay Wilder Money” (20 to 30 million dollars), and we saw something similar to Aspinall. Jones cleared social media and reduces the importance of the battle.
It is not a matter of money, loyalty, or satisfying anyone else to Jones. It is about Jones what he wants, when he wants and how he wants. When the complaint is tired of the fans, and it may have been given a final date to make a decision to fight or give up the heavyweight belt, White Jones said he called and retires.
If Jones decides, or when, get out of retirement to fight Aspinall or anyone else, he will be in the driver’s seat in negotiation. After all, retirement is to take advantage of the MMA, and if there is one thing he loves Jones, it works on its terms.
