Prediction - Jones VS Aspinall WON'T happen in 2025

[Ozze]

Dana knows how much he can pay and still profit. And to be honest, I think 30 millions is very far from it. He won't damage his finances because of Jones.

I think if a value can't be reached, he'll offer Jones 1/4 of that to regain his LHW belt against Pereira and drive of in the sunset.

 

[Whitestallion]

Jones has all the leverage in the negotiations.
He's fine with stepping away from the sport at this point.
He has the legit HW belt, and no matter how long the negotiations take Dana will never strip him.

Apparently he wants a HUGE boxing-like payday to fight Aspinall, and the money is his only motivator to fight Aspinall. He has nothing left to prove. He's immune to social pressure.

We're acting like Jones will sign a contract in the spring to fight in the summer, but he wants multiple times more than anyone has ever been paid by the UFC. If he's smart, and say what you want about Jones but he's not stupid, he'll play the long game because the HW division is very weak and there's no one else that is a big name that would attract huge PPV buys. No one in the same ballpark as Jones.

So, I hope I'm wrong, but count on 2026 for this fight, if it happens at all.

Edit - Would like to add there was 19 months between Jones fighting Gane & Stipe, and apparently that was fine with Dana with no temptation to strip Jones of the title because of an injury.
Jones is practically in charge of his own career.
He fights who he wants, when he wants, for as much as he wants... or he's willing to not fight until he gets everything on his terms.
No question he'll be patient to get every dollar he can from this so he can have a lavish retirement.
(I'm not a Jones fan, but I can't begrudge him that. I'd do the same in his situation).

Its already signed and will be announced shortly, Tom is going to Vegas.

 

[fedorthegoat777]

Watch Dana get mad at Jon now and bring Frank back into the fold because he will now fight a little cheaper or he has more control over the situation.

"Jon always sucked, always overrated, scared of everybody, not even top 10 p4p."

 

[fedorthegoat777]

Jon sits out 2025, holds the belt, retires in 2026 without fighting again.

 

[Meathead Jock]

Jones has studied every detail about Aspinall and is playing the role of someone not on a plan to absolutely check every movement and pattern of his prey.

Whether he beats Aspinall is another story, but Jones is gaining study time.

The longer this plays out, the more I'd give Jones the chance of putting on a play with food until time kinda performance.

Nah. Jones is more of an old man each passing day while Tom is entering his prime.

Jones needs to make the fight soon if it's going to happen.

 

[Meathead Jock]

Also, Dana was epicly stupid for saying this in public.

That's just Dana's way of making it look like they did all they could to make it happen and Jones is the reason it didn't happen. Anyone who is a fan knows it is far from 100% and probably even less than 50%

 

[chinarice]

Also, Dana was epicly stupid for saying this in public.

Also Dana White:

 

[snugglecakes]

new rule idea... Ducks officially go on your MMA record as a forfeit loss

in any other sport its like that. The girls show up for their volleyball match, see that the opponents have a dood on their team, they say their forfeit, n its marked as an official loss

 

[nonoob]

Meathead Jock said: Jones is more of an old man each passing day while Tom is entering his prime.

Jones needs to make the fight soon if it's going to happen.

Call him old, whatever, a coward's age doesn't matter.

Jones is not now, Nor Has He Ever Been...A Man.​

Just Ask the Vegas police, or ask his abused babymama, or his traumatized kids.

This is true, it would of forced him to fight Aspinall when he came back healthy.

Scumbag wife beaters aligned, Dana will NEVER allow Pico to fight Tom.

 

[Azzy]

We've just got to hope Jones goes on another coke fuled crime spree to finally strip him of the belt because he's just going to tie up the division by dodging the fight, he will tease that he will accept it but then just stall on negotiations

 

[TankAbbott4Eva]

Jones has all the leverage in the negotiations.
He's fine with stepping away from the sport at this point.
He has the legit HW belt, and no matter how long the negotiations take Dana will never strip him.

Apparently he wants a HUGE boxing-like payday to fight Aspinall, and the money is his only motivator to fight Aspinall. He has nothing left to prove. He's immune to social pressure.

We're acting like Jones will sign a contract in the spring to fight in the summer, but he wants multiple times more than anyone has ever been paid by the UFC. If he's smart, and say what you want about Jones but he's not stupid, he'll play the long game because the HW division is very weak and there's no one else that is a big name that would attract huge PPV buys. No one in the same ballpark as Jones.

So, I hope I'm wrong, but count on 2026 for this fight, if it happens at all.

Edit - Would like to add there was 19 months between Jones fighting Gane & Stipe, and apparently that was fine with Dana with no temptation to strip Jones of the title because of an injury.
Jones is practically in charge of his own career.
He fights who he wants, when he wants, for as much as he wants... or he's willing to not fight until he gets everything on his terms.
No question he'll be patient to get every dollar he can from this so he can have a lavish retirement.
(I'm not a Jones fan, but I can't begrudge him that. I'd do the same in his situation).

There's a million ways to duck, one is pricing yourself out of it.

 

[BowserJr]

Pretty sure this happened

Jones asked for 15 mil
Dana said ok
Dana announced it's gonna happen
Jones then said he wants 30 mil

 

[Mind Mine]

Jones has studied every detail about Aspinall and is playing the role of someone not on a plan to absolutely check every movement and pattern of his prey.

Whether he beats Aspinall is another story, but Jones is gaining study time.

The longer this plays out, the more I'd give Jones the chance of putting on a play with food until time kinda performance.

Sounds good and all til you realize he hasn’t been offered the fight yet. Sherdog is meticulously stupid for ignoring to this date no offer was made outright

 

[KO Shotz]

If it doesn't happen by summer or Novemebr of '25 it won't happen. Hate to see Tom being sidelined for this long.

 

[Young Calf Kick]

Interesting, he's never done it before. Why start now

Stop lying. Jon Jones doesn’t know you and he never will.

 

[Prex32]

If it doesn't happen by summer or Novemebr of '25 it won't happen. Hate to see Tom being sidelined for this long.

he probably gonna fight in between again one or two fights
it's how it usually goes with the ufc and jones / or wait years

 

[west42]

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[JKS]

Stop lying. Jon Jones doesn’t know you and he never will.

You're the one that's lying buddy making shit up. I don't care if Jones knows me or not, it's completely irrelevant to the topic.

You didn't answer the question, when the contract was out and offered to Francis for UFC 285. The fight card that Jones fought on and agreed to fight Francis on. Why didn't Francis sign the contract?

You're talking all this shit about Jon pricing himself out. Jon negotiating terms for that fight and took it. It's the other guy that was the problem.

 

[TerrorTimmy]

He's immune to social pressure.

Which is exactly why he keeps responding to social media posts calling him out for ducking Tom. Because it doesn't affect him at all. Right. That makes sense.