Jon Jones supporters have been out in full drive throughout Friday’s official weigh-ins for Soiled Boxing Championship 1.
Earlier this week, TMZ Sports activities revealed that ‘Bones’ had taken a web page out of Conor McGregor’s guide, turning into a component proprietor of DBX. The promotion’s first official occasion goes down on Saturday night time at The Hangar in Miami, however first, the opponents, which embody former UFC stars Yoel Romero and Andrei Arlovski, stepped on the size to weigh in for his or her respective bouts.
Whereas the whole lot went off with no hitch, followers have been extra enamored with the truth that Jon Jones was on stage for the weigh-ins and proceeded to bathe the undisputed UFC heavyweight champion with assist.
How precisely did they do that? Nicely, see for your self through the video under:
Dana White Insists Jon Jones vs. Tom Aspinall deal is ‘Done, but It’s not completed’
Jones and Aspinall, the UFC’s interim heavyweight titleholder, have been circling each other for greater than a 12 months, leaving many to marvel if we’ll ever see the 2 unify their belts contained in the Octagon.
Nevertheless, Dana White revealed on Friday {that a} deal is “done, but it’s not done,” no matter which means.
Till the struggle does occur, the highest of the heavyweight division is at a whole stand-still, leaving each followers and fighters more and more annoyed with the scenario.
“The heavyweight champion of the world fought in November, why they haven’t made this matchup is beyond me,” former UFC middleweight titleholder, Michael Bisping, advised talkSPORT. “You only need two months for a fight camp. If they don’t announce it soon, then they’re really going to talk about stripping this guy. Any other sport … if this was boxing, you would be stripped. If you don’t fight the mandatory challenger, you will be stripped. It’s just madness.”
Since profitable the heavyweight title in March 2023, ‘Bones’ has solely defended the belt towards Stipe Miocic, a person who, up till that time, hadn’t fought in three and a half years.
Within the time since Jon Jones turned heavyweight champion, Tom Aspinall has fought 3 times, defeating Marcin Tybura, Sergei Pavlovich, and Curtis Blaydes all through knockout within the opening spherical.
