Jon
Jones plans on staying ready for the UFC White House card. |
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Jon
Jones isn’t fazed by extremely long odds.
While
UFC CEO Dana White has repeatedly dismissed the possbility of
Jones taking part in the promotion’s highly-anticipated card at the
White House next year, “Bones” won’t give up on the dream. Most
recently, White
set the odds at a “billion-to-one” that Jones would have a
place at the event.
“Despite the odds, I’m still training and optimistic about the
possibility of being part of the White House event,” Jones wrote on
X. “At the end of the day, Dana is the boss and it’s his call
whether I compete that night or not. I do know Dana was really
excited about the fight, and the door hasn’t been completely
closed. That’s all a guy like me really needs. It sounds like
another awesome goal to be inspired by.
“Sometimes in life, we’re not going to reach everything we set out
to do and that’s okay. But I like my chances… after all, one in a
billion is exactly what it took to end up as Jon ‘Bones’ Jones in
the first place.”
Despite the odds, I’m still training and
optimistic about the possibility of being part of the White House
event. At the end of the day, Dana is the boss and it’s his call
whether I compete that night or not. I do know Dana was really
excited about the fight, and the door hasn’t…— Jonny Meat (@JonnyBones)
August 18, 2025
Although White guaranteed that a title unification bout between
Jones and Tom
Aspinall would happen in 2025, “Bones” elected to retire in
June. However, he re-rentered the drug-testing pool two weeks later
when President Donald Trumph announced plans to hold a UFC card at
the White House to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United
States.
Jones, White Have Difference of Opinion on UFC White House
Card
For the most part, White has balked when asked to engage in any
potential matchmaking for the event, which could take place on July
4, 2026 — a Saturday. That tone changes when discussing Jones,
whose history has included numerous run-ins with the law —
including a
charge of fleeing the scene of an accident in February — as
well as a number of failed drug tests.
“Let me ask you, what do you think Jon would do in the next couple
of months that would make me trust putting him on the White House
card?” White said on Saturday night. “So I already said that I
don’t trust him, and you’re asking me what could he do for me to
trust him in the next three months? You don’t trust him! I don’t
talk to him either. I haven’t talked to him at all. If I had to
make odds, it’s a billion-to-one that I put Jon Jones on the White
House card.”