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Jones-Aspinall: A timeline of MMA's heavyweight melodrama

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Tom Aspinall was handed the interim heavyweight belt on Nov. 11, 2023 , after knocking out Sergei Pavlovich at UFC 295 .

Jon Jones is the reason there was an interim heavyweight championship fight; he had to bow out of his scheduled title defense against Stipe Miocic.

Jones has never turned down a fight, UFC president Dana White has assured the MMA community that the fight will happen.

UFC heavyweight champ Jon Jones says he's ready to return to the ring in 2025 .

Aspinall says his top priority is becoming the undisputed heavyweight champion.

The next day , Jones posts a video in which he announces his next opponent will be.. "the American healthcare system" The next month , a petition to strip Jones of his belt has nearly 200,000 signatures.

Yes, I've been saying Jon is gonna fight Tom ." June 13, 2025: Back from filming in Thailand , Jones appears at a Dirty Boxing Championship event in Miami . A reporter asks if Jones is aware of White 's claim that Jones agreed to fight Aspinall , to which he replies, "Is that what he said?".