Dana White 'can't risk' putting Jon | MMA News
UFC CEO Dana White and the combat promotion’s employees are in the early levels of planning the historic UFC occasion on the White House grounds anticipated to happen on July 4th, 2026.
While White cannot predict what the panorama of the game can be like next July to have any concept what fighters can be on the combat card, he is aware of who is not going to be combating at the occasion. During the UFC 318 Post-Fight Press Conference in New Orleans final Saturday, White mentioned that he ‘cannot risk’ putting former two-division UFC champion Jon Jones on the combat card.
“That fight (card) is a year away. I’m not even thinking about anything right now. The landscape will change so much by next Fourth of July. Who knows what’s going to happen. Who knows who’s going to be on the card, what the main event will be, or who will hold all the titles. Everything could be completely different. It’s not even worth thinking about it right now,” White mentioned.
“I have other problems. I’m dealing with the logistics and all the things on figuring out how to make this thing happen, how do we want to do it. I’m going to fly out there in about ten days, two weeks. We’ll have all the renderings done, sit down with him (President Trump) and go through the renderings and see what he wants to do and what he doesn’t want to do,” White continued.
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White has promised the best combat card in the promotion’s historical past but the occasion is not going to function arguably the best fighter, Jon Jones.
Jones introduced his retirement in late June only to come out of retirement two weeks later after President Trump introduced the plans to host a UFC occasion at the White House. Jones hoped to be half of the historic occasion but White closed the door on the likelihood.
“You know how I felt about him (Jones). I can’t risk putting him in big positions, in a big spot and have something go wrong,” mentioned White. “Especially the White House card.”
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