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Jon Jones
Jon Jones is an American MMA fighter in the UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) who is a multiple-time light heavyweight champion.
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19 Jul 1987
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Former UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones attends a press conference in Las Vegas. Photo: AP Photo/John Locher, File
Ultimate Fighting Championship

UFC 270: Jones unimpressed by Ngannou, Gane – ‘y’all ready for daddy?’

Former UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones reacts to Francis Ngannou’s heavyweight title defence against Ciryl Gane.

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Ultimate Fighting Championship

Jon Jones not in UFC’s heavyweight plans for 2022

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UFC: Jon Jones seeks new team, Jackson Wink ‘not level it used to be’

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Ultimate Fighting Championship

The Takedown | Jon Jones continues sad slide towards UFC irrelevancy

Former light heavyweight champ is likely to try and insert himself into the spotlight on social media after UFC 268, but is anyone really listening any more?

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Former light heavyweight champion Jon Jones attends a news conference for UFC 235 in Las Vegas. Photo: AP
Ultimate Fighting Championship

The Takedown | Is Jon Jones redeemable, or should the UFC walk away for good?

Former light heavyweight champion’s latest brush with the law for domestic violence could be point of no return, with several indications the UFC is willing to move on.

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UFC: Jones charged with battery domestic violence after Hall of Fame

Former UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones also charged with injuring or tampering with a vehicle following arrest on Friday morning.

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The Takedown | Where does Jon Jones fit in heavyweight division now?

Can Jon Jones and UFC president Dana White come to terms so ‘Bones’ may fight the winner of Gane vs Ngannou in 2022?

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Is Jon Jones fading away? Photo: AFP
Ultimate Fighting Championship

The Takedown | Jon Jones has become his own worst enemy

Former UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones is arguably the greatest fighter of all-time, but Dana White has shown he is willing to move on from anyone.

Ultimate Fighting Championship

The Takedown | Jon Jones vs Francis Ngannou negotiation figures go public

Former UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones’ money talk for Francis Ngannou fight sets the stage for some heated negotiations.

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Ultimate Fighting Championship

UFC 260: White tells Jones ‘we can make [Ngannou] fight tonight, Jon’

Jon Jones hits out in series of tweets, after UFC president Dana White calls his bluff and says Derrick Lewis could be Francis Ngannou’s first heavyweight title challenger.

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Dana White puts the heavyweight title around Francis Ngannou’s waist at UFC 260. Photo: Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC
Ultimate Fighting Championship

The Takedown | Adesanya’s failed gamble gives Jon Jones added ammunition

UFC middleweight champ Israel Adesanya ‘dared to be great’ but Jon Jones could get last laugh in their fizzling feud after moving up a weight class the right way.

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Jon Jones’ move to heavyweight is a risky one, but could pay off extraordinarily well for the UFC star. Photo: AP
Ultimate Fighting Championship

UFC 259: Jones trolls Adesanya after Blachowicz loss – ‘good job kid’

‘The greatest striking MMA has ever seen? This needs to stop already,’ writes Jon Jones in series of tweets mocking Israel Adesanya.

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Ultimate Fighting Championship

The Takedown | Adesanya can become UFC pound-for-pound No 1, MMA ‘GOAT’ in 2021

UFC middleweight champ Israel Adesanya can tee up a Jon Jones superfight – and a shot at MMA immortality – with a win against light heavyweight champion Jan Blachowicz.

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Ultimate Fighting Championship

UFC: Jones mocks Cormier – ‘Stipe is your rival, I’m your superior’

Jon Jones takes dig at fellow former UFC champ Daniel Cormier on six-year anniversary of their first fight, and mocks critics who claim he ‘ran away’ from light heavyweight division

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Jon Jones kicks Daniel Cormier during their light heavyweight title bout at UFC 182 in Las Vegas. Photo: AP
Ultimate Fighting Championship

UFC: Jones has ‘no intentions’ of ever going back to 205

Jon Jones says it would’ve been ‘selfish’ to hold on to UFC light heavyweight title and ‘lie to the fans’ that he’d ever defend it again, after moving up a division.

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Jon Jones works out at the Jackson Wink MMA gym in Albuquerque. Photo: Instagram
Ultimate Fighting Championship

UFC: Cormier thinks Jones deserves heavyweight title shot

Daniel Cormier doesn’t see anything wrong with Jon Jones getting immediate title fight at heavyweight and backs his former great UFC rival to be ‘very successful’ in the division.

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The Takedown | Will Jon Jones be the UFC’s top story of 2021?

Jon Jones looks to UFC heavyweight division after bulking up to 240 pounds, and beating Stipe Miocic could solidify ‘GOAT’ status – but Israel Adesanya super fight must happen.

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UFC: Blachowicz tells Adesanya, Jones ‘I’ll beat both of you’

UFC light heavyweight champ Jan Blachowicz is welcoming all challengers, whether it’s the winner of Glover Teixeira vs Thiago Santos, or even Israel Adesanya or Jon Jones.

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Jan Blachowicz punches Dominick Reyes in their light heavyweight title bout during UFC 253. Photo: Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC
Ultimate Fighting Championship

UFC: Adesanya coach says Jones will have to ‘wait his turn’

Israel Adesanya’s City Kickboxing striking coach Mike Angove already deciphering a game plan to beat Jon Jones but says former UFC light heavyweight champ must get in line.

Ultimate Fighting Championship

The Takedown | Sorry Jon Jones, Khabib deserves UFC pound-for-pound No 1 spot

Jon Jones can gripe all he wants but UFC lightweight champ Khabib Nurmagomedov has earned his place at top of the pile, especially if he hangs around and goes for 30-0.

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UFC: Jones on Khabib landing pound-for-pound No 1 spot – ‘hilarious’

Ex-UFC light heavyweight champ Jon Jones hits out as Khabib Nurmagomedov celebrates topping pound-for-pound rankings – ‘nothing was given to me because I’m a nice guy’.

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Khabib Nurmagomedov celebrates his victory over Justin Gaethje in their lightweight title bout at UFC 254. Photo: Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images
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UFC 254: Jon Jones mocks Khabib asking for pound-for-pound No 1

Former light heavyweight champ Jon Jones makes fun of retiring Khabib Nurmagomedov for asking UFC to place him atop its pound-for-pound rankings in series of tweets.

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Khabib Nurmagomedov celebrates his victory over Justin Gaethje in their lightweight title bout at UFC 254 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Photo: Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images
Ultimate Fighting Championship

UFC: Dana all in for Adesanya vs Jones – ‘more of a reality now’

Dana White thinks it was ‘way too soon’ for Israel Adesanya to be talking about Jon Jones when he first arrived in UFC but says middleweight champ ‘knows this is his house now’.

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Ultimate Fighting Championship

UFC: Adesanya and Jones bring up family in heated tweets

Israel Adesanya says Jon Jones’ mother, now deceased, would be ‘disappointed in who you’ve become’ while former UFC light heavyweight champ says he would not lose ‘to a serpent like you’.

Ultimate Fighting Championship

UFC: Cormier shuts down ‘king’ Blachowicz’ call-out

Jan Blachowicz demands respect after Daniel Cormier says the new UFC light heavyweight champion is ‘too slow’ to beat Jon Jones.

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Daniel Cormier celebrates his victory over Derrick Lewis in their heavyweight title bout at UFC 230 in Madison Square Garden, New York in 2018. Photo: AFP
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UFC 253: Reyes vows to emerge from Jones’ shadow, build own legacy

Dominick Reyes still has a ‘chip on my shoulder’ from controversial decision defeat by Jon Jones, and says ‘I’m just righting a wrong and taking my crown’ vs Jan Blachowicz.

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Dominick Reyes rests on the fence after his light heavyweight bout against Jon Jones at UFC 247. Photos: AP
Ultimate Fighting Championship

UFC: Reyes thinks Jones vacated to avoid rematch – ‘I’m the reason’

Dominick Reyes says Jon Jones is moving to heavyweight ‘because he can’t keep up with us any more’. but former UFC light heavyweight champ responds on social media.

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Ultimate Fighting Championship

The Takedown | Jon Jones should get Stipe Miocic next, not Francis Ngannou

Jon Jones wants a shot at the UFC heavyweight title after vacating his light-heavyweight belt and finally moving up, and the ‘GOAT’ should get it, no questions asked – sorry, Francis Ngannou.

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