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It's clear that Jon Jones (28-1) wants a 2025 that will go down in the history books. And if the public and the UFC want to see him face Tom Aspinall (15-3, interim heavyweight champion), the MMA GOAT will not do it at any price. It is a tough fight that could be the first 'real' defeat for 'Bones'.
"Rumor is he wants $30 million. I hope the UFC pays it," Joe Rogan said on his podcast, 'Joe Rogan Experience'. In the past, after Jones' victory over Miocic and in the last UFC events of 2024, Dana White insisted that the American would fight the Englishman in what could be the biggest fight of 2025 in MMA
The rumor is he wants $30 million. I hope the UFC pays him
For his part, and on several occasions, Jones made it clear that he was not at all interested in a fight with Aspinall. He did not like some of the English fighter's "disrespect" towards him, and said that he would not even negotiate with him. Little by little, however, he began to open up... and he was always up front saying that for the right price, that fight could happen.
The rumored 30 million euros would undoubtedly be the highest figure currently paid to a UFC fighter. These are numbers that only Conor McGregor has come close to, and unofficially. It is speculated that he took more than 30 million from his fight against 'Cowboy' Cerrone. The UFC in of money and payment to fighters, as we know, is not very transparent