DANA WHITE has given a defiant update on the eagerly anticipated heavyweight showdown between Jon Jones and Tom Aspinall.
The heavyweight title unification bout has STILL yet to be finalised, despite it being in the works since last November.
But former three-time UFC title challenger Chael Sonnen sensationally claimed last week that a .
White insists that couldn't be any further from the truth, saying of Sonnen's massive claim last weekend: “Everything you hear is bulls**t until we say it.”
The delay in finalising the bout has only increased MMA fans' belief that and won't share the octagon.
But remains steadfast in his insistence that the pair, 37 and 32 respectively, will share the octagon.
“I’ve said it many times, that’s the fight we want to make this year,” he said. “[I'm] still super confident [it happens].”;
He later added: “I've said since Day one that this would be the biggest heavyweight fight in the history of the company and the history of the sport.
“This will be a big one.”
White also provided clarity on the middleweight title picture, confirming that undefeated phenom will face champion later this year.
He said: “We all know that fight is happening, the Du Plessis vs Khamzat fight.
“It’s happening, it’s just not happening [at] International Fight Week.
“That fight is done. It’s just not happening on that one [UFC 317].”
Hall-of-Famer and former 205lbs king Jones hasn't set foot inside the octagon since his brutallast November.
Aspinall, meanwhile, was last in action last July at UFC 304 in Manchester, where he decimated Curtis Blaydes in 60 seconds to avenge his 2022 loss to the American.
