UFC president Dana White says he can not cease Jon Jones from retiring, regardless of the American having “agreed” to struggle Tom Aspinall.
White was responding to the social media exercise of the UFC heavyweight champion, who suggested he was retired earlier than calling out ex-UFC fighter Francis Ngannou.
Talking on the UFC 316 post-fight information convention, White mentioned 37-year-old Jones had mentioned nothing about retiring to him and that he was solely excited by matching him with Aspinall.
“Tom Aspinall is the man. If the man needs to retire and does not need to struggle, there’s nothing you are able to do,” White mentioned.
“I did not need Khabib [Nurmagomedov] to retire, I assumed [Daniel Cormier] ought to’ve stayed in it longer, so it is none of my enterprise.
“I am going to do what I can to make the struggle, if we will, if he is speaking that loopy, I did not realise that.”
With Ngannou fuelling hypothesis he is likely to be open to a return to the UFC, White performed down the possibilities even when it was to struggle Jones.
“It is Aspinall’s struggle,” White mentioned.
