{"id":493562,"date":"2025-06-22T06:38:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T10:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=493562"},"modified":"2025-06-22T06:38:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T10:38:59","slug":"jon-jones-calls-it-a-career-at-the-ufc-as-tom-aspinall-is-new-champ","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/jon-jones-calls-it-a-career-at-the-ufc-as-tom-aspinall-is-new-champ\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Jones calls it a career at the UFC as Tom Aspinall is new champ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Jones, described as 1 of the most talented and great fighters of all time, has retired from the sport.<\/p>\n<p>Dana White, who is the CEO of the fighting organization, shared the news that Jon Jones called him to tell him that he is retiring. UFC wanted to make a fight between Jon and interim champ Tom Aspinall, but now that\u2019s off the cards. Now Tom is the new champ, and the fighting organization will look for his 1<sup>st<\/sup> opponent to defend his title.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJones called us to tell us that he will no longer fight,\u201d shared White. \u201cHe is officially retired. Now we have a new undisputed champ, and his name is Aspinall.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jon Jones&#39; career was one for the ages:<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfc6 16 wins in UFC title fights<br \/>\ud83c\udfc6 Youngest UFC champion of all time (23)<br \/>\ud83c\udfc6 20 fight unbeaten streak<br \/>\ud83c\udfc6 Two-division UFC champion<br \/>\ud83c\udfc6 22 career wins in UFC, T-5th most all-time<br \/>\ud83c\udfc6 Never been knocked down in his MMA career <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Go80bOfncT\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Go80bOfncT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ESPN MMA (@espnmma) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espnmma\/status\/1936566791817355590?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Jones lost only 1 fight in his career and won 28 phenomenal bouts. Also, he stepped up to become heavyweight champ against Ciryl Gane 2 years ago. Jon defended his title only once during that period as he was knocked out in the 3rd round by Stipe Miocic at UFC 309 in the past fall.<\/p>\n<p>The UFC CEO added that he feels sorry for Aspinall that they wasted his time and money, but promised to make it up to him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Jones, described as 1 of the most talented and great fighters of all time, has retired from the sport. Dana White, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":487188,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17494,24885,18148],"news_category":[16710,16715],"gn_keywords":[17957,20549,1093],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The legendary fighter officially retired, and the UFC named a new champion.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/493562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493562"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/493562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493564,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/493562\/revisions\/493564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493562"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=493562"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=493562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}