Michael Bisping thinks Dana White has every right to be hesitant about Jon Jones competing at the White House.
The UFC CEO said there’s a one in a billion chance that he puts Jones on the UFC White House event next summer. White’s trust issues come after Jones (28-1 MMA, 22-1 UFC) opted to relinquish his UFC heavyweight title and retire before unifying his belt with Tom Aspinall.
However, upon hearing about the UFC’s planned event on the south lawn of the White House, it took Jones only two weeks to come out of retirement and re-enter the UFC drug-testing pool. White recently revealed that Jones apologized to him, but his stance remains the same.
“I don’t blame him,” Bisping said of White on his “Believe You Me” podcast. “You can’t blame the man. What did he do? He promoted him. He stuck to his guns. ‘This is the pound-for-pound No. 1.’ They even put that video package out. They gave him the $30 million apparently (to fight Aspinall). I don’t know if that’s true, but apparently that’s the number that’s floating around.
“And then in the end, he decides to double barrel (middle fingers), go off to Thailand, live his best life, mess everyone around, have Tom Aspinall waiting on the sidelines for bloody God knows how long. Then when a big opportunity like UFC White House comes along, he’s like, ‘Oh oh oh, hold on, hold on, let’s not be too hasty, I want a piece of that.’ If that was me, I’d say, ‘Go f*ck yourself.'”
Bisping has a suggestion for Jones to perhaps try and regain White’s trust.
“If I was Dana, I would say, ‘All right, you want to fight on the White House? Prove it,'” Bisping said. “Fight first. You’re a heavyweight, you don’t have to make weight, the (White House) fight’s not going to be until next June.”
