Former UFC welterweight Ben Askren wants Dana White to cancel the Jon Jones vs Stipe Miocic fight.
Jones, who has been sidelined since winning the heavyweight title at UFC 285 due to an injury, is set to return in November to face former champion Stipe Miocic, and not interim champion Tom Aspinall, who most recently DEFENDED his INTERIM crown at UFC 304, where he stopped Curtis Blaydes in the first round.
Despite dwindling fan interest, Dana is moving forward with Jones vs Miocic, although he guarantees the Brit a title unification bout with the winner of the fight.
In a recent episode of ‘Funky and The Champ’ with Daniel Cormier, Askren said that Dana is acting like a hypocrite by giving Jones special treatment.
“I almost feel like maybe Jon [Jones] has some dirt on Dana [White] or something. Because Dana generally wouldn’t put up with this type of behavior,” Askren said. “This is what the UFC has been founded on, whereas boxing [isn’t]… ‘We want the best guys to fight, we want to see who the best guy is, no shenanigans, no padding records to go to 40-0’…the fact that Jon, I don’t know if allowed is the right term, but that Dana is playing along and letting him and Stipe [Miocic] fight, when Stipe is going to be close to four years [out] by the time they fight…
“And you have this young, interim champion who, he’s a beast! He smashes people. The fact that they won’t put them in there together, and there’s this obvious guarantee that Jon beats Stipe, and says ‘I’m done!’. And then you never get to see that.”
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