Tom Aspinall Still in Limbo, as Other Prizefighter Poised for ‘Presidential Belt’ Super Fight to Bring Jon Jones Back

Jon Jones interested in a White House PPV lineup, and one analyst presents Tom Aspinall isn't the name to bring him out of woodwork again.

Tom Aspinall Still in Limbo, as Other Prizefighter Poised for ‘Presidential Belt’ Super Fight to Bring Jon Jones Back

Jon Jones has an old option rather than Tom Aspinall super fight (Source: X)

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Chase the undisputed belt, and topple inactive champ Jon Jones to be the legitimate champ is what everyone said. However, now-undisputed champ Tom Aspinall isn’t getting the easy end of the stick, even so. A partition of fans has some considering it not easy pickings, hence a fight ‘Bones’ would avoid.

Another section still considers him a young, fledgling name to make a dent in Jones’ career. Both ways, UK native Tom Aspinall is thus an avoidable option for Jon Jones. After all, the American fighter was willing to stall out with a ginormous threshold of days, 7+ months in PPV compensatory negotiations, and so forth.

POTUS Donald Trump raised some brows recently, announcing a White House UFC card lineup for 2026. Jones, who hung it up rather than unify with Tom Aspinall, changed tune hearing about this development In under two weeks, ‘Bones’ reported entering DFSI test pools back again. Should Jones commit to a UFC return, an ex-fighter has a more “winnable” option in mind for the White House card.

Maybe you could put Jon Jones in some type of title fight if he was gonna [at all] fight Tom Aspinall…I don’t think that happens. What I think is, if the opportunity for Jon Jones to realistically come back — he says, ‘Dana, I want to come back on this card,’ I think he looks for a fight with a guy like Alex Pereira…[Cause] I think Tom Aspinall is the biggest, baddest man on the planet…I think he runs through Jon Jones.

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Alex Pereira, a former champion and powerhouse, is someone Jones has wanted to fight as a legacy option many times. ‘Poatan’ and his knockouts are famed for a reason. The former 205-pound champ went on a one-of-one title campaign and was the ninth two-weight champion in history.

From international boxers, Korean and Japanese MMA stars/celebs, to powerlifters in clubs, Pereira and his antics have gone viral with many. His signature stoic demeanor, his power punches, and such have made him a world-wide reckoning; thus, making Bones opt for this high-profile fight rather than Aspinall. To him, the Brit was only a good PPV draw to the UK crowd.

Meanwhile, Pereira is widely popular not just here, but on a global scale. He is a prime draw at MSG and other places, much like Bones. While neither of them has a belt, a Presidential prizefight strap could still be on the cards if Poatan goes up in weight.

Jones, 39 next year, would also make a tactile picking off the fighter. The English heavyweight has trained in BJJ since he was eight. The promotion’s #9 pound-for-pound, Aspinall, is a stiff challenge. Meanwhile, Pereira has always had holes in his ground game. At the UFC 313 PPV, the Brazilian lost his championship strap, but proved his improvement on his TD defense and wrestling defense.

Both have had massive strides in their career, and both could very well be at the tail end of accomplishing almost all of it. So, if anything brings out the previous heavyweight and light heavyweight champ, it could be Pereira going up in weight as a safer legacy option for this super fight.

Jon Jones reveals reason behind U-turn from retirement, hinting Tom Aspinall scrapper could be back on

First, Jones was highly negligent of Tom Aspinall as not putting a dent in his career anymore. Sure, he is the hot new topic. The consensus running thought was also that Jon Jones didn’t want to dangle his GOAT standing for just one guy.

Jon Jones winding down on why he made U-turn on retirement
Jon Jones winding down on why he made U-turn on retirement (Source: X)

Tom Aspinall paces himself like a 170-pounder, slipping and charging for first-round KOs; he touts numerous of them. The UFC stats leaderboard has him averaging least downtime on the mat, a high strike differential, and proves him indomitable. With just around 2:02 logged fight time in his total UFC tenure, it could very well be that he becomes the one to KO Jones.

So, Jones stalled it with several months of rumored PPV compensation, with a dangled amount ranging somewhere from $11-30 million. Often times in his lengthy tweets, Jon Jones stated wanting ‘something more’, some value-added factor to risk such a fight. That contemplative counter holds, as the UFC CEO recently said brass was down with Jones’ ask for an extended camp and device of PPV compensations.

Now that the White House card could be a thing, the Albuquerque based fighter has found his ‘something more’ as a drive to return to. It is something that justifies his sensational retirement and then an equally abrupt U-Turn in just two weeks:

Donald made his announcement on the morning of the Fourth of July —  I called the UFC headquarters that very same afternoon, …I’ll just leave it at that. America! Now that tickles my pickle…[Yea]It would be, [All-time classic fight] …for me it’s about the opportunity to represent America at the White House. I don’t care who I fight that night. I found my reason why, that’s what I needed, something that was more than money.

Jon Jones in a late reply-post on his X (@JonnyBones)

Again, there’s no guarantee Aspinall gets it this time. For once more, it could just be ‘legacy’ first, ‘heavy is the crown’, and a tit-for-tat hunting which escapes the UK Native totally. However, Dana White said on the FULLSENDPODCAST that a Jones vs. Aspinall PPV main event would be his go-to option for a White House card. For now, it’s a little all up in the air.

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