Jon Jones vs Stipe Miocic official for UFC 309
The Final Preventing Championship has lastly booked the return of former UFC light-heavyweight and present UFC heavyweight champion Jon Jones, who’s scheduled to face former two-time UFC heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic this fall at UFC 309.
UFC 309 is to go down on November 16, 2024, reside from Madison Sq. Backyard in New York Metropolis.
These two have been initially slated to face each other on the final MSG card, UFC 295, final yr in November. Nonetheless, Jones suffered a pectoral tear within the lead up and was compelled from the bout courtesy of the harm.
The UFC then booked an interim heavyweight title conflict between prime heavyweight contenders Tom Aspinall and Sergei Pavlovich, Aspinall of which received the bout through KO in simply 69 seconds, emphatically stopping the person that got here in on a six-fight first spherical knockout streak.
The Englishman has since defended that interim title towards Curtis Blaydes in July at UFC 304, knocking Blaydes out in 60 seconds and avenging the one defeat of his UFC profession.
Aspinall’s declare of the interim title, and particularly his title protection, together with the actual fact Jones hasn’t fought in nicely over a yr, many followers consider Aspinall ought to’ve been promoted to undisputed champion.
Jones hasn’t fought since his heavyweight debut in March of 2023 at UFC 285, the place it took him simply two minutes to submit former interim champion Ciryl Gane and turn out to be a two-division world champion. He has teased that he’d be going through Miocic in November at MSG for a great portion of this yr, but it surely’s relieving to see it’s truly booked for that occasion and the wait is almost over.
Miocic hasn’t fought since dropping the title to former and lineal UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou again in March of 2021.
One can solely hope the winner of this combat sticks round and makes an attempt to unify the titles with Aspinall.
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