Jon Jones and Stipe Miocic is not going to compete for the UFC heavyweight championship in New York subsequent month after Jones ruptured his pectoral tendon throughout coaching.
UFC President Dana White said Jones was injured. Throughout Monday’s coaching session. The heavyweight champion would require surgical procedure and will probably be out for at the very least eight months, forcing him to withdraw from the principle occasion of UFC 295, scheduled for Nov. 11 at Madison Sq. Backyard.
White stated Sergei Pavlovich and Tom Aspinall will struggle for the interim heavyweight title. The sunshine heavyweight title match between Jiri Prochaska and Alex Pereira has been postponed to the principle occasion.
Jones ended his three-year sabbatical from the UFC in March and moved as much as the best division, defeating Cyril Gane to win the vacant championship in the principle occasion of UFC 285.
Jones stated after that struggle that he wished Miocic, the No. 2 candidate and whom Jones referred to as the best heavyweight of all time. White stated the match befell and the MSG date was set.
Jones has already asserted himself as the most effective gentle heavyweight with a file 14 title struggle wins, a UFC-best 18-fight unbeaten streak and one no-contest. He has a file of 26 wins and 1 loss.
He acquired a one-year suspension in 2016 for failing a drug check, and his 2017 victory over Daniel Cormier was a no-contest after one other optimistic drug check.
The U.S. Anti-Doping Company modified its standards for what is taken into account a optimistic check in 2019 and introduced that Jones would have handed underneath the revised standards.
Miocic is a former two-time heavyweight champion who final fought in March 2021 when he dropped the belt to Francis Ngannou at UFC 280.
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