UFC heavyweight champion, Jon Jones has revealed he has struck a verbal agreement with promotional brass on a return to the Octagon for the first time since March of last year, amid continued links to a title defense against former champion, Stipe Miocic.
Jones, a former undisputed light heavyweight titleholder twice under the banner of the promotion, has been sidelined since March of last year, where he landed the vacant heavyweight crown with a first round guillotine choke submission win over Ciryl Gane.
And slated to make his comeback at UFC 295 back in November at Madison Square Garden, Rochester native, Jones, a former pound-for-pound number one ranked fighter, was forced from a title defense against the above-mentioned, Miocic.