UFC heavyweight champion, Jon Jones has made his intentions to retire from the sport of mixed martial arts following his end-of-year title defense against Stipe Miocic – turning down talk of a potential grudge match with middleweight kingpin, Israel Adesanya.
Jones, the recently minted undisputed heavyweight champion under the UFC banner, managed to clinch his second Octagon title back in March with a truly dominant first round submission win over Ciryl Gane – stopping the Frenchman with a opening frame guillotine choke.
However, during his time atop the light heavyweight throne, Jones appeared to be on a definite collision course with Adesanya – who held middleweight gold at the same time as the former’s second reign at 205lbs.