{"id":183988,"date":"2016-01-28T21:08:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T05:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=183988"},"modified":"2017-02-03T20:14:38","modified_gmt":"2017-02-04T04:14:38","slug":"watch-dana-white-confirms-stipe-miocic-was-not-offered-jon-jones-title-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/watch-dana-white-confirms-stipe-miocic-was-not-offered-jon-jones-title-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH! 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Rumblings were going on that heavyweight contender Stipe Miocic turned down a fight with former light heavyweight champion Jon Jones <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/jon-bones-jones-offering-his-services-for-ufc-196-on-one-condition\/\">when Jones offered<\/a> to go up to heavyweight and fight for a title and save the UFC 196 card.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/miocic-didnt-turn-down-fight-with-jones\/\">Miocic took to Twitter<\/a> to ensure everyone that he did no such thing.<\/p>\n<p>Check out UFC President Dana White talk about the situation alongside former UFC welterweight champion Matt Serra who were guests on Opie Radio.<\/p>\n<p>White did say that Jon Jones and current UFC light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier will be fighting later this year, but no date was mentioned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/VB9aIcb_IAk?t=23m20s After the recent debacle of the heavyweight title picture with Cain Velasquez and Fabricio Werdum pulling out of their title fights, there was a rumor floating around the Internet. Rumblings were going on that heavyweight contender Stipe Miocic turned down a fight with former light heavyweight champion Jon Jones when Jones offered to go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54422,"featured_media":178755,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10112,2682],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>WATCH! 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