{"id":320253,"date":"2019-07-24T06:03:41","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T13:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=320253"},"modified":"2019-07-24T06:03:41","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T13:03:41","slug":"jon-jones-hints-that-he-could-return-sooner-than-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/jon-jones-hints-that-he-could-return-sooner-than-planned\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Jones hints that he could return sooner than planned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After his split decision victory over Thiago Santos at UFC 239 in early July, Jon Jones divulged that he plans to return to action on the UFC&#8217;s big end-of-the-year card in December.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonnyBones\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on Twitter<\/a> on Tuesday night, however, the UFC light heavyweight champion hinted at an expedited return, suggesting that he&#8217;d be willing to fight on the UFC&#8217;s annual November return to Madison Square Garden in New York City.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Madison Square Garden in November?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BONY (@JonnyBones) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonnyBones\/status\/1153838910042071041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 24, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Madison Square Garden in November?&#8221; Jones wrote in a Tweet.<\/p>\n<p>Fight fans \u2014 particularly those in New York City \u2014 unsurprisingly took this suggestion well, and engaged Jones on the topic.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Means I would have to jump right back into camp, I think I\u2019m up for it. Pretty sure actually <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BtnfIGisBZ\">https:\/\/t.co\/BtnfIGisBZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BONY (@JonnyBones) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonnyBones\/status\/1153839349252837376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 24, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Means I would have to jump right back into camp, I think I\u2019m up for it,&#8221; Jones wrote in response to one fan. &#8220;Pretty sure actually.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Given that Jones hails from the state of New York, it would actually make quite a bit of sense for him to compete on this Madison Square Garden card. The light heavyweight champion, who stands out as one of the UFC&#8217;s biggest stars, has yet to fight inside Madison Square Garden, having not been available at the time of any of the promotion&#8217;s previous visits to the hallowed Manhattan arena. This year, the timing could seemingly line up perfectly.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Jones has maintained a very busy schedule since his return from a United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) suspension, first stopping Alexander Gustafsson in December, then thwarting Anthony Smith and Santos in March and July respectively, both by decision.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think we&#8217;ll see him back in the cage in November instead of December?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPENN.COM<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 7\/24\/2019. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After his split decision victory over Thiago Santos at UFC 239 in early July, Jon Jones divulged that he plans to return to action on the UFC&#8217;s big end-of-the-year card in December. Speaking on Twitter on Tuesday night, however, the UFC light heavyweight champion hinted at an expedited return, suggesting that he&#8217;d be willing to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":296816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10091,39610],"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>Jon Jones hints that he could return sooner than planned | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones teases an expedited return to the cage, quite a bit earlier than his original December plan.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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