{"id":352160,"date":"2020-06-04T05:59:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T12:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=352160"},"modified":"2020-06-04T05:59:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T12:59:31","slug":"dana-white-discusses-current-drama-with-jon-jones-eventually-you-get-to-a-point-where-you-get-tired-of-fighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/dana-white-discusses-current-drama-with-jon-jones-eventually-you-get-to-a-point-where-you-get-tired-of-fighting\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White discusses current drama with Jon Jones: \u201cEventually you get to a point where you get tired of fighting\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC President Dana White recently opened up on his public dispute with UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones.<\/p>\n<p>Tensions between the light heavyweight champion and the UFC president have reached an <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/dana-white-says-jon-jones-future-is-up-to-him\/\">all-time high<\/a>. Jones announced he was vacating his title after matchup negotiations for a Francis Ngannou fight turned sour.<\/p>\n<p>White announced that the fighter was asking too much for the possible heavyweight showdown. Jones denied ever making an ask and accused the organization of not paying him what he is worth. The UFC president hasn&#8217;t admitted to lying, but admitted that that he doesn&#8217;t agree with Jones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re not always going to agree on everything,\u201d White said on Eddie Hearn\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=emIRFxOr4Kc&amp;feature=emb_logo\"><em>Talk the Talk<\/em><\/a> podcast (transcript via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2020\/6\/3\/21279751\/dana-white-confident-hell-eventually-figure-it-out-with-jon-jones-despite-current-tension\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA Fighting<\/a>). \u201cJon Jones and I do not agree on something right now. We\u2019re having a disagreement, but Jon Jones is a partner in this business. Conor McGregor is a partner in this business. The list goes on and on. When you get to that level, when you become a star or a world champion like these guys are, they\u2019re a partner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jones has been keeping busy helping out in his hometown of Albuquerque, New Mexico during the coronavirus pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests. It is unclear if he has decided to hang up his MMA gloves for good, but Dana White admits there is a point that you get tired of fighting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t agree right now on things, and we\u2019re going to fight and we say things, the thing that\u2019s going on in public, and eventually you get to a point where you get tired of fighting and you figure it out,&#8221; White said. &#8220;It\u2019s like any other relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What do you think will come of the ongoing dispute between Dana White and Jon Jones? Do you think we&#8217;ll see Jones back in the Octagon soon?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC President Dana White recently opened up on his public dispute with UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones. Tensions between the light heavyweight champion and the UFC president have reached an all-time high. Jones announced he was vacating his title after matchup negotiations for a Francis Ngannou fight turned sour. White announced that the fighter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54472,"featured_media":336778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10112,10091,39610],"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>Dana White discusses current drama with Jon Jones: \u201cEventually you get to a point where you get tired of fighting\u201d | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UFC President Dana White recently opened up on his ongoing public contract dispute with UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones.\u00a0\" \/>\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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