Jon Jones mocks Tom Aspinall and petition asking for him to be stripped of UFC heavyweight title

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Jon Jones clearly isn’t stressing about public pressure on him to make a decision on fighting Tom Aspinall or potentially giving up his UFC heavyweight title.

On Saturday, Jones dropped a message on Twitter celebrating the seminar he just held in Thailand, which he says was filled with people who actually flew over from the United Kingdom to meet him. As a result, Jones thanked Aspinall for all the attention he’s been giving lately with videos and online posts about the continued delays in booking a fight between them.

“Just wrapped up the biggest seminar in Phuket history,” Jones wrote on Twitter. “Half the crowd flew in from the UK—how wild is that?! Massive shoutout to my guy Tom for all the free promo… couldn’t have done it without you.

“Seriously though, I’m beyond grateful for this brand new UK following. You guys showed up with so much love and energy, and I felt every bit of it.”

While Jones still hasn’t given any definitive answer about his future, he’s poked fun at Aspinall for all the times he’s talked about their highly publicized fight, which UFC CEO Dana White has guaranteed will happen sometime in 2025.

Aspinall hasn’t fought since this past July when he defeated Curtis Blaydes to defend his interim UFC heavyweight title with Jones competing four months later when he demolished former champion Stipe Miocic.

Ever since that fight against Miocic ended, Jones has teased possibly fighting again or maybe walking away from the sport for good but the UFC remains steadfast that he’s going to return for a title unification bout against Aspinall.

In the meantime, an online petition was started asking the UFC to strip Jones of his heavyweight title, which would allow the division and Aspinall to move on without him.

Jones took that news in stride as well as he joked that he hopes the petition gets even more signatures in the near future.

“Let’s keep this momentum going—make sure to sign that petition today, we’re pushing 200k!” Jones wrote. “How exciting.”

For all the talk about stripping Jones, the UFC — and more notably White — haven’t even mentioned that as a possible plan of action. White has primarily just promised that he would eventually deliver the Jones vs. Aspinall fight but he’s offered no exact timeline when it could happen.

Obviously, Jones isn’t losing much sleep over the situation much less getting angry at continued jabs from Aspinall or the online petition seeking to take his title away from him.