Jon Jones stormed out of an interview before it even started and requested a different interviewer ahead of UFC 309.
Jones makes his highly-anticipated UFC return this weekend as he defends his UFC heavyweight championship against Stipe Miocic in the main-event of UFC 309.
But the build-up has been dominated over claims he won't fight interim UFC heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall, who has been calling for a unification clash.
Ahead of facing Miocic, Jones was scheduled to speak with Adam Catterall for TNT Sports.
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However, he refused to be interviewed by Adam as he eventually conducted an interview with TNT Sports, having spoken to Nick Peet.
Before taking his seat, Jones told his team: "Hey, I'm not going to do this interview.... you know, because it's going to be an Aspinall fest. I'm not going to do it."
After leaving the room, he told Adam: "Hey bro, nothing personal," he as referenced his ties with Aspinall.
"Common sense tells me what type of questions I’m just going to get asked," the UFC champion continued.
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Speaking during his UFC 309 media day, Jones made his feelings clear regarding a showdown against Aspinall, stating he doesn't want to do business with the British star.
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"If I’m being completely honest, I feel like Tom’s been such an assh*le that I don’t want to do business with him," he said via MMA Fighting.
"His fans have been so annoying and obviously you don’t get this far in a career being affected by fans or what not, but he’s just an assh**e. He’s 30 so he’s from this influencer generation where you hop online with the t-shirt sales and all that. I’m past that type of stuff. I’m like bro if you had a little bit more respect then maybe we could have something out. I just don’t even want to do business with him.
"At the end of the day, this is a business. Fighting me gives him the opportunity to change his life forever. I don’t even want to give him the opportunity. He just played his cards wrong with me personally. I’m three years from being a 40-year-old grown man. The press conference, going through the whole shebang with him, I’d rather not do."
Topics: Jon Jones, Tom Aspinall, UFC
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