"Bones" Jones sent word today asking the UFC chairman to terminate his contract with him and voluntarily give up the UFC light heavyweight championship belt.
The cause of the incident stemmed from the recent game between the two, Jones wants to raise the weight to challenge the "iron-blooded" Nagano, which will become the most anticipated super battle in 2020, but UFC Chairman Bai Dana believes that Jones is a "lion with a big mouth" and the appearance fee is too high.
After receiving a somewhat sarcastic reply from Bai Dana, somewhat irritated Jones, and then he issued a statement that he was considering giving up the title and looking forward to starting boxing matches, "Even if I started playing as a rookie, one boxing match is more than I have earned in three defending titles." In general, the UFC will give the defending champion a $500,000 appearance fee, which is indeed much less than the appearance fee of boxing in the case of champion players.
If Jones does run away, it will undoubtedly make the MMA level miss a big point of view, after all, he is the absolute strongest in theory (the king of P4P), if it were not for a violation of the bat, his career would have been 27 games never beaten.
Coincidentally, UFC Chairman Dana Bai has just revealed that he has lost at least $100 million this year. The United States was affected by the epidemic, the NBA, MLB, NHL three major American sports leagues have not yet started, the UFC can barely close the museum to hold the game against all odds, but due to no on-site audience and the cancellation of several overseas games, the direct loss is calculated by 100 million yuan.
At present, the Control of the Epidemic in the United States is still far away, if the new crown pneumonia is normalized, it will be a huge blow to the United States and the world, coupled with the difficult racial conflict in the United States, it is really difficult for the UFC to get back on track as quickly as possible. Don't forget that on October 1, 2017, at the UFC's Las Vegas base camp, a vicious shooting incident occurred, killing 59 people and injuring more than 500 people, forcing the then-close UFC 216 issue to have a very low attendance and immerse the arena in a state of panic. Therefore, only when the society is stable, can the sports events be stable and profitable.