Jon Jones responds to Tom Aspinall’s latest shot, confident he’d still ‘whip his ass’ (2024)

The feud between Jon Jones and Tom Aspinall is growing into one of the best in MMA.

The UFC heavyweight champion unleashed a flood of tweets Friday morning as he answered trolls and fans on social media. It was triggered by Aspinall responding to Jones’ vulgar response on Instagram, questioning Jones’ legacy because of his checkered past with PED use.

This caused Jones to answer these legacy questions directly on X.

“Yep, worked my ass to prove my innocence,” Jones wrote in a reply to a Twitter user. “Now picograms are legal in our sport. Honestly, none of that will matter a few years from now when I’m covering my kids tuition. You guys still laughing about what happened at the office, I’m outside on a golf cart.”

Jones has a long history with failed drug tests, most notably for his failed tests surrounding UFC 200 in July 2016, which resulted in his removal from the card just days in advance. In that incident, Jones tested positive for two banned substances which he successfully argued he ingested through a contaminated product.

A year later at UFC 214, Jones tested positive for turinabol which he again argued was the result of a contaminated product. He then tested positive for the same metabolites ahead of UFC 232, but doctors deemed that to be the result of a long-term “pulsing effect” of the metabolite, and not a separate incident. In 2019, USADA then set new threshold levels for certain drugs, which Jones argued “exonerates him” from his previous testing issues.

Jones then turned to questions claiming that he is avoiding a showdown with UFC interim heavyweight champion Aspinall by likely facing Stipe Miocic at UFC 309.

Bro, absolutely. I’m getting close to being in fight shape and I’m weighing in at 245 now. He probably cuts weight to get down to heavyweight. The night we fought he would probably weigh a solid 25 pounds more than me, seven years younger, and I would still whip his ass like I’ve done everyone else. You guys can go ahead and believe the hype, I’ll keep doing what I’ve always done, win

Maybe I’ll leave you with blue balls, but my legacy will be just fine. I’ve done way too much work in this game. There’s people around the world that’s been watching me fight since they can remember. He would have to go on and win like 10 championships at least in order for that to happen. The work I put in, that body of work ain’t getting touched no time soon.

Aspinall surely won’t miss his chance to respond in the coming days.

Jed Meshew contributed to this report.