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Jon Jones defeated Ciryl Gane by first round submission in the main event of UFC 285 to become the new UFC Heavyweight Champion.
UFC President Dana White, after the event, has revealed that former UFC Heavyweight Champion Stipe Miocic will be next for Jones.
“I don’t know when, but he’s definitely fighting Stipe,” White told the media after the event (transcript via Milan Ordonez of Bloody Elbow). “He wants to fight Stipe so we’ll make the Stipe fight. And whatever he wants to do after that, we’ll be lucky if we get to see him again. Or maybe he doesn’t, maybe he retires after that. I don’t know.”
Miocic hasn’t competed since UFC 260 in March of 2021, where he suffered a second round knockout loss to Francis Ngannou.
