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Jon Jones is no longer completely dismissing a UFC heavyweight title unification bout with Tom Aspinall, but he is going to require a hefty paycheck to make it happen.
Speaking to reporters at the UFC 309 post-show press conference, Jones explained UFC needs to pay him “f–k you money” to fight Aspinall because he doesn’t like the interim champion:
“He’s annoying to me. He’s annoying to me and that’s my own personal—he annoys me. I get it you guys find it entertaining, but I find him annoying. I just don’t like him and at the end of the day, if I give him the opportunity to fight me, I want to be so compensated-I want to say it, I want that ‘f–k you’ money, honestly. That’s just what it is. Or else my life is perfect without him. I don’t need him at all and he needs me and that’s a good place to be in a negotiation.”
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