For the second year in a row, the UFC has booked Jon Jones to defend the UFC heavyweight title against former two-time champ Stipe Miocic at Madison Square Garden.
Let’s try this again.
For the second year in a row, the UFC has booked Jon Jones to defend the UFC heavyweight title against former two-time champ Stipe Miocic for its annual Madison Square Garden event, UFC CEO Dana White told Complex in an interview published Saturday.
“Jon Jones is gonna fight at Madison Square Garden in November,” White told the outlet.
The new fight, which will headline UFC 309 on Nov. 16, is a make-up for the original 2023 booking, which was torpedoed just over two weeks before UFC 295 by a pectoral muscle injury to Jones.
White has been steadfast in ensuring Jones vs. Miocic was rebooked as the champion’s first fight after surgery to repair the injury, and signs had indicated the fight would, in fact, come to the Garden after all even before White’s confirmation in the hours leading up to UFC 306 on Saturday at The Sphere in Las Vegas.
