White: Jones-Aspinall 'just a matter of getting it signed'

UFC CEO Dana White teased Friday that a heavyweight title unification bout between Jon Jones and Tom Aspinall is all but signed.

"The fight's gonna happen," White told TNT Sports' Adam Catterall. "It's just a matter of when now and getting it signed and done."

He added: "It's done, but it's not done. Not done enough to sit right here now and announce it and give you a date. But the fight's gonna happen. ... It's just a matter of getting it signed now."

Since Jones defended the heavyweight title against Stipe Miocic at UFC 309 last November, White has remained optimistic that the long-awaited matchup between Jones and Aspinall would come to fruition.

But Jones hasn't seemed overly eager to unify the belts with the 31-year-old Englishman, saying after his win over Miocic that the UFC would need to pay him "f--k you money" to get him to agree to the fight.

Aspinall, who's held the interim heavyweight title since November 2023, said earlier this week that Jones "has to fight me or retire."

White said he thinks Jones-Aspinall will be the biggest fight in the division's illustrious and longstanding history.

"Me and my crew believe that this is probably the biggest heavyweight fight we've done," White said. "When we pull this off and actually make the fight, announce it, and start leading up to it, this will be the biggest heavyweight fight in UFC history."