Dominick Reyes demands Jon Jones to be stripped of title

Amid the coronavirus, the UFC has had to ramp up its schedule and produce more fights than ever before. Mostly all of the UFC titles had been in contention during the pandemic except the light heavyweight division. 

Jon Jones has been in a public dispute over pay with the UFC and has stated he is willing to sit out. 

Former title contender, Dominick Reyes, is calling for the division to move on.

Recently on an interview with Sirus XM, Reyes gave his thoughts on the current status of the division. 

“If he’s not gonna fight, then you’re done,” Reyes said. “You’re done. You’re stripped, it’s over ‘cause he retired. I mean I guess it’s not stripped, it’s more retired. He said he’d walk away.”

Dominick Reyes fought Jon Jones for the light heavyweight division in Feb at UFC 247. Following the unanimous decision loss to Jones, Reyes called for an immediate rematch. The UFC was on board but Jones was not.  

When asked why the rematch fell through Reyes responded. 

“It was the pandemic and Jon,” Reyes said. “Jon didn’t want to fight. He flat out said, ‘No.’ … There was no date, nothing like that, it was like, we want to run the rematch but Jon doesn’t want to do it. Everybody was down except for Jon and his whole thing was money so he turned it into, ‘Oh, I’m a champion for everybody else to get paid more.’ But this has nothing to do with anyone else. It has 100 percent to do with his pockets only.

“I don’t know, he’s trying to twist and make it so he can get more fans, ‘I’m a champion for the fighters, I’m doing all these other things.’ He should have just fought me.”

Reyes is calling for the division to move on if Jones is not willing to fight. When presented with the scenario of Jon Jones staying sidelined then returning to reclaim the belt, Reyes responds. 

“You can’t sit out two years with a new champion and then be like, ‘Well, I’m the undisputed champ,’” Reyes said. “You quit.”

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