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Jon \u201cI have severe arthritis,\u201d Jones said in a video via Home of Fight. Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Since that video became a hot topic of conversation in the MMA “Looks like a private conversation I had at DBX 5 in Houston made While Jones\u2019 admission was unwittingly captured on camera, the “If you\u2019re wondering whether it\u2019s true, it is. I\u2019m grateful for all “Even after becoming one of the most accomplished fighters in the Jones hasn\u2019t competed since November 2024, when he defeated “The UFC knows the extent of my arthritis,\u201d Jones said. They also “Whether that fight happens or not, my career has been one for the Jon Jones said he spent his camp for UFC 309 in pain. | Getty\/UFC Jon Jones didn\u2019t know he was being recorded when he revealed that \u201csevere arthritis\u201d would prevent him from considering a wrestling match against Daniel Cormier at a future Real American Freestyle event. \u201cI have severe arthritis,\u201d Jones said in a video […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36620,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-martial-arts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nJones<\/a> didn\u2019t know he was being recorded when he
\nrevealed<\/a> that \u201csevere arthritis\u201d would prevent him from
\nconsidering a wrestling match against Daniel
\nCormier<\/a> at a future Real American Freestyle event.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cMost people don\u2019t know that. My left hip is covered in arthritis.
\nI actually already qualified for hip replacement. My last training
\ncamp I went to bed in so much pain.\u201d<\/p>\n
\ncommunity, Jones addressed his condition in an interview with
\nTMZ Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nits way out into the wild,” Jones said. “It happens. Like most
\nfighters, we deal with injuries quietly sometimes and like in my
\ncase, for years. A lot of us walk around limping most days, paying
\nthe ultimate price for our health.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nformer
\nUFC<\/a> two-division champion confirmed that he has battled
\narthritis in the later stages of his career.<\/p>\n
\nmy battle scars, and if I could do it all over again, I absolutely
\nwould without hesitation. It’s been what I wake up for in my career
\neveryday,\u201d Jones said.<\/p>\n
\nhistory of the sport, my critics still give me grief about slowing
\ndown over the past few years. That\u2019s called living to fight another
\nday taking the lessons learned and applying them to business
\ninstead of the Octagon. It’s called evolution.\u201d<\/p>\nNot a Secret<\/h2>\n
\nStipe
\nMiocic<\/a> via third-round TKO in the UFC 309 headliner. After
\nturning down a Tom
\nAspinall<\/a> fight and a brief retirement, \u201cBones\u201d re-entered the
\ndrug testing pool in hopes of competing at the UFC White House
\nevent. That\u2019s something, despite his apparent physical limitations,
\nthat Jones still hopes to achieve.<\/p>\n
\nknow that if I were to put it all on the line one last time and
\nendure that level of pain, the reward would have to be something
\nspecial and something more than a fat payday. For me, that was and
\nis still the White House.<\/p>\n
\nages and nothing short of legendary,\u201d Jones added. \u201cI left a big
\npart of myself in that Octagon, and I\u2019m grateful for every bit of
\nit. And don\u2019t get it twisted, I\u2019ll still kick 99% of your asses out
\nthere. Still putting up big numbers under the squat rack. Still
\ntraining. Still outworking most of you … just maybe after a
\nproper warm-up and a good stretch.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"