{"id":38317,"date":"2026-05-17T15:39:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T15:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Jon-Jones-hopes-to-end-UFC-contract-for-Francis-Ngannou-fight-201218"},"modified":"2026-05-17T15:39:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T15:39:16","slug":"jon-jones-hopes-to-end-ufc-contract-for-francis-ngannou-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/jon-jones-hopes-to-end-ufc-contract-for-francis-ngannou-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Jones hopes to end UFC contract for Francis Ngannou fight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Jon
\nJones<\/a> is interested in fighting Francis
\nNgannou<\/a> under the
\nMost Valuable Promotions<\/a> banner. <\/p>\n

Ngannou fought Philipe
\nLins<\/a> at
\nMost Valuable Promotions “Rousey vs. Carano”<\/a> on Saturday at the
\nIntuit Dome in Los Angeles, California. Ngannou put on a one-sided
\nbeating on Lins before knocking him out cold late in the first
\nround. <\/p>\n

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Jones, who was attending the event, expressed interest in a future
\nmatchup against Ngannou. However, Jones believes the hardest part
\nof making that fight happen will be getting out of his existing UFC
\ncontract. Since Dana White is unlikely to sign Ngannou to the
\n
\nUFC<\/a> again, Jones sees MVP as the only promotion to make that
\nfight.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve got to try to focus on getting out of my UFC contract,\u201d Jones
\nsaid during an interview on the Netflix broadcast . \u201cThat\u2019s going
\nto be the difficult part if this fight is going to happen. I don\u2019t
\nthink Dana is interested in doing business with Francis. So doing
\nit with MVP is probably going to be the only way to make it happen.
\nIf we can get out of my contract, that would be great.\u201d<\/p>\n

Common Ground: UFC Disputes<\/h2>\n

When Ngannou (19-3) was the UFC heavyweight champ, Jones (28-1)
\nkept teasing a fight against the Cameroonian, which never came to
\nfruition. Ngannou eventually parted ways with the UFC over a
\ncontract dispute in 2023 and signed with the PFL. Ngannou fought
\nonly once in the PFL before parting ways with them earlier this
\nyear. Meanwhile, Jones is currently having a falling out with the
\nUFC. While Jones retired as the heavyweight champion without
\nfighting interim champion Tom
\nAspinall<\/a>, \u201cBones\u201d started rallying for a return at the White
\nHouse card. However, Jones\u2019 name was missing after the card was
\nannounced, and he has since been asking for his release from the
\nUFC. 

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\n

Jon Jones<\/a> said
\nhe wants to get out of his UFC contract to fight Francis
\nNgannou<\/a> \ud83d\ude33<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think Dana\u2019s interested in doing business with Francis. If
\nwe can get out of my contract, that\u2019d be great.\u201d<\/p>\n

(via @MostVpromotions<\/a>)
\npic.twitter.com\/Glq6eadrf3<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Happy Punch (@HappyPunch)
\nMay 17, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Jon Jones is interested in fighting Francis Ngannou under the Most Valuable Promotions banner.  Ngannou fought Philipe Lins at Most Valuable Promotions “Rousey vs. Carano” on Saturday at the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles, California. Ngannou put on a one-sided beating on Lins before knocking him out cold late in the first round.  Advertisement Jones, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38317","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\/38317","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=38317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}