{"id":107757,"date":"2026-02-10T10:12:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T14:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/jon-jones-needs-hip-replacement-but-dreams-of-fighting-at-the-white-house\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T10:12:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T14:12:52","slug":"jon-jones-needs-hip-replacement-but-dreams-of-fighting-at-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mma\/jon-jones-needs-hip-replacement-but-dreams-of-fighting-at-the-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Jones: Needs hip replacement, but dreams of fighting at the White House"},"content":{"rendered":"UFC star Jon Jones recently revealed that he might need a hip replacement. This surprising statement came in a video shared on TikTok, where Jones was talking with UFC welterweight fighter Joaquin Buckley.\n\nIn the video, Jones was asked about the possibility of a wrestling match against his former rival, Daniel Cormier. Jones&#8217;s response surprised many.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I have severe arthritis, and most people don&#8217;t know it. My left hip is covered in arthritis. In fact, I already qualify for a hip replacement. In my last training camp, I felt a lot of pain when lying down.<\/p><cite>Jon Jones<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nJones, who at 38 years old is widely regarded as one of the best mixed martial artists of all time, has been a champion in two UFC weight classes.\n\nAlthough he initially announced his retirement, Jones has expressed interest in competing in a UFC event in June, he has even expressed his desire to fight against Alex Pereira at the White House.\n\nSpeculation about a possible wrestling match against Cormier grew after they both trained in a Russian wrestling reality series. However, it seems that this confrontation is not in the plans.\n\nJones hasn&#8217;t fought since he defended the heavyweight belt against Stipe Miocic in November 2024. In the last six years, he has only had three appearances.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC star Jon Jones recently revealed that he might need a hip replacement. This surprising statement came in a video shared on TikTok, where Jones was talking with UFC welterweight fighter Joaquin Buckley. In the video, Jones was asked about the possibility of a wrestling match against his former rival, Daniel Cormier. Jones&#8217;s response surprised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[11792,11793,3390,228],"class_list":{"0":"post-107757","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-arthritis","9":"tag-hip-replacement","10":"tag-jon-jones","11":"tag-ufc"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}