Jon Jones is going to fight Stipe Miocic, no matter what.
Jones won the UFC heavyweight title by submitting Ciryl Gane at UFC 285 17 months ago. He was then scheduled to defend it against Stipe Miocic at UFC 296 before suffering an injury that forced him from the bout. Since then Jones has been recovering, with the intention of returning against Miocic later this year, despite the emergence of interim champion Tom Aspinall.