UFC CEO Dana White has no intention of booking Jon Jones to the promotion's proposed event at the White House in 2026, despite Jones' interest.

Jones, 38, retired from MMA in June instead of accepting a UFC heavyweight title unification bout against interim champion Tom Aspinall . Just weeks after his retirement, however, Jones announced that he was planning a comeback, citing the UFC's plans to host an event at the White House as the reason.

Despite Jones' desire to fight on the card, White all but nixed the idea Saturday.

"I would not bet on it," White said during the UFC 319 postfight news conference in Chicago. "If I had to make odds, it's a billion-to-1 odds I put Jon Jones on the White House card."

White has cited Jones' unreliability as the reason to exclude him from the eve

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