Sorry! Stipe Miocic apologizes for calling Jon Jones a b—tch: ‘I wasn’t trying to disrespect him’ | UFC 309

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Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Heavyweight champion, Jon Jones, makes his highly-anticipated return at UFC 309 this weekend (Sat., Nov. 16, 2024) against former division kingpin, Stipe Miocic, from inside Madison Square Garden in New York City.

The build-up between the two headliners for this Heavyweight championship fight has been pretty quiet until this past weekend. However, Jones then caught wind of Miocic calling him a “b—tch” on Countdown to UFC 309 (watch it here) and randomly flipped out on social media.

“Hiring black fighters to mimic me will not help you, Stipe,” Jones wrote. “And you shouldn’t have called me a b—ch, the disrespect wasn’t necessary. Let’s play,”

Today (Mon., Nov. 11, 2024), during an interview with Ariel Helwani, Miocic walked back from calling Jones a female dog and apologized.

“He was talking to me, I was talking to him,” Miocic said. “Bring it on. Sorry if I hurt his feelings. I wasn’t trying to disrespect him. It was just the heat of the moment.”

Jones has not responded to Miocic’s apology as of this writing. Still, the week has just started, and there will be several opportunities, whether at media day or the pre-fight press conference.

If UFC 309’s pay-per-view (PPV) main event needed any boost, maybe this random bad blood was what it needed.

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LEGACY ON THE LINE! Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) returns to “The Big Apple” in New York, N.Y., on Sat., Nov. 16, 2024, with the long-awaited, legacy-defining Heavyweight showdown between reigning division champion, Jon Jones, looking to ride off into the sunset as the bonafide G.O.A.T. at the expense of former kingpin, Stipe Miocic. In UFC 309’s pay-per-view (PPV) co-headliner from inside Madison Square Garden, former Lightweight champion, Charles Oliveira, will run it back with Michael Chandler, who has been sitting on the sidelines unsuccessfully waiting for Conor McGregor’s ill-fated comeback. UFC 309 will also feature the exciting returns of super prospects Mauricio Ruffy and Bo Nickal (in separate fights) and so much more! UFC 309’s start time is scheduled for 6 p.m. ET (Prelims card) and 10 p.m. ET (PPV main card).

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