Jon Jones Shares Post-Surgery Update After Pec Injury

Jon Jones is on the highway to restoration after happening with a severe harm forward of UFC 295 … displaying off his bandaged-up pec following surgical procedure final week.

Bones was pressured to again out of his massive heavyweight championship bout in opposition to Stipe Miocic after he tore his muscle proper off the bone in a coaching session … suspending the highly-anticipated matchup till 2024.

Jones wasted no time fixing his ailment by going underneath the knife … and on Tuesday, he posted a video revealing Steri-Strips — that are used to carry incisions collectively — close to his shoulder.

Jones did not speak within the quick clip … however he actually did not must — you possibly can inform by his facial features he is simply as bummed as everybody else about not with the ability to combat on Nov. 11 at Madison Sq. Backyard.

Within the meantime, Sergei Pavlovich will now tackle Tom Aspinall for the interim heavyweight title on the Backyard … which would be the co-main occasion alongside the Jiri Prochazka vs. Alex Pereira combat.

Jones additionally shared a post-op vid final week … confirming he had gotten the process accomplished and was prepared for the subsequent steps in his comeback. Dr. Neal ElAttrache — who recently labored on Aaron Rodgers‘ Achilles — carried out the surgical procedure.

Stipe claims he wasn’t requested to remain on the 295 card … however both means, he is able to get the title again from Jones when the time comes.

“The fight being canceled, it sucks,” Stipe mentioned. “No question about it. Unfortunately, that’s just the game we’re in. It happens. Like I said, I hope he’s okay. You want to be the best; you’ve got to beat the best. I want that belt back. It’s my belt. It’s going to happen.”

Dana White mentioned it’ll take eight months for Jones to get again to 100%, however orthopedic surgeons like Dr. David Abbasi say he could possibly be again in half the time.