BREAKING NEWS Jon Jones RETIRES from UFC, Dana White reveals in shock announcement
Dana White has revealed that Jon Jones has retired from the UFC in a bombshell announcement.
Jones was the promotion's undisputed heavyweight champion but his title has now been passed to Tom Aspinall.
White made the announcement in an explosive press conference in Baku, Azerbaijan on Saturday.
He revealed Jones called on Friday night to inform White and UFC officials that he would not be fighting again.
More to follow.
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This was a day of terrific drama, and everything that had been hoped for in advance of the series. After India's dominant first day, England surged back with ball and bat, throwing the game into delicate balance. England, closing on 209 for three and still 262 in arrears, have an enormous amount of work to do after losing the big wicket of Joe Root late in the day, but they are in the contest. Things could have been worse when in an extraordinary nine-ball over from Jasprit Bumrah to conclude the day, Harry Brook — still yet to score — was caught off a no ball. It was more than Brook deserved: it was an atrocious hack into the leg side. Bumrah, who showed himself to be the champion he is by taking three for 48, took out his anger by roasting Brook with a couple of 90mph rip-snorters. Game on. Arguments about Ben Stokes's decision at the toss thus evaporated on the hot breeze, as did the never-ending questions about Ollie Pope's right to bat three. He had some fortune, being dropped in the gully on 60 by Yashasvi Jaiswal, but he played a terrific innings, shaping his team's reply in the way batsmen in his position in the order are supposed to. Pope sprinted frantically into the thirties, after which he calmed down, but this is his way. He got into a terrible mix-up with Ben Duckett in which either man might have been run out but neither was. Later, he narrowly escaped falling leg-before to Mohammed Siraj. But at just after 7pm, play having been extended owing to a rain-break, Pope reached a superb ninth Test century off 125 balls and celebrated with a couple of meaningful fist-pumps. He had spoken about the need to back up Test hundreds and for the first time he has done so, this innings coming hard on the heels of his 171 against Zimbabwe at Trent Bridge. 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