UFC CEO Dana White may have set the odds for Jon Jones participating in the proposed July 4 card at the White House at "a billion to one," during the UFC 319 post-fight press conference, but the former light heavyweight and heavyweight champion sees White's statement as a door not entirely shut.

Jones, 38, was expected to do a title unification fight with Tom Aspinall for well over a year but ended up vacating the belt, retiring, and putting the UFC heavyweight division on hold.

Jon Jones issued his first statement in response to Dana White and the UFC’s proposed event at the White House. Jones retired, and then abruptly unretired following the reveal that the promotion plans to hold a fight card on the White House’s South Lawn in Washington,