Jon Jones wants ‘f–k you money’ from the UFC to face Tom Aspinall

Jon Jones sounds like he really doesn’t want to fight Tom Aspinall.

But everyone has a price.

The 37-year-old, who successfully defended his UFC heavyweight title on Saturday night against Stipe Miocic at the Garden, has said he does not like Aspinall, who won the interim heavyweight title last year when the initial Jones-Miocic bout was canceled due to .to Jones’ chest injury.

“He annoys me and that’s my own personal – he annoys me,” Jones said after Saturday’s win by Aspinall, who has mocked Jones for not facing him. “I come to you guys, you think it’s entertaining, but I find him annoying and I just don’t like him, and at the end of the day, if I give him the opportunity to fight me, I want to be compensated – I’ll say it, I want the ‘f–k you’ money, honestly. It just is.”

While Jones didn’t specify exactly how much money he’s looking for, he said he’d be looking for a “very, very high number.”

“I want to be compensated to the point where if I won or lost, it really wouldn’t matter,” Jones said.

Dana White said during a pre-fight press conference on Thursday that the winner of the Jones-Miocic fight should go on to face Aspinall in a title fight.

However, Jones has said he would prefer to face Alex Pereira, the current UFC light heavyweight champion.

“I don’t need (Aspinall) at all and he needs me and that’s a good place to be in a negotiation,” Jones said.

When told on Saturday night that Jones wanted to be heavily compensated for a fight against Aspinall, White replied: “He will be.”

Miocic, the 42-year-old former heavyweight champion, said after the fight that he is retiring.