Let’s try again.

For the second year in a row, the UFC has booked Jon Jones to defend his heavyweight title against former two-time champion Stipe Miocic at the annual Madison Square Garden event, UFC CEO Dana White told Complex in an interview published Saturday.

“Jon Jones is going to fight in Madison Square Garden in November,” White told the outlet.

The new fight, which is set to headline UFC 309 on Nov. 16, is a makeover for Jones’ original 2023 booking, which was canceled more than two weeks before UFC 295 due to a pectoral muscle injury.

White has always been adamant that Jones vs. Miocic be rebooked as the champion’s first fight back from surgery to repair the injury. There were signs that the fight would ultimately go to the Garden even before White made his confirmation in the hours leading up to UFC 306 on Saturday at The Sphere in Las Vegas.

The plan to have the two heavyweights fight for the championship came about despite months of complaints from fans and media that the fight would be less relevant now that Tom Aspinall has become interim champion.

Jones, the former light heavyweight champion who won the vacant belt in March of last year after titleholder Francis Ngannou retired from the promotion, has insisted that the bout against Miocic, who won the heavyweight title in both 2016 and 2019 but has not fought since losing the title to Ngannou via knockout in 2021, is one that further adds to his already impressive legacy.

Many have speculated that Jones and Miocic could choose to hang up their gloves after the fight. That seems more likely in the case of the 42-year-old Miocic than the 37-year-old Jones.

Englishman Aspinall won the interim title, which was created to fill a void at UFC 295 following Jones’ injury, on November 11 last year at the Garden when he knocked out Russian heavyweight Sergei Pavlovich in the first round.

At 30, Aspinall is still young for an elite heavyweight, but he has made it clear that he wants to take on Jones and unify their titles.

The Manchester native successfully defended his interim title in July by knocking out Curtis Blaydes in the first round.

White admitted to Complex that the next step for the UFC 309 headliner and his promotion’s interim heavyweight champion remains uncertain nearly two months before the company’s eighth visit to the Garden.

“If (Jones) wins or Stipe wins, then we’ll see what happens after that, who retires, whatever,” White said.

That said, the UFC’s chief spokesman has his thoughts on how Jones, a native of Endicott, New York, who lives and trains in New Mexico, and Miocic, who is also a firefighter in Ohio, would move forward after their long-delayed clash of the titans.

“Do I think Stipe will retire? Yeah, I think so. I think so. But you never know. Stipe might want to take the challenge (against Aspinall),” White said. “But I know for sure, if Jon Jones wins that fight, and all the talk that’s out there, there’s no way he won’t fight Aspinall.”