The Ulitmate Fighting Championship (UFC) Interim Heavyweight champion is headed to āThe Big Appleā next month.
UFC Heavyweight champion Jon Jones vs. former Heavyweight kingpin Stipe Miocic is only a month away (Sat., Nov. 16, 2024) as the two legends will clash at UFC 309 inside Madison Square Garden in New York City.
Today (Mon., Oct. 14, 2024), Tom Aspinall, who holds the UFC Interim Heavyweight champion, revealed to Ariel Helwani that he is officially the backup and will step in if either Jones or Miocic canāt fight.
āYes, it is official,ā Aspinall said. āI mean, Dana [White] announced it a while ago now, but I didnāt actually hear anything from the UFC. But we actually spoke, and everything is going good and we came to an agreement about it.ā
Aspinall also revealed that UFC has big plans for him but would not let the cat out of the bag yet.
āWe know whatās happening going forward. We got plans,ā Aspinall said. āWe have future fight plans. Everything is right there. Itās going to be a good couple of years, let me tell ya. Big plans. Big, massive plansā¦[Jones or Miocic is next] Thatās what is happening. We got other options, too, in case one guy wants to retire and one wants to continue, or both guys want to retire. Whatever. We have all the bases covered.ā
It definitely seems like the UFC brass have a big plan for their British knockout machine, which is great to hear, as he is everything a promotion wants in a champion.
The only problem is he has beaten everyone in the Heavyweight Top 5, minus Ciryl Gane.
Jones pulls out. Aspinhall kills Stipe. They strip Jones and he retires or waits awhile and comes back to fight Gane again or Curtis Blaydes.
It shocks me how many people think Jon would lose to Tom.
I hate Jon as a human, but Iāve come to terms with the fact that weāll never get to see him get the savage late career beatings weāve all wanted him to have to take
Its not that he would lose, its again the continuation of history that we are living. How great is he? Why not let us the world watch how great he is and just go down in history without any stupid questions. This is what most all fighters do.
Thatās all we are saying.
He is past proving his greatness IMO. The Stipe fight is meaningless except for the fact that people have created and inhabited an alternate dimension where Stipe is the best heavyweight ever.
Jonās already hands down the best lhw ever, and he has an easy chance to beat the guy many people think is the best heavyweight ever. Heās got money and his years of proving his greatness are long over. Heās in the twilight of his career where heās picking fun fights. And as much as I hate him, heās earned it.
The real questions about his legacy will always be around his failed tests and usada special treatment, along with his many character flaws. To me, he isnāt answering stupid questions about fighting Aspinall because he thinks theyāre stupid and he truly doesnāt give a fuck what fans think
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Iām just going along with the joke. I think he would have a better chance against Aspnallās style than Stipeās. He loses to Francis though.
I think he beats all of them honestly.
I know MMA math doesnāt work, but gane as a common opponent and thinking about how their styles would collide doesnāt make me think Francis would be tough for him. I could be wrong
he passed one test in the USADA era
failed all the rest and/or loopholed them
pretty hilarious if you put it in that perspective
Heād rather fight Aspinall than Curtis Blaydes imo. Blaydes only struggles against huge punchers, jones probably has the least power in the division.
I think Jones takes down all of these heavyweights and submits them or pounds them out. Gordon Ryan said Jon is the most difficult opponent heās ever rolled with. Most heavyweights arenāt very good on the ground and Jon has the wrestling to take them down at will.
Jon has fought one HW
Only one
He has had an entire career to fight the big boys and he has only fought one
Jones is by far best HWā¦ But its HW even if youāre twice as good as the next guy you got 10-20% chance of getting knocked out in there on average. Much harder for him to mitigate that at HW than any other weight class. There is a reason why no one has more than 3x defenses in UFC history.
Didnāt Ngannou have blown out knees or torn ACLS against Game though?