UFC heavyweight champion Jon Jones’ coach Brandon Gibson is assured his fighter would maintain enterprise contained in the octagon towards interim champ Tom Aspinall.
Gibson has been alongside Jones (28-1 MMA, 22-1 UFC) for everything of Jones’ run atop two divisions within the UFC. From their perspective, Jones, 37, is finished exhibiting and proving. Now, it’s about getting essentially the most out of the sport earlier than calling it a profession. In keeping with Gibson, it has nothing to do with Jones being a “duck” and avoiding a matchup towards Aspinall.
“I feel it’s about timing,” Gibson instructed Din Thomas and Alan Jouban on SiriusXM Struggle Nation. “I feel it’s about getting essentially the most out of this battle recreation. I’ve been in it for a very long time, as I do know you guys have, and it’s not at all times a good recreation. Folks don’t at all times get what they deserve on this recreation.
“I feel Jon’s in a strong place proper now to essentially maintain the playing cards in his favor and make it possible for he will get out of it what he needs.”
Yr after yr, there’s one other contender who pops up as a reputable risk to Jones’ title. Gibson believes Aspinall (15-3 MMA, 8-1 UFC) is just not too totally different from each challenger who tried and didn’t knock Jones off previously.
Regardless of Jones stating he has the next curiosity in going through gentle heavyweight champion Alex Pereira over a title unification bout towards Aspinall, Gibson says that has nothing to do with worrying about how that battle would play out. Even with restricted recreation movie on Aspinall, Gibson is assured Jones would win the battle, it simply has to make sense for them from a enterprise perspective.
“I feel the followers need that from a lineal standpoint,” Gibson stated. “You need to see the belt get handed, not only a belt get vacated. However I at all times inform Jon like, ‘Dude, you don’t owe anyone something.’ We owed Stipe Miocic and the UFC that evening on Nov. 16. That’s what we owed. We’ll see if negotiations can get finished proper, however Jon’s not ducking anyone.
“I really assume Jon is a tricky matchup for Tom Aspinall. Clearly, we haven’t seen Tom with a median battle time of two and a half minutes – we haven’t see a lot out of Tom, however that’s additionally a optimistic on our half. Jon is nice at taking champion-level caliber fighters into deep waters. Jon is nice in that fourth spherical and that fifth spherical. It’s not a matchup that scares us in any respect. It’s a matter of what’s greatest for Jon and his household.”
🗣️”I at all times instructed Jon [Jones], you don’t owe anyone something.” @SixGunGibson doesn’t really feel that @JonnyBones is ducking @AspinallMMA. 💪
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