The UFC interim heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall has been lengthy ready to listen to any affirmation from the UFC relating to a Jon Jones title unification match. For weeks, the heavyweight king ‘Bones’ Jones has been claiming he is not going to struggle Aspinall, as a substitute he goals to retire. However Aspinall lately revealed
Tom Aspinall Updates on Jon Jones Combat
After a sequence of submission and KO/TKO wins within the UFC’s heavyweight division, the UK-born Tom Aspinall was capable of earn the UFC interim heavyweight title. Jon ‘Bones’ Jones sat out throughout that point, whereas holding the UFC heavyweight title, as a consequence of an harm. However now each Aspinall and Jones have one title protection every and have but to unify the titles.
At UFC 309, Jon Jones earned a TKO win towards the previous champion Stipe Miocic. Main as much as the struggle, the US-born Jones refused to acknowledge a attainable struggle towards Aspinall as a substitute claiming he’ll retire. After the struggle, he mentioned he can be completely happy to satisfy the interim champion for the precise sum of money.
Jon Jones vs. Tom Aspinall
Behind the scenes, Aspinall spoke with UFC brass Hunter Campbell and Dana White and he claims he’s optimistic about this future and to anticipate large information quickly.
Talking on The Ariel Helwani Present, he defined how he felt after a gathering with Dana White and Hunter Campbell, he mentioned:
“This struggle is goping to occur… Loads of negotiating to do, I’m very optimistic. Throw me a pair of gloves and I’m in...
Followers have been clamoring to lastly see Jon Jones meet Tom Aspinall within the octagon. With no accidents and a transparent schedule, there may be nothing blocking this heavyweight struggle. On Jones’ UFC 309 title win, Aspinall mentioned:
“Jon Jones did Jon Jones issues… Commonplace process Jon Jones. Stipe… 42-year-old Stipe simply didn’t have the legs anymore… Jones is good in MMA, among the best to ever do it… Me at 31 years previous and Stipe at 42 years old- we’re not even in the identical stratosphere… I’m not a 42-year-old Stipe and Jon is aware of it.
“I acquired see Jones struggle up shut, and as a future opponent this was some data that was very attention-grabbing to me.”