Tom Aspinall is the hottest heavyweight prospect in the MMA town. He beat the formidable Russian Sergei Pavlovich in the first round via an impressive knockout. He became the interim Heavyweight champion of the world last year. Since then the UFC fans have been pitching him against the undisputed champion of the world in Jon Jones. Tommy Aspinall recently touched on the same as he explained how a potential bout between them would go.
Tommy Aspinall is one of the very first champions to come out of England and is riding high on confidence it seems.
Tom Aspinall on a potential Jon Jones bout
Tom Aspinall had an interesting career in the UFC. He has racked up seven wins and a single loss in his career till now. He last lost in 2022 by Curtis Blaydes via a spectacular knockout in the first round of their fight. Tom Aspinall said,
I’m obviously confident that I could beat Jon Jones because I want to fight him, I’m not making it a secret that I want to fight him, but I’ve done everything that I can until this point. … I want to fight Jon Jones, but he doesn’t, so there’s not a lot I can do about that.
Aspinall is absolutely positive that he can take on the MMA GOAT and beat him in a five-round fight. He also claimed he is in fact afraid of the man who has got fifteen title fights under his belts but said that fear fuels him to perform even better. Tom Aspinall has only lost one fight in his UFC career till now. Jon Jones was slated to fight Stipe Miocic for the title in October but had to pull out due to the injury he suffered.
Tom Aspinall is the third champion to come from England after only Michael Bisping and Leon Edwards. It’ll be interesting to see if he becomes the undisputed champion of the world in the coming months. Jon made it clear that he wants to fight Stipe Miocic next and not Aspinall given the fact that Stipe is considered the greatest in the division.
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The fans believe that Jones is going to call it a career after his next bout not giving Tom a chance to scrap with him in the near future. It’ll be interesting to see what happens in the Heavyweight division in the future.
