The Ulitmate Fighting Championship (UFC) Interim Heavyweight champion is headed to “The Big Apple” 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 can’t fight.
“Yes, it is official,” Aspinall said. “I mean, Dana [White] announced it a while ago now, but I didn’t actually hear anything from the UFC. But we actually spoke, and everything is going good and we came to an agreement about it.”
Aspinall also revealed that UFC has big plans for him but would not let the cat out of the bag yet.
“We know what’s happening going forward. We got plans,” Aspinall said. “We have future fight plans. Everything is right there. It’s going to be a good couple of years, let me tell ya. Big plans. Big, massive plans…[Jones or Miocic is next] That’s 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.”
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.
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.
That’s all we are saying.
I’m just going along with the joke. I think he would have a better chance against Aspnall’s style than Stipe’s. He loses to Francis though.
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
He’d 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 he’s ever rolled with. Most heavyweights aren’t 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 HW… But its HW even if you’re 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.
Didn’t Ngannou have blown out knees or torn ACLS against Game though?
The UFC has done a good job, but they are clueless of how much Jones and Conor are actually disliked.
These are not the two guys the UFC should be hooking their wagon to anymore. Get rid of these two bums or let the division sort them out.
Neither of them will accept Aspinall on short notice. If one pulls out, it probably becomes Aspinall-Gane.
Which UFC POV did jones managed to get cancelled ???