During his post fight octagon speech when he said he’d give the fans what they wanted he wasn’t actually talking about Tom, what he was talking about was a squash match against a smaller guy that fucking Israel Adesanya outwrestled.
Such a talented fighter but absolutely loathsome at every turn.
Jon/Poatan would do good numbers but its a total squash match and Jon knows it. 37 year old stiff immobile kickboxer who was fighting at 185 last year, only started taking MMA seriously a few years ago and has been kept away from grapplers.
Khabib never called himself the GOAT and Khabib cleared out the division when he retired. There was no Tom Aspinall who was favoured to beat him like he is favoured to beat Jones.
I would respect Khabib less if he moved up in weight to cherry pick lesser fighters and not the best in the division as well.
IMHO Stipe should have been smarter and asked for a warm up fight first to see where his level was at after more than 3 and half years being inactive.
Also why was Jones allowed to just sit out and be inactive for 18 months after beating Gane last March? As a champion why was he not made to defend the belt or be stripped?