That’s 3 more than Cain had. Tom has no one left to fight but Jones, Gane or Blaydes (does anyone think he deserves a shot?).
At this point you’re making more of a case for the heavyweight division being weak, than you are for Tom not being that good. Tom is obviously great. It’s not his fault the division sucks.
I for one want to see a skilled, exciting heavyweight champion take the reigns.
who do you think has earned the shot at Jon if not Aspinall? I’m struggling when I look at the division.
I’m saying we don’t know how good he is because the division is weak.
Houston Alexander was knocked out by Thiago Silva and James Irvin before he even put together a UFC run. Not even close.
Everything is relative.
No one.
AP kind of made sense before this weekend. Him going for belt 3 against the GOAT made sense. But outside of that there’s nothing that makes sense for Jon.
Jon’s legacy isn’t though.
I agree on the belts. Strip Jon and let Tom say undisputed for all I care. But I don’t think Jon should feel compelled to fight hot shit up and comers forevers. He’s been undefeated in the UFC for 17 years. He doesn’t owe Tom anything
so…what’s the answer? If Tom isn’t good enough for Jon and there’s no one else? The division can’t just stay in purgatory until AP goes up - after he wins a rematch…that’s going to be 6 months before the HW match up
Strip Jon. Easy.
It’s 100% on the promotor in this scenario
He doesn’t have to fight Tom but he should. If he’s not gonna fight I agree, strip him. But Tom is not at fault in this scenario, he’s doing what he’s supposed to. If anything he is pressuring Jon which is good. Maybe it’ll make him make a decision. Once he leaves the division it’ll go back to normal and not be held up.
I completely agree here. Tom’s annoying with the Jones stuff but I get it. His job is to be delusional enough to think he deserves that fight.
The UFC brass is 100% at fault here.
Just saying, I don’t think this is a special fight for Jon.
to be fair on this…Aspinall already recently said that he will move on as long as his next fight is for the Undisputed title, with or without Jon.
Dana has also gone on record saying Aspinall will fight for the undisputed title next no matter what. So yes, this is dragging because Dana is trying to make the fight and jon is playing hardball. Aspninall doing what he needs to because he want to fight plain and simple.
I still don’t know how it’s delusional for an interim champion to call out an undisputed champion in the same division. Whether you find it annoying or not. It makes zero sense for him to call out anyone else. It doesn’t matter if he thinks he deserves the fight. What matters is that Jon is champ, he is interim, and those belts should be unified. Aside from the delusional part I agree with everything you’re saying.
In top of that in my opinion, Tom does more for his resume than Alex does. Sure Alex is a former two division champ but he’s a kickboxer who isn’t known to be a well rounded fighter, on top of not ever being a heavyweight. Tom is a legit heavyweight who is finishing guys who are bigger than Jones. There is a reason why Jon would prefer Alex.
Jon has a much better chance against Alex, he can easily take him down and stop him there.
Yup. Exactly.
I’ll add, Tom can’t win this fight. Jon wins, it’s no big mark on his record. Tom wins, the story will be that Jon lost a fight going up in weight at the end of a long and an unbelievably incredible career. This is a no-win for Tom.
I hope if the fight happens it ends with an “accidental” eye poke from Jones
Definitely. If Tom wins people will just say Jon was never a legit heavyweight and that he’s old. If he loses then he lost to the GOAT. Such is the sport of MMA.
This is the only interesting fight the UFC have left. There’s nothing else remotely interesting on the horizon.
Jon can’t sit there holding up the division until he deems somoeone worthy. That’s not how this sport should work.
If he wants 30 million and he can’t get it, he probably should’ve chosen a different career.
How about fucking fight? Like a fighter.
Shit or get off the pot Jon.
And for fucks sake UFC get some god damned balls and stop letting a cokehead, wife beating, steroid using, eye-poking faggot hold up the division when you have a guy in the prime of his career trying to make a name for himself and possibly become your next marketable champion.
Jon Jones is not the future.
Maybe it’s not special to him but it’s a title defense. Same as Reyes or anyone else. If he doesn’t want to fight then strip him and he can retire.