There are numerous fighters who discuss a giant recreation in entrance of the digicam and tuck their tails when it’s time to throw fingers. Tom Aspinall isn’t that man.
That comes in line with UFC CEO Dana White who sang the praises of the interim heavyweight champion throughout a current look on Piers Morgan Uncensored. Particularly, White applauded Aspinall for being a man who legitimately desires to struggle the very best of the very best.
“If he can beat Jon Jones, it’s a life changer.”
Dana White discusses Jon Jones vs. Tom Aspinall and says he disagrees with the assertion that Jones can’t be the GOAT attributable to his previous drug take a look at controversies.
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”He [Aspinall] desires to struggle everyone. I adore it,” White stated. “I like that, a younger aggresive proficient heavyweight, that he truly desires to struggle the entire greatest. The issue on this enterprise is you might have guys who say numerous thinigs publicly however behind the curtains they don’t imply it…Tom Aspinall isn’t that man. Tom Aspinall desires to struggle all the very best on the earth and I like that.”
White is worked up to seek out out simply how good tom aspinall actually is
Aspinall will get his shot to struggle the very best on the earth earlier than lengthy. Although no official bulletins have been made, White has been greater than assured when saying {that a} long-awaited conflict between Aspinall and undisputed heavyweight titleholder Jon ‘Bones’ Jones would go down in 2025.
Requested how good he thinks Aspinall is, White believes that the Brit is fairly rattling good, however we’ll discover out simply how good when he inevitably tussles with the pound-for-pound biggest blended martial artist of all time.
”Superb,” White stated. We’re gonna discover out after we make this Jon Jones struggle…if he can beat Jon Jones, it’s life altering. ”
After profitable the interim title through a 69-second knockout of Sergei Pavlovich at UFC 295, Aspinall turned the primary fighter in additional than a decade to defend an interim belt, defeating Curtis Blaydes precisely one minute into their title tilt at UFC 307 in July.
In the meantime, Jones is coming off his first profitable protection of the undisputed crown, scoring a third-round TKO over two-time titleholder Stipe Miocic at MSG in November.
