Daniel Cormier thinks Jon Jones goes to combat Tom Aspinall, finally.
For almost two years, one of many largest tales in MMA has been the potential heavyweight title combat between Jones and Aspinall, with little or no to point out for it. Whereas UFC CEO Dana White insists the combat goes to occur in some unspecified time in the future, Jones has been more and more cryptic and noncommittal to the bout, whereas Aspinall is left ready for his alternative to unify titles. And based on Cormier, the maintain up is Jones coming to phrases with a brand new actuality: he’s instantly the previous man within the sport.
“Jon now could be a 38-year-old man a 30-year-old man that’s larger, that’s youthful, that’s more energizing, and going — it’s flipped,” Cormier mentioned on his YouTube channel. “‘I don’t see the wear and tear and tear on their faces anymore, I see the wear and tear and tear on mine.’ He noticed with Stipe [Miocic], Stipe seemed older from all that point away. Now he’s trying down at a younger man, and he’s like, ’Eh.’
“He’s not scared, make no mistake about it. However I believe it’s sufficient to query. And what I believe an enormous fear could be for him? With Aspinall, he might probably get knocked out. Like, legitimately knocked out and placed on his again out chilly. I simply don’t know that he desires to have that visible of him on this planet. He’s knocked out plenty of guys and he’s by no means had —as a result of I’ve seen myself get beat, and I’m like, ‘God, that’s such a horrible visible each time.’”
Jones has by no means been knocked out in competitors, together with his solely profession loss infamously coming by the use of disqualification. Aspinall, in the meantime, has knocked out his previous three opponents in a mixed 3 minutes and 22 seconds of combat time. That’s a part of what makes the matchup so compelling for followers, arguably the best fighter of all time taking over maybe his most harmful problem ever. However at this level, followers appear to be dropping hope that the bout will ever occur. Cormier, although, nonetheless believes, if for no different purpose than Jones’s ego received’t let him stroll away.
“I don’t know that he vacates with out preventing him, as a result of I believe the visible and the lasting thought could be that ‘He ran from him,’ and I don’t know his ego might deal with that he ran from somebody,” Cormier mentioned. “The concept individuals would assume he’s afraid means extra to him than going on the market and preventing him and taking the possibility. Particularly when there’s an actual risk that he simply outclasses Tom Aspinall.
“There’s an actual risk that he goes on the market and he outclasses Tom Aspinall. You don’t know. So I believe that he’ll combat him. I don’t assume they’ll have to strip him, I believe he’ll combat him. And regardless that he might stroll away and go, ‘I’m the perfect, I don’t have to do anything.’ The concept he ran goes to be too robust of a pull for him as he goes into the subsequent section of his profession.”
