Tom Aspinall is completed interested by Jon Jones.
For effectively over a 12 months, Aspinall sat on the sidelines ready for a struggle that may by no means come. As an alternative of signing on the dotted line for a long-awaited heavyweight unification conflict, ‘Bones’ opted to relinquish his belt — solely to reverse his resolution lower than two weeks later.
By then, the UFC had already promoted Aspinall from interim to undisputed champion and went to work establishing his first title protection. On October 25, Aspinall will put his gold on the road for the very first time towards Ciryl Gane at UFC 321 in Abu Dhabi.
With Jones leaping proper again into the testing pool, everybody instantly began asking whether or not we might lastly see ‘Bones’ and Aspinall sq. off.
In line with Aspinall, the reply is easy.
“Not mate,” Aspinall advised Ariel Helwani of a struggle with Jon Jones. “And the world shouldn’t have an interest both, as a result of what’s the purpose. Simply false hope.”
Tom Aspinall isn’t interested by something apart from Ciryl Gane
As an alternative, Aspinall is placing all of his give attention to beating ‘Bon Gamin’ at Etihad Area this fall.
“I’ve already acquired a struggle, so I’m specializing in that. … For the following 10 weeks of my life, all I’m interested by is Ciryl Gane and learn how to beat him,” Aspinall mentioned.
Aspinall is 8-1 beneath the UFC banner, his lone loss coming by way of a freak damage within the first 15 seconds of a scheduled scrap towards Curtis Blaydes in July 2022. The damage put Aspinall on the shelf for a 12 months, however he acquired his redemption two years later, KO’ing ‘Razor’ within the opening minute of their interim title tilt at UFC 304 in Manchester.
