In a cross-over with Glory Kickboxing heavyweight champion Rico Verhoeven, Interim UFC heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall engaged in a physique shot competitors with the king of kickboxing. Having meals and spending time with each other led the Dutch kickboxing king to ask Tom Aspinall about his potential unification combat with Jon Jones. During which many declare Jones to be ducking Aspinall and even purported to be unofficially retired, to which the British champion responded:
“I believe we’ll get it. He’s unpredictable, an actual menace, and generally he falls out. Individuals hold telling me various things—some say ‘simply depart him alone and he’ll combat you,’ others say ‘the extra you speak, the much less he needs to combat.’ I’m like, ‘What’s this?’ He mentioned straight up, ‘I’m not speaking nonsense, I simply wish to do it.’ We’re imagined to be skilled fighters — combat one another, that’s what we do.”
Aspinall, who has not fought since defending the interim title towards Curtis Blaydes final yr, has proven seen frustration with Jone Jones and the UFC not placing any actual stress on Jones to make the combat occur. With the division at present being held up by the inactive Jones, this response is effectively warranted.
Tom Aspinall is essentially the most reliable interim champion ever within the UFC.
There have been occasions when individuals have questioned interim titles. For instance, when Yair Rodriguez gained the interim featherweight title towards Josh Emmett, many believed it was an pointless transfer by the UFC. As for somebody like Tom Aspinall, who not solely gained the interim title on brief discover towards a knockout machine in Sergei Pavlovich but additionally defended it towards Curtis Blaydes, avenging his solely loss within the UFC. Aspinall is greater than possible the best interim champion since Tony Ferguson.
