Rising growing impatient on a pairing with Jon Jones, interim champion, Tom Aspinall has urged the heavyweight champion to both simply combat him or lastly name time on his embellished run within the UFC as soon as and for all.
Aspinall, who owns the interim heavyweight crown — gained that title again in 2023, however has but to e-book a title unification conflict with Jones within the years since.
Sidelined since final summer time, the Atherton native co-headlined UFC 304 final summer time, delivering a dominant opening spherical knockout win over Curtis Blaydes within the pair’s rematch in Manchester, to efficiently avenge his solely Octagon defeat.
As for Jones, the Rochester native headlined UFC 309 final November at Madison Sq. Backyard, delivering a 3rd spherical spinning back-kick to the physique knockout win over the returning, Stipe Miocic in New York.
Tom Aspinall claims Jon Jones has to combat him or simply retire from the UFC
And kicking the tyres on a title unification conflict with Aspinall within the time since, Jones has been urged to both simply succumb to a combat with him — or lastly grasp up his gloves.
“There’s nowhere to go for Jon (Jones),” Tom Aspinall stated on the One to One Podcast. “He either has to fight me or retire now. And if he does retire, everyone knows that he will have been avoiding me. So there literally isn’t another fight for Jon at the moment. So it works out pretty good.”
“I want it to, obviously,” Tom Aspinall stated. “I’ve been talking about it for years now. In all honesty, I’ve been in the rooms with the UFC brass — Dana, Hunter [Campbell] — a few times, and they’ve told me it’s happening. That’s all I can go off. I’m the same as everybody else. … The people who know are the UFC brass, really, and when I’ve sat down and spoke to them, they’re confident it happens. So I trust that it’s going to happen if they’re telling me that.”
