Interim heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall final fought in July 2024, defending the interim championship towards Curtis Blaydes at UFC 304. He captured the interim title at UFC 295 in November 2023 and has lobbied for a title unification bout towards champion Jon Jones for the final 18 months.
Jones defended the heavyweight championship towards former two-time titleholder Stipe Miocic at UFC 309 final November, however hasn’t agreed to face Aspinall subsequent. At this level, Aspinall is on the verge of transferring on from Jon Jones struggle discussions and believes the maintain up comes right down to cash.
“Me, personally, I can’t do something,” Aspinall mentioned on the Excessive Efficiency Podcast. “I simply suppose it’s right down to cash on his facet. I’ll struggle each time — each time, wherever he desires — however it’s right down to cash I feel.”
“I simply suppose that at this stage in his profession, he’s had a tremendous profession, I simply suppose that, he’s like 37, 38 years previous, however not solely that, he’s obtained one million miles on the clock. So he’s obtained numerous injury on the physique. He’s [taken] numerous photographs to the pinnacle. And that’s not me saying something damaging. That’s the fact of it, and I’m positive Jon Jones is conscious of that.”
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Aspinall understands Jones’ state of affairs and why he is asking for a profitable payday. However he is grown bored with ready for Jones and is prepared to contemplate ‘one thing else.’
“If you put him in there with, and I’m not making an attempt to blow my very own trumpet, however I’m actually probably the most harmful man within the UFC if you happen to take a look at the stats,” Aspinall mentioned. “If you put him in with a man of my dimension who has them credentials at this stage in his profession, I feel Jon’s a wise man and realizes that, so he desires to be compensated financially for it.”
“I’m properly bored of it. I’ve had sufficient. We both have to struggle, or I would like to maneuver on to one thing else.”
