Tom Aspinall believes he needs to be combating Jon Jones subsequent not Stipe Miocic.
Aspinall is recent off a knockout win over Sergei Pavlovich at UFC 295 for the interim heavyweight title. Usually he’d face the champion subsequent, however Jon Jones is injured and anticipated to battle Stipe Moicic when he returns. UFC president Dana White says Jones versus Miocic is a ‘legacy battle.’
“I am not the largest fan of sitting and ready to be trustworthy,” Aspinall advised TMZ Sports. “I do not wish to be like entitled now regardless that I am the champion. I do not need to be this man who’s like thinks he is higher than everybody or one thing like that. I need to battle Jon Jones, and I believe, that is no disrespect to Stipe in any respect, however after a efficiency like Saturday evening who actually cares about 42-year previous Stipe, who has not fought in three of 4 years, coming again and combating Jon Jones?
“I’ve simply knocked out the scariest man within the UFC in a minute. I do know it is like a giant respect factor. Stipe’s like the best heavyweight ever and Jon Jones is arguably the best MMA fighter ever. I get that. I utterly get it, however it’s additionally about relevance. It is also about pleasure. It is also about what places folks in seats, what individuals are going to purchase pay-per-views. I am extra thrilling than anyone proper now. I deserve a shot. I am the champion.
“Jon Jones is the champion. I am not saying that he is not, however I am a champion as properly and Stipe’s, that is no disrespect to Stipe… However Stipe at this level is a man that hasn’t fought for 3 years and is coming off a loss.”
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Jones known as out Micoc after his win over Cyril Gane at UFC 285. He needed a chance to beat the best heavyweight in UFC historical past.
“I believe at this level now everybody is aware of that I am an trustworthy man. I am not the man that is going to blow my very own trumpet or something like that, however I am being utterly trustworthy. I believe, as I stated, Stipe’s going to be 43 years previous by the point Jon Jones comes again and he is coming off a loss that he took, it will be coming as much as 4 years in the past by the point Jon Jones comes again. Who needs to see that compared to me who’s knocking all people out within the first spherical?”
“I believe in the event you put me in there with anyone with how harmful and explosive, and never simply my bodily attributes, however my psychological attributes is what units me aside from different fighters. I could make actually good selections underneath huge stress, and never all people can try this. I exploit that to my benefit each battle that I am in. If I am in there, it doesn’t matter what circumstances, I simply proved that on Saturday, of what circumstances that I am underneath I can win. I’ve executed it towards all people else, why cannot I do it towards Jon Jones? Completely I can beat (Jon). If I hit anyone clear, I can knock them out. I am one hundred pc, I am certain of it.”
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