I've never rooted for someone more than Stipe to get this done. Imagine Jon ducking Francis for years, and choosing Cyril Gane for easy win. Then choosing easiest possible title defence (41 year old inactive Stipe) and hoping to retire as Goat only to get slept by 41 year old Stipe coming off huge inactivity and brutal KO loss. This would be most satisfying win ever.
@@zvuchko9785It’s not like Jon chose Ciryl lmao, he was the #1 contender and the interim champ. Francis left and Stipe was out the picture for two years at that point, who else was he supposed to fight?
Prime for prime Stipe is a nightmare matchup for Jon, the only thing holding him back now is his age and wear n tear but he can't be counted out entirely
@beaualoevv Pretty hard to build up your legacy when the biggest name everyone wants to see you fight runs and hides and cries on twitter. "wHO hAs ASspInall FoUGHT?" Everyone but the champ you fucking shortbus riding speddy eddy, because the champ has decided if he doesn't acknowledge the fight it isn't there. Fuckin throwing around the word incel lmao, projection much?
@@beaualoevvJon is the goat imo, but I still think Tom will piece Jones apart, Tom is unlike any fighter I've ever seen. Jones is old, up a weight class and coming off an injury. Tom is in his prime, ever growing and putting out some incredible fighters
@@osvaldo4748 Everyone Jones fought as Champion were in their Prime or close to it and Jones had a TON of Layoffs...His last layoff was 3 years and he SMOKED the Top Heavyweight at the time in 2 minutes. Aspinall just like Gane NEVER Shown Wrestling Defense in the Octagon...If Aspinall can't stop the Wrestling He's Fucked....That's what NOBODY focuses on in the Reyes and Gustafsson fights. It had nothing to do with them being Tall. Jon beat up alot of Tall guys but they couldn't Stop the Wrestling . Reyes and Gustafsson could...For a While til they couldn't.
The fact that there is an interim champ who has to defend his interim belt is insane enough, but the fact that the undisputed champ isnt stripped yet and the interim champ has more title defenses is just stupid
Jones isn't the undisputed champ. His belt is LITERALLY disputed by the fact that another one exists. On top of that he is doing everything he can to _not_ defend it.
@@Jeffrey_Tyler relax, buddy. You're taking things way too serious. It's like when they say "the baddest man on the planet." You know damn well that's not true.
@@theforce5191 It's a fucking professional sport. The most decorated and popular mixed martial arts championship on the fucking planet. Of course it should be taken seriously.
@@mopar_keys yes, I do know what I’m talking about, and I don’t care either. Jon Jones has a track record of ducking fights. If Jones wanted to fight Aspinall he would’ve already done it.
Dana doesn’t wanna risk Tom v Jon. It coild ruin the division again after they fumbled the Francis bag. Jon got the pay rise to fight Cyril after Frank left. If Jon beat Tom and he can it would ruin the division again. Best we get is Alex v Jon. But Jon a fucking psycho he doesn’t look at other humans as his equal let alone better. Tom could win but even degenerate gambler Dana wouldn’t take that bet.
@@beaualoevv Find it funny how I see a lot of people complain about tom "crying" as if he got beaten by jones and is asking for a rematch. How do you belittle the person who is actively trying to fight jones and accomplished everything he needed to and more to deserve that, more so than anyone who is active at heavyweight, but you defend jones who refuses to vacate and fights on paper the easiest fight of his career, against an out of prime, retired Stipe?
Jones having an 84" reach is just ridiculous. Average reach is around your height..4-5 inches over your height is really good. 7-8 inches over your height is just absurdly OP.
@@TheStraightestWhitest that almost sounds made up. It must be the width of his actual shoulders then. Im 5'10ish with a 74" reach and my reach is equal to my friends reach and he's 6'2 and weighs around 250lbs. In comparison to Pavlovich I'd have to have a reach of 79" to match his reach... Which would mean my finger tips would hang past my kneecaps.
@@FoxUnitNell Matt comes up as 6'3.5-6'4...with a wingspan of 79 inches...which is good but that's about 3-4 inches over his height...that's above average but not for a fighter/athlete...like I said I'm 70.5 inches tall with a wingspan of 74.25... so roughly 4 inches ..Jone is 76.5 inches tall with a wingspan of 84.5 inches... 8 inches over his height!!!!! And Pavlovich is 9 inches over his height! These are ungodly (or godly) reaches/ wingspans.
That's the thing with reach too, sometimes it can be a big disadvantage for the people with that reach more than people think, primarily against fighters who know how to abuse/exploit and counter the other person's reach.
Sure there might be an age gap between Aspinall and Jones but there was one between Shogun Rua and Jones as well when Shogun had the courtesy to take on the young up and coming contender, something Jones seems too scared to do.
Jon also is barely 37. He'll be 37 and a half by the time they fight. That's still a good age. Look at DC or Ngannou or Stipe at those ages. Hell, look at Pereira now.
That's not a fair comparison, shogun Rua was 29 o 28 in his prime while Jon was 22, I would even argue that Jon was in disadvantage sice he had far less experience than Rua. Jon now is pushing to 40 years and coming off a injury, he is old and shouldn't take that risk
@@p1mpholio Gane? The man has PILLOWS for hands and zero grappling. That's like two layers of kryptonite against him fighting any grappler. If you got good grappling, you can force a stand up fight (Strickland). If you got no grappling but heavy hands, you can make grapplers hesitant due to your power (Ngannou), or you can score a killshot before they can even manage to grapple you like Mercer did to Tim Sylvia. But if you got neither? Then you get Gane'd. People won't be afraid to literally waltz up to you through your little lovetaps and just take you down and sub you. Gane is a very overrated duck. Nobody who knew anything about fighting thought that guy had a chance.
I'd love to see Tom hit Jon with an inside shoulder lock in the clench and test that torn pec, because Jon's gonna play dirty with oblique kicks to Tom's knee so fuck em.
@@420Jelbaz Yeah they indeed are. On top of that those are only 3 wins, where's the rest? Compared to other weight classes, Pavlovich wouldn't even be top 10 at LHW. Washed Blaydes is even bellow him. Volkov right now is solid, but back then he was a beanpole.
@@ggthewhale Lil bro, I ain't even a Jones fan, educate yourself and grow up. Both Jones fanboys and you Aspinal glazers are an embarrassment to the sport.
No matter what your stance is on this topic, i think we can all agree upon one thing, tom aspinall deserves the title shot more than stipe and pereira.
Yes, absolutely, the fraud who has yet to beat a good fighter deserves the title shot more than the guy who is the literal greatest heavyweight ever and is arguably a top 5 fighter of all time
@@sebastiankruse6202ok Jones, let's dig up Muhammad Ali and Rocky Marciano's bones and box them to become the boxing GOAT Stipe is a fossil with damaged eyes and a limping leg, he WAS the best heavyweight fighter, WAS. Aspinall wiped out half of the top 15 and Sergei wiped the other half, and Aspinall beat him. Only the duckers are missing, what do you want him to do more ?? Defend the interim again while Jones ducks him ??
This adds not blemish to his legacy yall just want to see this fight sooo bad jones is the GOAT if he fights aspinall and wins he’s the GOAT if he looses he’s the GOAT if he doesn’t take the fight he’s the GOAT
You kinda touched on it, but forgot to fully mention how Jon Jones has NEVER sat a man down with a punch. Closest he got was a liver shot to an already defeated Shogun Rua, who was an aging middleweight half Jon's size. So while that reach advantage is nasty, it's just the arms, and Tom does not need to fear his power. He can take a few hits. I know nobody should rely on their chin, but getting past that kind of range means getting hit, so he should absolutely just look to make that trade since he'll be winning it every time due to having greater toughness and FAR greater power. Jon's push jabs will not be able to keep Tom at a distance if Tom just decides to pressure him and walk through them. All in all, excellent video. Tom is a nightmare matchup for Jon. But then, who isn't he a nightmare matchup for at this point? The man is a cheat code.
@@kokmuncher6702 When did he do that? I checked his record. All I could find was a NC due to another PED bust. He's lucky they didn't overturn it into another DQ loss. It also seems you can't read. I said with his hands. Last I checked, the way he hurt DC was a roid infused overturned headkick that DC has always been susceptible to but nobody ever took advantage of because 90% of their opponents were ass or too short to land it. So a 6'4 guy needs steroids to headkick a 5'10 guy, and you think that's worthy of praise? I don't think this made the point you wanted it to. Why didn't he do the same to Reyes or Smith or Santos or OSP?
I remember watching an instagram reel that said ‘this year is the last year jon jones will fight’ and Jon Jones himself liked the post which means he is planning on retiring after Stipe
And it's obvious Jones told Dana that he will only fight Stipe. Thats why Dana has to milk JJ as much as he can and promote him as num 1 p4p instead of matching him vs someone who people want to see.
You all said this before he fought Gane. You let your hate of Jones delude you into thinking he isn't the most talented mma fighter to ever grace the sport
Nah I think it's the other way round Jon Jones fans are a weird bunch the sample size of him at heavy weight is basically non existent Tom has wrecked everyone super fast Tom fans are realists Jones fans not so much when Tom kos Jones I will be here with my popcorn and a bucket for their tiers
@@AlphaAbyss_ Here is real reasoning behind why Jones beats him, and Easily. Jones Defense is 100x better, Theres a reason he has never been rocked, let alone Knocked down. 20 title fights Btw. No one is getting past that 84 inch reach that is his defense combined with his fight iq. He rarely eats a solid punch. There goes Aspinall KO out the window. He gets picked apart by Jones superior Striking skills. Leg attacks, teeps, and if it comes to it Clinch Knees and Elbows. otherwise.. His grappling is Miles better and aspinall has shown nothing to suggest that his grappling is better. The " Non existant sample size" we have at him in heavyweight. is him disposing of Nr 1 heavyweight at the time in 3 min. Insanely quick takedown for Heavyweight. and submission right after. Now i ask you explain in detail, how does Tom beat Jon Jones?
Nah we just want the guy whose actually active whose actually defended the heavyweight title to have a chance at shedding his paper crown. It's Jones fanboys who don't want the fight to happen
That long guard of Jon Jones is built for aspinall to spring out then back in and crack Jon with the 1, 2. Tom aspinall being the more athletic is universes faster than Jon.
Its almost as if we forgot we talking about jon Jones here. Im not ruling out losing but "easily" is insane Personally I got Jones , all this aspinall talk will backfire
How tom could win: 1. Stay away from kick range 2. Take damage and cross the void(if he refuses to keep pressure and take hits he will lose) 3. Don't get taken down 4. Check all kicks 5. Don't try to wrestle him 6. Don't give it a razor close fight or the judges will give jon the nudge
Aspinall's style is fast and furious. If he wins, it's probably quick and a KO. The longer it goes the more it favors Jon. It's like Conor vs Aldo. People that said Conor would walk make it look easy were called Aldo haters. But if Conor was going to win, it probably was going to be quick which it was.
Jon loves to study fighters, i bet he probably needs more clips of aspinall to watch before he is really ready .. 2 minutes of fight time is just not enough.. lol
I'm curious to see how Jon looks at HW with his range management. You've got to remember that he was undertrained in his first Gus fight and was at the backend of his LHW career by the time he fought Reyes as he had 3 straight decisions. In Tom's last fight, Curtis was finding his range with his superior reach and almost clipped Tom in both of his fights. If Jones can keep his range using his reach and body kicks (like he did in the second Gus fight) while incorporating his clinch game/grappling, I could see him dragging Tom into deep waters where he's never been before, winning via round 3-4 Tko/sub. I'd still pick Aspinall as a betting man due to his speed and superior boxing, but I don't think it's an easy fight by any means for Tom, especially with Jon's fight IQ.
@@thanksmaybe4103 Huge height advantage for easy head kick, has to chase DC around the cage until he falls, gets overturned to a No-Contest anyway. Let's see that mma math working against Tom.
@Solznmid maybe slightly faster but power isn't close and tom is a monster grappler tom is a Swiss army knife in fighting just like prime jon or GSP can do everything very well this fight will never happen but right now I'm thinking tom will win in 2 rounds
@@ggthewhalefrancis with acl amd mcl injury easily took down gane aspinall grappling is even better than jones lets be honest gane was just a perfect match up for jones
Not really. The only fighter most people thought had a chance vs Jon was DC, and Jones got scared of DC and juiced so much he started eternally "pulsing". Then we had Gus 2, another opponent after their first fight some thought would be close, but again he was pulsing. Jon been a big fav in all his fights aside the DC fight for a reason. Vs Aspinall Jon is seen as the slight under dog. Extremely different.
why are you guys forgetting about stipe and making this entire thing aboout jones and aspinall? this is mma, crazy things happen all the time, for all my money, stipe can just KO jones and retire as the undisputed champ and ruin everyone's plans dont sleep on stipe
Extremely unlikely and completely wrong. Stipe is likely though to TKO Jones, they are both washed and didn't have even 1 or just 1 fight since 2020. As for why it's wrong... Aspinall is the literal interim champion, you can't be the "undisputed' champion while an interim champion exist. Well unless you mean Stipe fights and beats Tom after Jones, then it would be fine but he would have to beat Pereira too, cause Stipe ain't no ducker, he would fight Poatan.
@@Nevertheless196 Mate, no version of Stipe is losing to Romanov ever, get a grip. Like if you said loses to somebody like Rozenstruik or so, perhaps, but Romanov? In which universe?
This must be satire. If not this it the MOST retarded take i EVER heard in sports. Heard dumb takes in basketball, football, and boxing. But this tops it all
So… here are some things about the possible fight. In terms of strength, I’d definitely give it to Jon, I wouldn’t be surprised if he was able to ragdoll Tom a lot more with his wrestling, and yes, there was Curtis, but Curtis doesn’t have the same fighting IQ Jon does. Boxing, Tom Aspinall all day, dude has gone rounds with Tyson Fury and it very clearly shows in his fights. In terms of chin, Jon takes it, he’s never been rocked ONCE in his whole career which is crazy to me, even going up against guys like Glover who were known for having power, he lost his balance against Reyes and not even Gus was able to rock him despite hitting him so much. Kickboxing, Jon Jones, but it might not actually make a difference, Tom fought Volkov who’s a very experienced kickboxer, and he trains with Rico Verhoeven too, so Jon’s kickboxing might not be a problem for Tom. And as for leg kicks, I recommend watching the Alan Baudot fight, every time Alan kicked Tom in the leg, Tom used an oblique kick to disrupt it. In terms of weaknesses, Jon has way more, like you mentioned if you’re able to swarm him, it’s gonna be hard for him, but one thing I NEVER see people mention is Tom’s all offense no defense, if Jon fights the smart fight, which he can, he could very well check hook and check kick Tom in the face all night when Tom blitzes into boxing range, but given Tom’s agility and movement, it would be very hard to do, but don’t count that out. Overall, my two cents on this fight, and yes, I do think Jon could be able to takedown Tom, Jon may not be explosive, but he’s as strong as an Ox, don’t overlook that. Also… don’t disrespect Stipe, he has a better chance at beating Jon than anyone else, he had the highest amount of TDD at heavyweight with a long pedigree in boxing.
@@Arkus123 No he wasn’t? He was off balanced, Jon accidentally leaned into a punch by Lyoto, it shifted Jon’s weight distribution, after they clinched Jon was completely fine, seriously, watch the fight again, he wasn’t stunned nor rocked, he just lost balance
IDC what people say... The whole ducking Tom thing is really hurting Jon's legacy. PS: I have an inside source from Abu Dhabi that Belal will go to 155 and Islam will move at 170. That way both can become 2xC
But the universe doesn't revolve around you in actuality, so it doesn't really matter what you say or believe, you just seem to lack sound judgement ahead of time.
Tom Aspinall is a cool guy and dude is humble. It's Tom's fans that are insufferable. We all want this fight, but people need to remember we don't always get what we want. Francis and Tom would've been a fun matchup too.
Everyones diehard fans are insufferable. Who do you think are more insufferable though? The people pointing out the fact that jones is ducking the number one contender, or the people who keep claiming jones is the best to ever do it and because of that he shouldnt have to fight any legitimate contenders?
Yeah Aspinall cleans up Jon pretty fast if he don't get submitted Honestly, Jones kind of sucks. Not saying he isn't smart but if Khabib were in his weight class I have no doubt Khabib would beat him. Jones sucks in striking outside of elbows and kicks. Jones performances were severely lacking outside of his steroid fights. He didn't have animosity anymore after getting off tje juice exactly like Gynosanya when he got off the juice after Costa fight. You get massive power and bone hardening from steroids so yes he has technique but when you combine that with technique it's a problem. But Jones lost to Reyes...Jones is not that great when you think about it that way
He’s old and ducking now but don’t let that taint what he’s done in his career to this point. He still cleaned out 2 generations of fighters in the LHW division starting from the time he was 23
@@Solznmid yeah he had great technique...but let's not forget how he was on roids...you're gonna be exceptionally strong and that with technique is a deadly combo. And kicking out someone's knees will mess you up. I need to rewatch Cormier 1 but in the second fight Cormier was winning imo until the head kick if I remember correctly. I think MMA has advanced greatly though...and if boxers started joining the game would change greatly cuz Jones weakness is boxing and he's supposedly the best 😂 Even when Aldo started being more boxing centric he started giving his opponents more problems.
I genuinely believe jones make this look easy, a lot of people want tom to win but if their lives are on the line i think everyone would never doubt jon
@@yeahwhateva419 Because we have no data to work on with jones. The gane fight was a gimme. Jones is close to a master on the ground and gane got outwrestled by ngannou. Prior to that, jones fights years ago he was getting fairly evenly matched by light heavy weights. Tom on the other hand is head and shoulders above every heavyweight. Thats not to say i think tom takes him easily. But I believe if they were to fight 10 times in a row, tom would win more often than jon would. Hes 100% jones hardest match up currently and anyone who doesnt think that is delusional.
@@knobjob2839 lol i agree but there’s next to no chance of that. If curtis and sergei didn’t even tickle him i doubt jon would do much to him. If i were jon i would look to close the distance asap and not even worry about the takedown until you slow the pace down because the opening minutes are probably the most risky for jones. Once the fight is slowed down you work your takedowns and mix up the clinch strikes
Such utter cap. Where is Aspinall better than Jones? Striking, clearly not. Wrestling, absofuckinglutely not. Jiujitsu, be for real. Jones has defeated opponents who are more well rounded than Aspinall AND defeated specialists in all aspects of MMA. There is no debate here, and deep down Aspinall knows this
Aspinall has better striking boss. If there was no debate then why is Aspinall consistently calling Jones out while Jones ducks him and tries to fight old man Stipie?!
@AlabamWinger Gus, shogun & machida objectively speaking have better hands than Aspinall. The only gimmick that makes this fight interesting is the HW power & size, DC is multiple times more skilled than Tom everywhere on a PFP scale. The reality is Aspinall wouldn’t even make in the top 7 hardest opponents Jones fought skill wise.
I’m an atheist, but I would probably believe in God if Stipe sleeps Jones. There’s a natural explantion for the universe existing, but there is no explantion I can think of for Stipe flatlining jones other than divine intervention.
@user-vt3vo1yd3v Okay, so are you saying that we need something (doesn't have to be god) that precedes the universe for it to exist? As it cannot be "nothing" that spawned our world according to you.
Yes we do care. Jon looked sloppy in the gane fight, reyes was robbed, he took anthony smith to 5 rounds, jon had to deploy his scummy tactics to beat thiago santos and gustafsson was not the same fighter by the time of their second fight despite jon looking impressive. Those were his last 5 fights/“wins” and they all have asterisks attached to them.
I don’t understand how you can support Jones and even hint at the idea he will beat Tom when he is blatantly ducking the interim champion and has zero intentions of ever fighting him. He knows exactly what storm is coming with Tom and will never fight him and will retire after that absolute bullshit fight w stipe
@@aos2308 the funny thing is you guys say this about all of Jones previous opponents 😂 it will end the same way like the others and then you'll all be silent
@@fixthesegames6303 bro the thing is it’s not gonna happen because jones will not fight this guy😭 it’s actually gonna be generational glaze if you jones fans think it’s any sort of leverage over Tom when he beats the human fossil stipe
@@aos2308 Everyone pretend like Jon didnt get a major injury that delayed his activity. Jon will come back and eat your boy and y'all will still complain 😂
The UFC has evolved like most sports. Compared to the 1990s, it's a whole other level. I'm not taking anything from Jon Jones, but fighters today are tougher than they were 10 years ago.
@@DTS_I Aspinall ain't nothing Special... Typical Big Puncher with Occasional BJJ....He got the Same Style as like 17 of the guys Jones already beat ...Just stay out of Punching range, Keep the fight in Kicking range and Aspinall won't Touch him.
@@jc-vq1jl what has Jon jones done in his career for anyone to say that there’s a man alive who can beat him “easily” this is just a shit post all around
@@rondoxx2010 Gone the distance with some very average fighters, being almost 40, potentially having to fight the fastest KO artist in ufc history whose mentality is 100x more sound than his own
@@jc-vq1jl Tom Aspinall has 3 losses to Jon’s how many? In leagues that have fighters who couldn’t lift a finger towards journeyman ufc fighters. Let’s just put it like this. While Tom Aspinall was overseas getting submitted by D level fighters. Jon jones was running the game. And to this day he still is. You started watching mma in maybe 2022 kid 😂
@@rondoxx2010 You just looked up their records on wikipedia which is about the most casual thing you can do. Try watching their fights with your eyes, Jones has had plenty of boring and ropey ones. You lil arab you're still reeling off the anglo power
The fact we're likely never going to see Jon Jones v Aspinall, while over in the boxing world Usyk and Fury are getting ready for round 2 is peak comedy. Yet another W for boxing and L for MMA.
It will be a grappling match and there could be a scare or flash KO but Jon will wear him down and control him or submit him. I think Tom could survive and lose the decision.
