When Jon Jones held the undisputed UFC heavyweight championship, the combat promotion aggressively labored to e-book a title unification bout between Jones and interim titleholder Tom Aspinall. Jones present little interest in combat and retired. Aspinall was then elevated from interim to undisputed champion.
In his first title protection as undisputed titleholder, Aspinall confronted former interim champion Ciryl Gane within the UFC 321 predominant occasion on Oct. 26 in Abu Dhabi. The combat ended prematurely late within the opening spherical after Gane unintentionally poked Aspinall within the eyes. The Brit was unable to see and unable to proceed, and the bout was dominated a no contest.
Jones questions Aspinall’s toughness when dealing with adversity and accused the present titleholder of being fast to give up when harm.
“When Tom will get harm, he is like instantly incapacitated. Instantly,” Jones mentioned on the No Scripts Podcast. “It is like, he poked my eye, after which he is like instantly, there is not any like (blinking). Dude, I’d have been the silliest trying cat on nationwide TV (blinking). Attempting.
“Identical factor with Curtis Blaydes when he harm his knee. There was no limping. There was no making an attempt to stand up. It is identical to instantly, burn my village I can not go on like this,” continued Jones. “He instantly quits. When he obtained tapped out with an ankle lock, there was no making an attempt to combat his arms. He instantly give up.”
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Jones got here out of retirement after two weeks prompted by the announcement of subsequent 12 months’s UFC occasion on the White Home. If he had his manner, Jones would have his octagon swan tune on the occasion.
“I hope so. I actually hope so,” he mentioned.
Jones final fought at UFC 309 final November, defeating former two-time heavyweight titleholder Stipe Miocic through TKO. It was Jones’ first and solely heavyweight title protection.
