Former UFC champion: 'Jon Jones is ducking | MMA News
Interim heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall expects his next opponent to be introduced soon but it would not appear doubtless that it will be undisputed heavyweight titleholder Jon Jones.
Aspinall has been calling for a title unification bout since being topped interim champion in November 2023. UFC CEO Dana White was assured that UFC matchmakers may get the struggle booked, but Jones hasn’t been receptive to going through Aspinall.
Former UFC ladies’s bantamweight titleholder Miesha Tate believes Jones ‘is ducking’ Aspinall because he is not assured he can win.
“I feel like Jon Jones is ducking Tom Aspinall,” Tate informed ESportsInsider. “I think Jon Jones is an incredibly smart man, and he is a technician, and he knows when he sees someone that would be difficult to beat. And I think he isn’t confident that he has the pieces that it takes to put Tom Aspinall on the mat.”
Admittedly, Tate hasn’t adopted the Jones and Aspinall scenario very intently but from what she’s seen and learn, she would not perceive why Jones hasn’t settle for the match.
“Granted, I haven’t followed this religiously, but I’ve seen Jon Jones in an interview and saying, “Oh, Tom Aspinall is talking all this crap”, and I think it was Ariel Helwani that was covering it, and I was like, what has Tom Aspinall said? I mean, he doesn’t even use curse words,” Tate stated.
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“He’s pretty much just called him out or said like, oh, he’s ducking me and I don’t know from beyond that if there’s something has changed, but it seems like Aspinall’s been pretty respectful. And even if someone’s not respectful, that’s still not a reason to not fight someone, right?”
Tate believes it is the champion’s job to show that they’re the best in the world and if they are not in preventing then that’s okay but the heavyweight division is at a stand still.
“If Tom’s been respectful or has been disrespectful, it doesn’t matter. Your job is to prove that you’re the best, and you’re supposed to move up to heavyweight and do that,” stated Tate. “I don’t understand what all this hemming and hawing is about. Tom Aspinall is where it’s at right now, and I think that he should show up if he wants to or call it. Like if he doesn’t wanna fight anymore, then don’t. That’s okay too.”
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