Jon Jones considers Tom Aspinall a 'one-trick | MMA News
Heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall‘s first title protection as undisputed champion did not obtained the best way he wished. The combat ended late in the opening spherical after challenger Ciryl Gane inadvertently poked Aspinall in the eyes rendering him unable to see and unable to continue.
Prior to the stoppage for the foul, Gane was clearly successful the combat. Former champion Jon Jones had seen enough to formulate an opinion on Aspinall’s talents and they weren’t flattering.
“Tom’s a great athlete but I do feel like he’s a one-trick pony,” Jones said during an look on the No Scripts podcast. “I believe that his wrestling and jiu-jitsu is incredibly overrated. He has a beautiful one-two. I got to learn a lot about his patterns in his last fight. That’s really about it.
“That’s the one thing that he’s setting up real nice. He couldn’t touch Ciryl Gane at all. That’s the way I felt.”
Jones hasn’t stood across the octagon from Aspinall, but he has stood across from Gane. “Bones” made fast work of the Frenchman at UFC 285 to seize the vacant heavyweight title vacated by Francis Ngannou.
“I felt like Gane was just getting warmed up,” Jones said. “Gane’s hands were down, he’s shaking his shoulders, bouncing around. He was touching him. He was so comfortable.”
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Jones last fought at UFC 309 last November, defeating former two-time heavyweight titleholder Stipe Miocic via TKO. It was Jones’ first and only heavyweight title protection.
In late June, Jones relinquished his heavyweight championship and announced his retirement from preventing. Two weeks later, he ended his retirement and re-entered the anti-doping testing ballot in hopes of competing on next 12 months’s UFC combat card at the White House. UFC CEO Dana White all but ruled out Jones preventing at the historic event, but UFC matchmakers won’t start reserving fights for the event until February.
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