Dana White admits he would be ‘shy’ if Jon Jones doesn’t wrestle Tom Aspinall with Miocic snatch
UFC CEO Dana White has a logjam atop his heavyweight division.
The class’s authentic champion, Jon Jones, has fought correct as soon as in the division (and as soon as overall relationship back to pre-Covid times) however Tom Aspinall’s rise to to the summit of the heavyweight fold, as evidenced by his UFC 304 defence of his meantime heavyweight crown in opposition to Curtis Blaydes, has had many pondering as to who’s the rightful person on the tip of the hill.
Jones, who has been out of circulation as a result of a pectoral damage he sustained in training final year, is heavily linked to a wrestle with former champ Stipe Miocic, possibly in Unique York in November, however White says that ought to Jones be winning he expects his champion to stay round to enlighten himself in opposition to Aspinall. Both Jones and Miocic possess been linked in the media to retiring put up-wrestle, however no company declarations possess yet been made to that enact — namely because it relates to Jones.
“Stipe 100 percent goes to retire after this wrestle,” White instructed wrestle sports reporter Kevin Iole in a most modern interview, as popular by MMA Combating.
“Hear, Jon Jones, you realize how I focus on about Jon Jones and what I non-public of Jon Jones as a fighter — Jon Jones regularly likes to enlighten himself, moved up to heavyweight.
“I don’t know what Jon Jones will manufacture after this wrestle, however I could perhaps perhaps well be shy if he didn’t possess to take a look at himself in opposition to Aspinall.”
Aspinall, for his piece, has made certain that his next wrestle shall be for the undisputed championship, in spite of who that comes in opposition to — and White says that the bout will possess to collected possess attract for Jones too.
“[It’s] undebatable what this man has done in his profession,” White said of Jones, “and if he beats Stipe and he comes out and fights Tom Aspinall and beats him, it’s already easy — no one, I don’t care how unparalleled you abominate Jon Jones for what he’s done, this isn’t about in my knowing who Jon Jones is and manufacture you love him, we’re talking in regards to the baddest dude to ever sail the face of the Earth in wrestle sports already — if he goes out and beats Tom Aspinall, he cements his legacy because the ultimate fighter of all-time.”
