Because of Leon Edwards, Tom Aspinall has a plan in place to take care of the time zone craziness imposed on UFC 304 that has him combating at 5 a.m. native time.
Aspinall and Edwards are set to headline the large Manchester pay-per-view, which is about to kick off at 10 p.m. ET, which is 3 a.m. in England. Which means the fights will go til round 5 – 6 within the morning, which is a loopy factor to anticipate from combined martial arts rivals.
Aspinall, who holds the interim heavyweight title, tried to get the UFC to maneuver the beginning time however was shot down. Now he’s attempting to mitigate the impact such an early begin could have on his efficiency, and he’s getting some assist from welterweight champ Edwards.
“I’ve a mad idea on what I used to be going to do, and it’s utterly totally different to [his],” Aspinall mentioned in a brand new YouTube video. “Now I’m simply going to repeat Leon’s model.”
“Initially I used to be comparable [to Tom],” Edwards mentioned. “I used to be like ‘Oh, I’m going to should sleep within the day and be awake at night time.’ However once I spoke to [a specialist], he mentioned you possibly can’t do this cuz your physique wants daylight, you want daylight. So he principally mentioned someway you must modify it so that you don’t have to coach at 5:00 within the morning, you must get your physique used to about 1, 2 within the morning, and after that try to be superb.”
“As a result of once I’m combating at 11, I’m not coaching at 11. I’m performed by 6 in my home. So he says transferring the clock a bit of bit hour by hour, six weeks out, little by little, get to about 2 o’clock, and that’s the place you need it. You’ll nonetheless get daylight, you’ll nonetheless have the ability to prepare. So it’ll be good.”
“My first thought was I’m going to go to Vegas,” Aspinall mentioned. “And we’ll do the final 4 weeks of the camp there and I’m going to return again. After which I assumed, ‘You understand what? Being 6’5, sitting on a aircraft for 12 hours, that alone f—s you up.’ So I don’t assume I’m going to do this.”
“I believe I’m going to repeat your mannequin,” Tom concluded earlier than including “Did you pay for that?”
“I did pay for that,” Leon replied with fun. “You possibly can’t have it.”
