Tom Aspinall and Jon Jones come face-to-face.
Regardless of being the No.1 and a pair of ranked heavyweights within the UFC, Jones and Aspinall is not going to be dealing with one another subsequent, and perhaps ever.
After struggling an harm, Jones was pressured to postpone his battle with Stipe Miocic, a lot to the displeasure of Aspinall. The Brit is at present the interim-heavyweight champion, however has no viable matchup lined up.
Aspinall had begun to marketing campaign to face with Miocic or Jones subsequent however seemingly realised that won’t be occurring.
Tom Aspinall and Jon Jones meet for the very first time
After sharing a small back-and-forths Aspinall and Jones got here face-to-face at a health occasion in Birmingham on Saturday. It resulted in a moderately awkward assembly which was filmed and posted by Aspinall by way of his YouTube channel.
“What’s occurring man?” Aspinall started.
“I’m all good man,” Jones replied as the 2 shook fingers.
Aspinall would then attain to the touch Jones on the shoulder, in what may solely be seen as a pleasant embrace. Jones would shortly take away Aspinall’s hand all whereas sustaining eye contact. The Englishman would shortly apologise.
“Are we going to do that factor?” Aspinall then requested Jones.
“I might hope so,” Jones responded.
“I might like to – respect,” Aspinall mentioned to Jones. “I might like to have the honour in the future.”
Jones answered again, “Perhaps in the future.”
Aspinall would additionally ask for a face-off image with Jones, which was shortly shot down earlier than the 2 posed for a side-by-side snap.
“Yeah it was good mate, all peaceable,” Aspinall defined following the interplay. “I wanna battle with him however I don’t wanna battle him at a fair, I need to have a UFC battle with him. I simply requested if he would give me the chance in the future, he mentioned he’s therapeutic up good so we’ll see.”
Who wins, Tom Aspinall or Jon Jones?
