Tom Aspinall is able to go.
Final Combating Championship (UFC) returns for its annual Madison Sq. Backyard present in New York Metropolis with UFC 309 when undisputed Heavyweight champion, Jon Jones, will defend in opposition to Stipe Miocic on Nov. 16, 2024. Maybe probably the most enthusiastic about this information is the interim titleholder, Aspinall.
The division has been stalled due to Jones’ arrival in March 2023. The previous two-time Gentle Heavyweight kingpin and all-time nice claimed the vacant title together with his spectacular two-minute guillotine over Ciryl Gane (watch highlights) at UFC 285. Having not fought since, Jones has maintained his insistence on battling Miocic regardless of his harm and the coronation of the interim champion, Aspinall. Whatever the prolonged anticipate the Brit, he’s able to go if his providers are as soon as once more wanted on brief discover.
“What else occurred there was huge Jon Jones, huge Stipe Miocic matched up with each other,” Aspinall stated on his YouTube channel (h/t MMA Combating). “Lastly, it’s official. Nov. 16, MSG, New York Metropolis. The Heavyweight title is on the road in the end. Lastly. We’re confirmed for it.
“I, after all, will likely be there to observe these two gents go at it,” he continued. “I, after all, have advised the UFC if anyone will get injured or for every other cause why no person could make it to that struggle, why one in every of them may pull out, I’m able to go. If I must, I’ll struggle each of them in the identical evening, no downside.”
Aspinall, 31, just lately made his first profitable title protection because the interim champion when he rematched Curtis Blaydes at UFC 304 in July 2024. In his typical fast vogue, Aspinall put away Blaydes with strikes in precisely 60 seconds (watch highlights).
The interim champion made it clear earlier than the struggle that he wasn’t going to defend his placeholder crown past Blaydes. He’s prepared and ready for the label to get upgraded.
“Give me my undisputed title, as a result of, for my part, it shouldn’t be two champions in a single weight division,” Aspinall stated. “I believe that’s foolish. This isn’t what the UFC is about, this isn’t what MMA is about. There’s one man in every weight division, and I imagine it’s me. So I’ll be combating the winner.
“As I stated, I’ll be there in the event that they want me,” he continued. “I’ll be match and prepared. I’m coaching proper now. I’m able to go, I’ll be going to go on the sixteenth of November if I must. MSG, the place the place I received the title. I’ll return there and I’ll unify the title there as properly if I must.”
