Interim UFC heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall gave British gymnast Nile Wilson a small style of his energy.
“I’m going to kick Nile Wilson within the leg, about 30% I reckon,” Aspinall stated in a clip shared on his YouTube channel.
The Salford, England native examined the Olympic medalist first, throwing a feint to see whether or not or not Wilson would flinch. “He took my recommendation,” Aspinall stated as Wilson held his place and braced for the worst. It was then that Aspinall uncorked a kick that instantly took Wilson off his ft.
For these unfamiliar, Nile Wilson received an Olympic bronze medal within the males’s horizontal bar on the 2016 Summer time Video games. He additionally etched his title within the historical past books a yr earlier on the 2015 World Inventive Gymnastics Championships by being a part of the primary world males’s workforce to medal in British gymnastics historical past.
Tom Aspinall is transferring on from a combat with the winner of Jones vs. Miocic?
Tom Aspinall’s vicious 69-second knockout of Sergei Pavlovich at UFC 295 seemingly set the stage for an epic showdown between himself and the promotion’s undisputed heavyweight titleholder, Jon Jones.
Sadly, it seems as if UFC followers might by no means see that combat come to fruition. Following Apsinall’s large win, ‘Bones’ and UFC head honcho Dana White made it clear that their prime precedence was to rebook a beforehand scheduled conflict between Jones and former two-time titleholder Stipe Miocic — a call that would depart Aspinall ready on the bench for a yr or extra.
Including insult to damage, each Jones and Miocic have teased their potential retirement as soon as they settle the nice heavyweight GOAT debate. Once more, the place does that depart Tom Aspinall?
As an alternative of sitting round ready for one thing that will by no means come, Aspinall appears intent on defending his interim belt this summer time with the likeliest opponent being Curtis Blaydes who’s coming off a large second-round knockout win over Jailton Almeida. It additionally helps that ‘Razor’ is the one man to carry a win over Aspinall contained in the Octagon, even when it was the results of a freak damage.
“Curtis Blaydes it’s then,” Aspinall stated in an interview with JN Media. “I’m straightforward, I’m the best individual ever to entice right into a combat. I’ve by no means turned one down but. So something that’s stopping me from combating proper now will not be all the way down to me, it’s all the way down to the UFC. So I’m simply ready for the UFC to let me know who and when and I’ll be prepared.”
Maybe we’ll know extra about Aspinall’s future as soon as UFC 300 is within the books. For now, we’ll take advantage of out of his leg-kicking tumblers half his dimension.
