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Stipe Miocic advises Tom Aspinall on future fight with Jon Jones: ‘Don’t do what I did’

Former two-time heavyweight kingpin, Stipe Miocic was blunt in his advice to current interim champion, Tom Aspinall if he is to share the Octagon with UFC star, Jon Jones later this year — urging him to avoid the same outcome he was treated to back in November.

Miocic, a former two-time heavyweight gold holder, made his final Octagon outing last year at UFC 309, suffering an eventual third round spinning back-kick knockout loss after a barrage of strike to the body from heavyweight champion, Jones.

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Stipe Miocic offers candid advice to Tom Aspinall pre-Jon Jones fight

And calling time on his decorated professional career in the immediate aftermath of his loss, Miocic — who claimed this week that Francis Ngannou was a “badder” fighter than Jones — having shared the Octagon with both, offered some candid advice to British favorite, Aspinall if he’s to fight the former pound-for-pound pacesetter.