Tom Aspinall believes he should be the man fighting Jon Jones, not Stipe Miocic.
UFC 295 saw Aspinall score his first world title, capturing the interim heavyweight championship following a stunning first-round knockout of Sergei Pavlovich in the evening’s co-main event.
The bout was slapped together just two weeks ahead of fight night after the division’s undisputed titleholder Jon Jones was forced to withdraw from his headliner against Stipe Miocic. Instead of securing a replacement opponent for Miocic, the promotion opted to book the interim title fight.
I still mentally can’t comprehend Tom Aspinall came off the couch, basically didn’t train at all, and then smoked the scariest contender at heavyweight who was on a 6 fight first round KO streak, in one minute.