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Tom Aspinall and Jon Jones for the UFC heavyweight championship is the biggest fight the company could possibly make right now. The fans want the fight. Aspinall wants the fight. But does Jones want the fight? The UFC legend has repeatedly claimed that he wants to make the fight happen. He said the same things about Francis Ngannou. And yet, no fight has been made.
Now, not only has Aspinall gotten sick of waiting, but it appears that his father, Andy, has as well. Andy Aspinall expressed his frustration with Jones and the UFC on his son’s YouTube page during a series documenting Tom Aspinall’s day-to-day life.
“It’s stupid,” Andy Aspinall said. “I have no idea the reason why the UFC don’t really want Tom to fight anybody else other than Jon Jones.
“‘Stay tuned,’ that’s the message they wanted Tom to give out to people. And we had the meeting with Hunter [Campbell], and they’re going to try and fix the fight with Jon Jones, but we’re still in April now, still for this guy to say, ‘I’ll have a fight’ or ‘I’ll not have a fight,’ and I don’t really understand that. He’s a fighter that should be having fights.
“Why is he still sitting around, not giving an answer as to whether he’s going to fight or not?”
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Aspinall, 32, is 8-1 in his UFC career with his lone loss coming due to a knee injury suffered in a fight against Curtis Blaydes in 2022. He won the interim UFC heavyweight title against Sergei Pavlovich in November of 2023 then defended it in a rematch against Blaydes in July of 2024, a fight which he won by knockout.
But to this point, there’s no official plan for Aspinall and Jones to meet and decide a real champion.
“What else can he do?,” Andy Aspinall asked. “He can fight lesser people than Jon Jones, lesser ranked people than Jon Jones, but that means he may miss the opportunity to fight Jon Jones — which is a massive opportunity because he’s the champion and he’s the best there’s ever been. If Tom beats him, that’s great.
“What other choice does he got to sit around? He could fight the No. 8 ranked guy now, but why should No. 1 fight No. 8? It’s all a bit folly to me.”