Daniel Cormier thinks Jon Jones goes to combat Tom Aspinall, finally.
For almost two years, one of many greatest tales in MMA has been the potential heavyweight title combat between Jones and Aspinall, with little or no to indicate for it. Whereas UFC CEO Dana White insists the combat goes to occur sooner or later, Jones has been more and more cryptic and noncommittal to the bout, whereas Aspinall is left ready for his alternative to unify titles. And in line with Cormier, the maintain up is Jones coming to phrases with a brand new actuality: he’s abruptly the previous man within the sport.
“Jon now’s a 38-year-old man taking a look at a 30-year-old man that’s larger, that’s youthful, that’s brisker, and going — it’s flipped,” Cormier mentioned on his YouTube channel. “‘I don’t see the wear and tear and tear on their faces anymore, I see the wear and tear and tear on mine.’ He noticed with Stipe [Miocic], Stipe seemed older from all that point away. Now he’s wanting down at a younger man, and he’s like, ’Eh.’
“He’s not scared, make no mistake about it. However I believe it’s sufficient to query. And you already know what I believe a giant fear is likely to be for him? With Aspinall, he may probably get knocked out. Like, legitimately knocked out and placed on his again out chilly. I simply don’t know that he desires to have that visible of him on the planet. He’s knocked out plenty of guys and he’s by no means had —as a result of I’ve seen myself get beat, and I’m like, ‘God, that’s such a horrible visible each time.’”
Jones has by no means been knocked out in competitors, along with his solely profession loss infamously coming by means of disqualification. Aspinall, in the meantime, has knocked out his previous three opponents in a mixed 3 minutes and 22 seconds of combat time. That’s a part of what makes the matchup so compelling for followers, arguably the best fighter of all time taking over maybe his most harmful problem ever. However at this level, followers appear to be shedding hope that the bout will ever occur. Cormier, although, nonetheless believes, if for no different motive than Jones’s ego gained’t let him stroll away.
“I don’t know that he vacates with out preventing him, as a result of I believe the visible and the lasting thought can be that ‘He ran from him,’ and I don’t know his ego may deal with that he ran from somebody,” Cormier mentioned. “The concept individuals would assume he’s afraid means extra to him than going on the market and preventing him and taking the possibility. Particularly when there’s an actual chance that he simply outclasses Tom Aspinall.
“There’s an actual chance that he goes on the market and he outclasses Tom Aspinall. You don’t know. So I believe that he’ll combat him. I don’t assume they’ll have to strip him, I believe he’ll combat him. And regardless that he may stroll away and go, ‘I’m the most effective, I don’t have to do anything.’ The concept he ran goes to be too sturdy of a pull for him as he goes into the following section of his profession.”
