Israel Adesanya spoke on a podcast this week a couple of potential struggle between Jon Jones and Tom Aspinall, however he believes that the heavyweight conflict won’t ever occur.
The Final Stylebender Backing Jon Jones
Everybody needs to see a struggle between Tom Aspinall and Jon Jones and it’s the solely factor that anybody can speak about within the MMA world proper now, together with Israel Adesanya.
‘The Final Stylebender’ appeared on the Flagrant podcast earlier this week discussing all issues UFC and there was no surprises when Aspinall and Jones had been introduced up.
It’s 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫 𝐓𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲! Who subsequent for Jon Jones after #UFC309?! pic.twitter.com/DF98JdvmjS
— UFC Europe (@UFCEurope) November 19, 2024
When he was requested about Aspinall and Jones probably assembly sooner or later Adesanya discovered it exhausting to choose a winner, however he would nonetheless be backing the present heavyweight champion in the event that they had been to struggle.
“That’s the struggle that all of us need to see. They’ve obtained to struggle. I feel, f*ck, (Jones) finds a approach however Aspinall to date, the way in which he dispatched of (Sergei Pavlovich), oh my god, he’s quick.
“I met him and sat subsequent to him at UFC 300, he and his dad, cool dudes, beautiful guys as effectively, however he’s the identical top as me if not an inch taller however thick. And I used to be like ‘F*ck, you’re loads thicker than I might count on’, and the velocity, that’s the factor that I’m like, ‘Okay that’s the hazard’.”
Nevertheless very like most UFC followers, Adesanya believes we could by no means be blessed with a heavyweight title bout for the ages between Aspinall and Jones – with ‘Bones’ persevering with to dodge Aspinall.
“I don’t know man, they must struggle but when they don’t ever struggle, we’ll by no means know as a result of we had that with Jon and (Anderson) Silva, we had that with Silva and (Georges St-Pierre) so there are all these fights that we’ll by no means see.”
🚨 Jon Jones says he’s at present in negotiations with the UFC for his subsequent struggle, and says he WILL be combating in 2025 “greater than seemingly” 👀
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— Championship Rounds (@ChampRDS) November 24, 2024
Each Jones and Aspinall are but to conform to their subsequent struggle within the Octagon and whereas it stays unrealistic, followers should be handled to the title struggle they so desperately crave.