Daniel Cormier thinks Jon Jones goes to struggle Tom Aspinall, finally.
For almost two years, one of many greatest tales in MMA has been the potential heavyweight title struggle between Jones and Aspinall, with little or no to indicate for it. Whereas UFC CEO Dana White insists the struggle 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 And in keeping with Cormier, the maintain up is Jones coming to phrases with a brand new actuality: he’s abruptly the outdated man within the sport.
“Jon now’s a 38-year-old man taking a look at a 30-year-old man that’s greater, that’s youthful, that’s brisker, and going — it’s flipped,” Cormier mentioned on his YouTube channel. “‘I don’t see the damage and tear on their faces anymore, I see the damage and tear on mine.’ He noticed with Stipe [Miocic], Stipe regarded older from all that point away. Now he’s trying 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 realize what I believe a giant fear could 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 needs to have that visible of him on the earth. He’s knocked out numerous 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, together with his solely profession loss infamously coming by the use of disqualification. Aspinall, in the meantime, has knocked out his previous three opponents in a mixed 3 minutes and 22 seconds of struggle 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 dropping hope that the bout will ever occur. Cormier, although, nonetheless believes, if for no different purpose than Jones’s ego gained’t let him stroll away.
“I don’t know that he vacates with out combating him, as a result of I believe the visible and the lasting thought could 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 that folks would suppose he’s afraid means extra to him than going on the market and combating him and taking the prospect. Particularly when there’s an actual risk that he simply outclasses Tom Aspinall.
“There’s an actual risk that he goes on the market and he outclasses Tom Aspinall. You don’t know. So I believe that he’ll struggle him. I don’t suppose they’ll have to strip him, I believe he’ll struggle him. And though he may stroll away and go, ‘I’m one of the best, I don’t have to do anything.’ The concept that he ran goes to be too sturdy of a pull for him as he goes into the subsequent part of his profession.”
