Tom Aspinall knocked out Sergei Pavlovich at UFC 295 in November to claim the interim heavyweight title.
Aspinall has been very vocal calling out Jon Jones but that fight doesn’t seem be materialising any time soon with the MMA legend recovering from injury and waiting to face Stipe Miocic instead.
One fight that could happen though is a rematch with Curtis Blaydes who Aspinall lost to after suffering a horrendous knee injury just fifteen seconds into their fight two years ago.
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And speaking to OLBin Aspinall revealed the rematch could be his first fight of 2024. He said:
“I think that I’ll have a rematch with Curtis Blaydes in the UK. I win that and then the UFC have no choice but to have me fight for the undisputed title, in that case I’d have to wait out to see what happens with Jones and Miocic.
“But I’m a fighter and I just want to fight. I want big fights and I want the fights for all the glory. I feel like I’ve proved that to this point.
“I’ve been getting a lot of hate and pressure online from people just for saying that I want to fight the best guys in the world. That’s what fighting and being the champion is about. The champion is the guy who beats all the other guys and I’m just trying to be that. I’m not being entitled or political or anything like that. I’m trying to be the guy who beats the other guys. I’m not trying to offend anyone or step on anyone’s toes.
“He knows I’m trying to fight him and I’m not that guy who’s going to keep crying about it. I’ve had a go, he doesn’t want it, I’m not going to keep going for it. That’s it. Hopefully the Blaydes fight, or the next fight with whoever that may be against will be enough to make Jon Jones stick around to fight me, and that’s it, I can’t really do anything else.”
