UFC interim heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall has made it clear in no uncertain terms that his next fight must be for the undisputed heavyweight title.
Aspinall had been calling for Jon Jones to be stripped of the heavyweight title due to the fact that he’ll be out for a long period of time due to his injured pectoral muscle, which would enable him to fight Stipe Miocic for the title instead.
However, Dana white has ruled that out, insisting that Jones vs. Miocic must be next, but Aspinall feels that’s the wrong move.
“I absolutely love the sport of MMA, UFC in particular,” Aspinall said on the “True Geordie” podcast. “I’m so proud to be fighting for the best MMA organization in the world. What that represents for me is the best fighting the best. And I’m a massive boxing fan, I absolutely love the sport of boxing, (but) I f*cking can’t stand the boxing model. There should not be five, six different world champions at one weight. … Let’s find out who the f*cking guy is. That’s what I want to find out. There’s two champions right now in the UFC heavyweight division. That’s not right.
“You can sugarcoat it all you want, these legacy fights and whatever. My next fight has to be for the undisputed title. Why would they do otherwise. Let’s f*cking find out who the guy is, simple as that. All this legacy fight sh*t, I don’t understand how that can happen. Yeah, let them have a legacy fight, but why for the undisputed title? Why are you making the rest of us wait? I understand it’s Jon Jones. There’s no person walking this earth who is a bigger Jon Jones fan than me, but this isn’t boxing. This isn’t guys avoiding each other. This isn’t the No. 1 guy fighting the No. 10 guy. Let’s find out who the f*cking guy is, because I believe it’s me.”
White had stated recently that Aspinall could defend the interim title in the mean-time if he wants to, but the UK star is adamant that he won’t agree to that.
“It’s very odd, and obviously I don’t want to sit here slagging off my bosses, but it’s not right. They can’t be two f*cking heavyweight champions. It can’t be. This isn’t boxing. There’s one guy, one face, one name, and let’s find out who that is.”
