Tom Aspinall has spoke out about why he thinks current UFC heavyweight champion Jon Jones will be having sleepless nights about the idea of fighting him.
“One of Jon Jones’s biggest advantages that he has over everybody … is that he’s a tape studier,” Aspinall said on The Ariel Helwani show. “… He loves to study opponents like this. He has no chance of doing that with me because my average fight time is shortest in the UFC at 2 minutes and 10 seconds, over 10 fights. That’s something that keeps him up at night, that will keep him up at night, for sure. I’m a massive, massive question mark for him. And I know a lot of his game. He’s got a lot of octagon time over a lot of years. I’ve got next to nothing, next to no footage of me is out there of me doing anything apart from bouncing people’s heads off the canvas. He has no idea what to prepare for and that is fantastic for me.”
Despite that, Aspinall believes that though Jones has often played down the idea of fighting him, the reality is that he does actually want to face the interim champ to prove he’s still the best.
“I think he secretly wants it. Because he has a gigantic ego. And he should have! He’s one of the best fighters ever and he hates the fact, hates the fact, that people are saying I can beat him. He can’t sleep at night. He does all this stuff, and he keeps mentioning it over and over again, that he doesn’t care about me, he thinks he’s above me, and all that. Because this is all projecting. It’s all projecting. All of it. He knows, deep down he knows, he just has to keep saying it because he’s got to defend himself.”
