UFC commentator Jon Anik has given his ideas on the Jon Jones/Tom Aspinall ‘ducking’ controversy.
As we all know, Jon Jones appears fairly set on competing on the UFC White Card subsequent summer season – maybe even in the primary occasion. With that being mentioned, Jon has some work to do to be able to obtain such a placement. That features apologizing to Dana White after ‘Bones’ not too long ago admitted that he was within the unsuitable with how he approached the state of affairs that ended with him retiring from blended martial arts as a substitute of combating Tom Aspinall.
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As we all know, Aspinall not too long ago defended his UFC heavyweight championship in opposition to Ciryl Gane, with the struggle ending in a no contest because of a double eye poke. This led to quite a lot of criticism from the MMA neighborhood directed in direction of Tom which, unsurprisingly, Jones joined in on.
In a current podcast, Jon Anik weighed in on the Jones/Aspinall ordeal and gave his personal view on it.
Anik’s view on Jones/Aspinall state of affairs
“He didn’t need the Tom Aspinall struggle,” Anik mentioned on his “Anik & Florian Podcast” with Kenny Florian. “There was legacy-preservation happening. He verbally agreed to a strong quantity, then went again on his phrase. He’s apologizing and saying he was unsuitable.
“Despite the fact that I don’t see him as a pure heavyweight and I’ve a nature to see him to struggle ‘Poatan,’ Jon Jones vs. Tom Aspinall, whereas it’s not Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Tony Ferguson, for me, it’s the one which acquired away and that could be a struggle that I used to be extra intrigued to see than Jon Jones vs. ‘Poatan,’ and I feel I’m aligned with the large boss there.”
“Clearly Jon Jones needs the ‘Poatan’ struggle. He needs it on the White Home,” Anik mentioned. “There are some rumblings possibly it wouldn’t be on President Trump’s birthday, June 14 I feel it’s, and it could be at another cut-off date.
“Jon Jones would wish the self-discipline to have a coaching camp and clearly the Alex Pereira coaching camp takes on a completely completely different tone than a Tom Aspinall coaching camp, even when Jon believes Aspinall’s wrestling and grappling is overrated.”
Quotes through MMA Junkie
