Jon Anik offers his sincere tackle Jon Jones, HW division
Throughout a current episode of The Anik & Florian Podcast, Anik empathized with followers annoyed with Jones’ inactive title reign.
“I believe part of the fan difficulty, and this might be a vocal minority, is simply a number of the Jon Jones inactivity,” Anik stated of Jones. “A part of that has been a selection, a part of that has been his lack of well being and the torn pectoral muscle that pressured him out of the Stipe Miocic struggle. And a part of this equation is that we’re by no means going to see him struggle Tom Aspinall and lots of people imagine that Tom Aspinall shouldn’t be solely the perfect heavyweight on this planet proper now skill-for-skill, however Michael Bisping and others recommend he may go down as the best heavyweight of all time. He may even have that sort of potential…
“I believe a part of that is simply fan frustration with the dearth of heavyweight title fights, the truth that we’re not going to see Jon Jones towards an arriving at his prime Tom Aspinall. As a substitute, we’re going to see him towards Stipe Miocic, who final competed at 38 years of age, and shall be 42 when he graces the Octagon towards Jon Jones,” Anik continued. “So I can perceive a number of the frustration, however I suppose by way of combined martial arts, every part that it takes to get by a coaching camp wholesome, to comprehend success in numerous eras and totally different divisions…I’d’ve beloved to have seen form of a trip of the title by Jon Jones after the torn pec, simply realizing there was already an interim champion. But when he was not going to try this, I don’t blame the best of all time for not wanting to try this. The promotion wasn’t going to strip him, and that’s why we’re the place we’re at, an interim title protection for Tom Aspinall towards Curtis Blaydes.”
Aspinall will face Blaydes within the UFC 304 co-main occasion on July 27. He has gained two straight fights since an damage stoppage loss to Blaydes in 2022.
Regardless of pleas from Aspinall and UFC followers for Jones to welcome the matchup, the Aspinall vs. Jones struggle will doubtless by no means occur, leaving Anik and others annoyed with the present predicament.