Brandon Gibson is assured in how Jon Jones matches up in opposition to Tom Aspinall.
Gibson, UFC heavyweight champion Jones’ (27-1 MMA, 21-1 UFC) putting coach, has little doubt that his star scholar has the instruments to beat interim champ Aspinall (15-3 MMA, 8-1 UFC).
Jones isn’t offered on Aspinall being a useful struggle for his legacy, but when the matchup had been to materialize, Gibson expects Jones’ expertise to play a giant issue as effectively.
“Aspinall’s an awesome interim champ. He’s had an awesome heavyweight profession to date,” Gibson instructed Inside Preventing. “I believe there’s nonetheless numerous unknowns, which could possibly be a profit to Tom, but additionally numerous these unknowns could possibly be a giant profit to us. Like, how is he going to do in deep water? How is he going to do in later rounds?
“There’ll most likely be numerous strain on him to attempt to begin quick. So with all that mentioned, we’ve respect for all of those nice opponents and champions, however I believe Jon has solved much more complicated issues, and I believe simply Jon’s combined martial arts recreation, his IQ, his tempo, his power would all land in our favor and Jon victorious as soon as once more.”
Jones is recent off his first title protection at heavyweight, a Spherical 3 TKO of Stipe Miocic lower than two weeks in the past within the UFC 309 fundamental occasion. In the meantime, Aspinall defended his interim title with a first-round TKO of Curtis Blayes within the UFC 304 headliner in July.
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