Ex-UFC champ comfortable with assessment

Demetrious Johnson believes Tom Aspinall has the bodily attributes to beat UFC heavyweight champion Jon Jones.

Interim champ Aspinall (15-3 MMA, 8-1 UFC) is hoping to get his title unification bout with Jones (28-1 MMA, 22-1 UFC), who defended his title with a third-round TKO of Stipe Miocic in Saturday’s UFC 309 principal occasion.

Jones needs to be compensated handsomely for a possible Aspinall battle, and Johnson sees Aspinall as the person to beat him.

“I feel Tom Aspinall has the velocity, the athleticism and the facility to offer Jon Jones issues,” Johnson stated on his YouTube channel. “Tom Aspinall continues to be younger, and he’s nonetheless getting higher, however I feel this model of Jon Jones vs. Tom Aspinall may be very – Tom Aspinall can beat him.

“I really feel snug saying that simply because you will have someone who’s going to take the battle to Jon Jones and never be scared. Now, can Tom Aspinall run into a type of elbows and a spinning again sh*t and a flying knee? One thousand %.”

Johnson’s present pecking order at heavyweight goes PFL heavyweight superfights champ Francis Ngannou, Jones, then Aspinall. He thinks Ngannou would even be a tricky stylistic matchup for Jones.

“I want I might have seen Jon Jones vs. Tom Aspinall as a result of as soon as once more, I nonetheless suppose the heavyweight king of the world might be Francis Ngannou as a result of he by no means misplaced the heavyweight championship,” Johnson stated. “He knocked out Stipe Miocic, and that was when Stipe Miocic was a bit of bit extra energetic. …

“I feel Francis has the facility issue and the athleticism, and I wager you he can most likely defend Jon Jones’ takedown, and I wager you he can most likely take care of Jon Jones’ vary.”