What year is it? George Foreman fought a slew of killers also, but I don't think I'm going to give him support for a title fight based on those right now.Absolute comedy, if Pav was HW champion both men would have fought him. But Pav has never been that good.
Both men fought prime DC and a slew of men, who would make the HW division look like a children's room.
Pav is the same guy who lost to an old Overeem with no chin, The same one stipe beat years earlier. The dick riding for Aspinal is out of the roof for a guy who beat no one.
Stipe is still the HW with the most accolades at HW and makes sense for an old jon jones. Aspinal is a nobody, who just now got the belt. He is not in front of Stipe because he beat another young fighter who barely moves the meter. This fight was in the making before Aspinal was a twinkle in the eye of the division.
Aspinal can wait
Jon has already ducked Aspinall in plain language, no interpretation necessary. Jon doesn't want any of the smoke from the new generation, and he has said as much. He has no plans or future as a HW champ.
Stipe was a regular world beater, but that was like a century ago.
Neither has a future as a HW champ, that fight is all nostalgia. Bring on the real HW championship.