Ben Askren on Tom Aspinall : "I almost feel like Jones ‘got some dirt on’ Dana White"

[payton]

“I almost feel like maybe Jon’s got some dirt on Dana or something, because Dana generally would not put up with this type of behavior,”

“He would say, and this is what the UFC is founded on where boxing [wasn’t], is, ‘We want the best guys to fight. We want to see who the actual best guy is. We don’t want to waste time with shenanigans, we won’t want to pad records to go to 40-0, we don’t do that, that’s what boxing does. In the UFC, we put the best guys in there and see who wins.’


“So the fact that Jon is being — I don’t want to say, [I don’t know] if allowed is the right term, but Dana’s playing along, and letting him and Stipe fight."

“Dana almost always presses these issues with the best guys, it’s pretty rare when he hasn’t,” Askren said. “Like Sean [O’Malley] and Merab [Dvalishvili], he’s making that happen. He let Sean fight ‘Chito,’ that was one fight, but now Sean and Merab are fighting.”

Ben Askren: I almost feel like Jon Jones ‘got some dirt on’ Dana White with Tom Aspinall saga

Ben Askren doesn’t understand why the UFC and Dana White haven’t fully shifted gears from Jon Jones vs. Stipe Miocic, to Jones vs. Tom Aspinall.

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[World eater]

We all think that Ben.

 

[Evbo]

I don’t even think he has dirt on Dana, I think it’s more that Dana sees this as the final drop of blood that can be squeezed from the Jon Jones stone

 

[Morris88]

Shut up Ben

 

[ryun253]

He's probably Jones coke dealer, living up to his last name

 

[don't ask]

I agree. I wouldn't be surprised if Dana did a lot of shady shit for Jones' benefit behind the scenes, things we don't even know about, and now Jones has a "if I go down, you go down" attitude.

 

[Pierced7681]

It’s fairly obvious why Dana is promoting Jon Jones. First off, his record speaks for itself, but he also needs someone to promote as being better than Ngannou who left the ufc with the real heavyweight title. So long as Jones is around, Dana can claim they have the guy Ngannou didn’t want to fight and chose to leave.

 

[ryun253]

It’s fairly obvious why Dana is promoting Jon Jones. First off, his record speaks for itself, but he also needs someone to promote as being better than Ngannou who left the ufc with the real heavyweight title. So long as Jones is around, Dana can claim they have the guy Ngannou didn’t want to fight and chose to leave.

His debut at HW was promoted very well, LOTS of people on social media reposting & interacting to his win

 

[Pierced7681]

His debut at HW was promoted very well, LOTS of people on social media reposting & interacting to his win

Yea Jones is a draw for sure, but it won’t really matter to much when he retires. Dana won’t need him for too much longer as it looks like Aspinall is going to be the top guy for awhile, and he’s someone Ngannou never fought so Dana can just say Tom would smash Ngannou if they ever fought.

 

[Corrado Soprano]

Dana White is like Cus D’Amato to Jon Jones.

 

[Dr Fong]

Shitdog needs to implement mandatory 'how the ESPN deal works' training before letting mongs post about Jones-Stipe.

 

[Fossor]

We want the best guys to fight. We want to see who the actual best guy is

Then why did he need to bring Ben Askren to the UFC?

 

[payton]

Then why would he bring Ben Askren to UFC?

This is incredibly graphic and not for the faint of heart. Delete that before the mods see it.

 

[crabmeat]

Then why did he need to bring Ben Askren to the UFC?

It was a chess move. He wanted Johnson out, and wanted to humiliate Askren.

At the end, he did both.

 

[Goatenstein]

Askren would have dominated K-1 in the 90s.

 

[TriangleMonkey]

Askren would have dominated K-1 in the 90s.

Lumpinee goat imo

 

[pamirec]

There are a few reasons why Dana is so stubborn in this situation, but it’s mainly his ego imo.

 

[GordonMMARamsey]

Lol what kind of dirt does he have? We watched a video of him slapping the shit out of his wife and he said "so fucking what" can carried on like nothing happened.

 

[NoSmilez]

There is no dirt. It’s like either he does this or Jon retires. He might as well try to get a big PPV out of Jon.

 

[acannxr]

It’s fairly obvious why Dana is promoting Jon Jones. First off, his record speaks for itself, but he also needs someone to promote as being better than Ngannou who left the ufc with the real heavyweight title. So long as Jones is around, Dana can claim they have the guy Ngannou didn’t want to fight and chose to leave.

Which is so two-faced it borders on hilarity because prior to Ngannou leaving, Dana outright suggested that Jones should move down to Middleweight (implying that Jones was scared of Ngannou).