Media Demetrious Johnson/Rockhold: Tom Aspinall Should Be "STRIPPED" Of Title When Jon Jones Fights Stipe

[Black9]

Happens around the 57 Minute Mark

They agree with Chael Sonnen's original take and emphasize Tom should be stripped of interm title even if Jones doesnt wanna fight him because the real champion is active again

 

[Yep]

Or, Jones should’ve had to fight Aspinall.

 

[Dorkman]

That's not how it's supposed to work. You're no longer undisputed champion when there's an interim title holder disputing your championship claim. It's on the champion to unify or be stripped himself. But we all know those rules aren't going to apply

 

[blaseblase]

Jones isn't active, he's still injured. What should happen is Jones should be stripped when Aspinall defends the interim title. Since Aspinall is defending the title first it's no longer really an interim.

 

[WaylonMercy5150]

Dumb. They sound like oldheads. If anything Jones should be stripped of the title once Tom fights.

 

[Psychojoe86]

This has been my fear for many months now. Aspinall theoretically cannot be interim champ with a title defense if jones defends the real title against someone else.

We’ll see how ufc handles it tho since it’s unprecedented

 

[Neck&Neck]

DJ is turning into a straight buster these days

 

[Pechan]

That is an insanely dump take.

 

[HHJ]

Man Demetrious and Rockhold need to shut the fuck up.

They literally pulled Stipe out of a coffin for this fight.

 

[SamuraiBro]

I’m surprised DJ has this shit of a take.

 

[13Seconds]

Demetrious has a great mind for the game but he's been saying some stupid shit lately. I think thats the downside of the long podcast format. He's been doing alot of those lately.

When you're chatting with your mates for hours and hours, dumb shit will come out. And nerds online will make headlines about it. Shit even "journalists".

Nothing to see here folks.

 

[humdizzle]

DJ is boys with Jones so it makes sense.

UFC was also dumb in the contract they gave Jones. prior to the gane fight he signed an 8 fight deal. probably led the ufc to believe he was going to be active.

 

[Arm Barbarian]

Other way around. Jones is literally fighting a guy who hasn't fought in ages, who's last outing he got flatlined in.

Juicehead refusing to fight the interim champ should mean he forfeits the title.

 

[K---]

DJ always just been smart, for a fighter. AKA still pretty fucking dumb. Shilling for Xbox without getting paid? Dorky, cuck for business type shit.

 

[nonoob]

C'mon DJ, to punish Tom for the belt-gifted, always hiding "champ" Still Not Fighting Tom would suck.

Tom beat ALMOST as many HW fighters as Pico has ducked from...ALMOST.

 

[RockyLockridge]

Jones isn't active, he's still injured. What should happen is Jones should be stripped when Aspinall defends the interim title. Since Aspinall is defending the title first it's no longer really an interim.

Only other time i can remember this happening is barao. Defended an interim title twice.

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

Strip them both and Tom vs Blaydes is for the real belt

 

[laleggenda27]

MM is getting this from Chael, who basically said that the interim belt goes away once the real champion is active again. In other words, the interim title only exists while the real title is unavailable to be defended.

It makes a level of sense on the surface, but it misses the larger point: once the real champion is ready to fight, the title is no longer "undisputed" and needs to be unified. If one of the champions refuses the fight, he should be stripped and the other fighter elevated to "undisputed."

 

[Thepaintbucket]

Nope. Tom fought for the interim belt. You don't take that away after giving it to him.

 

[HHJ]

MM is getting this from Chael, who basically said that the interim belt goes away once the real champion is active again. In other words, the interim title only exists while the real title is unavailable to be defended.

It makes a level of sense on the surface, but it misses the larger point: once the real champion is ready to fight, the title is no longer "undisputed" and needs to be unified. If one of the champions refuses the fight, he should be stripped and the other fighter elevated to "undisputed."

If the champ is active again he must beat the interim champ to become undisputed again. Otherwise his status is still "in dispute"

UFC could be dicks and strip Tom if they wanted to but they should have never given it to him in the first place, just to take it off him for no reason. They knew Jones was never gonna fight him for it. So they are stuck with Tom as interim until Jones finally fucks off.