Does this UFC 309 promo curl your toes?

[HoiceNJuicy]

 

[wufabufa]

 

[Sean Chowdhury]

No, 42 year old part time firefighter stipe mumbling his way to a title shot after 4 years of not fighting, coming off a KO loss to the lineal HW champ Ngannou, and looking stiff as an ironing pad in his training videos does not excite me

 

[Only Here for Attachments]

Yes, because I enjoy fighting for what is rather than what I want it to be.

 

[svmr_db]

Good promo, imagine how much more hype there would be if this was happening in 2017/18 though lol.

 

[GordoBarraBJJ]

Stipe from 4yrs ago - I'd favour him.

Nowadays, well there's a reason jon is facing rather than Tom.

 

[JKS]

Can't wait!!!

 

[oski]

 

[SJP_SevenLaker]

Looks like the same uninspired bare minimum trash the ufc has been shoveling out for years.

 

[JKS]

Stipe from 4yrs ago - I'd favour him.

Nowadays, well there's a reason jon is facing rather than Tom.

Well, to be fair, that reason is the UFC wants to put this fight on and wanted to for the past 1.5 years well before Tom was even in the title picture. No one is avoiding Tom now, they're just going along with the original plans. Stipe wants it, Jon wants it and the UFC wants it. You got three parties that want this fight.

Now if Jon doesn't fight Tom after this, then it's a very blatant duck. Huge duck.

 

[Egészségére!]

 

[blaseblase]

Jones should be fighting the interim champion, Tom Aspinall. Stipe should be fighting someone like Curtis Blaydes to show he still has it. I am not invested in this matchup, it does nothing to show us who the best heavyweight in the world is.

 

[World eater]

Biggest fight of all time my ass. But I will certainly watch.

 

[blaseblase]

Well, to be fair, that reason is the UFC wants to put this fight on and wanted to for the past 1.5 years well before Tom was even in the title picture. No one is avoiding Tom now, they're just going along with the original plans. Stipe wants it, Jon wants it and the UFC wants it. You got three parties that want this fight.

Now if Jon doesn't fight Tom after this, then it's a very blatant duck. Huge duck.

The number one contender at the time was Pavlovich. Jones ducked him to fight Stipe. Then Aspinall beat Pavlovich and became the number one contender. And Jones is ducking him now. The Stipe fight never needed to and never should have happened.

Jones has ducked three different fighters. Ngannou, Pavlovich, and Aspinall.

 

[g*r*b]

Stipe's mumble + background music = absolute unintelligibility

 

[svmr_db]

The number one contender at the time was Pavlovich. Jones ducked him to fight Stipe. Then Aspinall beat Pavlovich and became the number one contender. And Jones is ducking him now. The Stipe fight never needed to and never should have happened.

Jones has ducked three different fighters. Ngannou, Pavlovich, and Aspinall.

How can you spin things as Jones ducking Pavlovich? Jones called out Stipe immediately after beating Gane, in March 2023. Pavlovich wasn't ever viewed as the top contender until over a month later when he beat Blaydes.

 

[Blanqa Blanqua]

The Hyperbole was off the carts. lol

Thread title was great too haha

 

[RichardHarrow]

Nope. I want it over and done with so the hw division can move on. It’s a circus act.

 

[JKS]

The number one contender at the time was Pavlovich. Jones ducked him to fight Stipe. Then Aspinall beat Pavlovich and became the number one contender. And Jones is ducking him now. The Stipe fight never needed to and never should have happened.

Jones has ducked three different fighters. Ngannou, Pavlovich, and Aspinall.

Looks like we gout ourselves a typical Jones hater. Delusional and completely full of S##T.

First of all Sergei was not the #1 contender because in almost every scenario that doesn't actually exist. Sergei had a good streak but the UFC and every party involved wanted to make Stipe vs Jones. Jones won the title and called out Stipe, Pavlovich was set to fight Blaydes and wasn't even viewed as the #1 contender.

When Stipe/Jones was made, Aspinal wasn't even in the title picture yet. Just cause he won the interim belt, doesn't mean the UFC is gonna scrap a fight that all three parties want to make.

I don't think you understand this very clearly so let me explain it for you one more time very slowly. Stipe wants to fight Jones, Jones wants to fight Stipe, the UFC who is the promotion wants to makes this fight. All three parties want it. You get it??

And STFU with this Ngnanou BS. Ngannou had the opportunity to fight Jones at UFC 285, he had a contract and fight offer to fight Jones that was agreed to and Ngannou didn't sign the fight and contract and left the UFC.

 

[Goatenstein]

Sean McCorkle vs. Mark Hunt was more relevant at the time it happened than this farce. I don't even like Aspinall but he should just attack them both during introductions.