For all the complaints about boring fighters on here, you'd think Tom would be appreciated more.

[TrueBias]

Seems like 90% of threads are about how boring x fighter is. Guys that just lay 'n pray their way to victory, or even strikers like Strickland are labeled boring because he doesn't finish his opponents.

And yet here we have Tom Aspinall, who has finished every single person he's faced since joining the UFC, and yet he hasn't earned enough goodwill to get a pass after an eye poke?

What does a fighter have to do to earn just a little bit of grace?

Its a tired topic now. With all the replays, the documentary style vids, bottom line, tom chose to end the fight. He has/had a good reason, yes, but showing up to work, only for it to end quickly.......ok ill agree.

Id rather have this happen than 15-30 min of nothing IF I knew going in ahead of time it would suck.

 

[Khaosan]

I don't even know who you are

I’m the guy not melting down over Tom Aspinall being the UFC HW champion.

You must be the other guy.

 

[icemun]

He didn't sit out. He was iced out. What is he supposed to do when he holds the interim belt, defends it while the "Undisputed" guy refuses to unify while waiting a year to fight a retired 3 year on the shelf fire fighter and then still refuses to accept a fight to Unify but doesn't vacate? Tom was booked against Gane as soon as Jon was officially stripped...er I mean retired like he was always going to do.

Stop acting like Tom held up the HW division, that was 100% on Jon and the UFC. BTW guys who have lost a razor close first round have actually come back to win fights.

Tom could have called out other fighters to establish himself as a true champion.

Its what GSP advised him to do


Why he sat around in a holding pattern for Jon was not a move.

 

[icemun]

Sherdog has a way of making outright lies appear true. Lie number one you either read someone else say in jest and parroted or believe in stupidity it is true, is that Tom was the number one contender when Jones signed to fight Stipe. It just took forever to make but that situation didn’t happen at all as you claim. Tom BECAME top contender as Jones was booked to fight Stipe. Shit on a man in honesty none of this lie on a man bitch shit. Distorting mma history is shameful no matter how bad you have hate in your heart

People forget or just ignore that when Jones Stipe was made

Tom was ranked #8 and just LOST to Curtis Blaydes

 

[Alpha_T83]

you skipped the part where he sat out for 18 months

then got his nose bloodied

then quit without using the full 5 minutes

but sure man he's exciting when he's in the cage

"Sat out"

More like the UFC screwed him when Jones ducked him. The UFC should have stripped Jones immediately after he first refused to fight Aspinall, and done Tom vs Gane in early 2025.

 

[icemun]

"Sat out"

More like the UFC screwed him when Jones ducked him. The UFC should have stripped Jones immediately after he first refused to fight Aspinall, and done Tom vs Gane in early 2025.

Jones retired.

Tom could have called out the division, instead he sat around waiting, focusing on Jones.

 

[Alpha_T83]

Jones retired.

Tom could have called out the division, instead he sat around waiting, focusing on Jones.

No sorry that's complete bullshit.

When you're the interim champ you are OWED a unification bout with the champion. If the champion refuses, he should be stripped immediately.

Anything else is braindead garbage.

 

[icemun]

No sorry that's complete bullshit.

When you're the interim champ you are OWED a unification bout with the champion. If the champion refuses, he should be stripped immediately.

Anything else is braindead garbage.

They arent owed shit.

Tom should have manned up, said he was ready to fight anyone in the division

Instead he sat around pleading with a semi retired fighter to acknowledge him

Hell even GSP told him to FIGHT

 

[WildShrimper]

He didn't sit out. He was iced out. What is he supposed to do when he holds the interim belt, defends it while the "Undisputed" guy refuses to unify while waiting a year to fight a retired 3 year on the shelf fire fighter and then still refuses to accept a fight to Unify but doesn't vacate? Tom was booked against Gane as soon as Jon was officially stripped...er I mean retired like he was always going to do.

Stop acting like Tom held up the HW division, that was 100% on Jon and the UFC. BTW guys who have lost a razor close first round have actually come back to win fights.

Spinning the story to make a point always makes people look like clowns. If you have a problem with how Tom has handled the recent fight, say that. People always try to make shit up and exaggerate to make a point.

 

[WildShrimper]

Jones retired.

Tom could have called out the division, instead he sat around waiting, focusing on Jones.

No, that's not how it happened. Jones retired after over a year of backlash from holding up the fight. Stop making shit up.

 

[robby71]

There is quite literally zero proof at all his vision is affected. Every doctor has cleared him.

It's Ricky Bobby Syndrome.

If you have alzheimer how can you prove you have it? Your argument is stupid as fuck

 

[robby71]

Tom could have called out other fighters to establish himself as a true champion.

Its what GSP advised him to do


Why he sat around in a holding pattern for Jon was not a move.

maybe he would have done that if the UFC didn't tell him that the fight will happen

 

[icemun]

No, that's not how it happened. Jones retired after over a year of backlash from holding up the fight. Stop making shit up.

That doesn't refute what I typed.

 

[JustforBROCK]

Seems like 90% of threads are about how boring x fighter is. Guys that just lay 'n pray their way to victory, or even strikers like Strickland are labeled boring because he doesn't finish his opponents.

And yet here we have Tom Aspinall, who has finished every single person he's faced since joining the UFC, and yet he hasn't earned enough goodwill to get a pass after an eye poke?

What does a fighter have to do to earn just a little bit of grace?

Its just sports man ... for whatever reason it brings the absolute worst out of people.

 

[markg171]

If you have alzheimer how can you prove you have it? Your argument is stupid as fuck

Things that can cause Alzheimer's show up on medical tests like brain scans to see if the brain's been damaged or changed, and are observable by other people noticing changes in behaviour and personality.

If Tom really couldn't see he wouldn't have pointed at Gane, walked calmy to the cage, watched the replay, constantly checked to see if his camera is still recording him acting, the doctors would notice he can't see, etc.

Jesus Christ Sherdog's been dumb lately.