How good is Aspinall's cardio

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I've seen him fight only two or three times and he finished fools in the first round every time. Now that's great but what it's like for him to go into 3rd round in a fatiguing grappling-dominated contest. Does he become flat footed after a while or is he still light on his feet and capable of pushing the pace? Aspinall isn't the biggest of heavyweights. We straightway knew Cain, JDS, Stipe, Randy could fight for five rounds and they have proven that. Is he on their championship level or just a one trick pony?
 
The truth is, we won't know until somebody is actually able to take him into deep waters.

Aspinall trains for it, he said he regularly goes the full 25 in camp. And he still maintains he's shown maybe 10% of his overall game and he enjoys being a mystery.

Ultimately though, I don't think he can be criticised on not going to the later rounds. It's up to his opponents to get him there, and as of now, nobody has been able to take him past the 3 minute mark except for Arlovski. It isnt like Aspinall is fighting bums. Volkov, Blaydes, Pavlovich etc are the best the division has to offer, and none of them can even come close to seeing the end of the 1st round. Aspinall's offense is just so overwhelming.
 
We havent seen it so I guess no one knows the answer to that

And I do believe he wouldnt need over 3 rounds to finish Jones, so even if they fight you might still have that question unanswered
 
His longest fight is 8:59. Almost every single fight ends around 1 minute. How could any of us know?
 
We don’t know as no one can get him out of the first round (ok, one guy did ages ago)

So he should fight Jon and we might find out

Shame Jon is afraid and his fan girls are even more terrified
 
I suspect Tom wont have an issue going 5 rounds as long as he can manage his energy output and not have an adrenaline dump. He says he trains for it and he's a BJJ black belt so he has to be used to spending a lot of time grappling. I think he would be fine. Probably better than Pico.
 
We've seen him get ragdolled earlier in his career before the UFC, you could blame it on bad cardio or bad TDD or a mix of both, either way having weaknesses in that part of your game isn't good vs someone like Jones
 
Elegant said:
We've seen him get ragdolled earlier in his career before the UFC, you could blame it on bad cardio or bad TDD or a mix of both, either way having weaknesses in that part of your game isn't good vs someone like Jones
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You realise it was almost 10 years ago and he was 22 at that time?
 
Let's see what he looks like the next time someone survives past 2 minutes.

He seems to be a great professional so I'd assume his cardio is also very good for a HW since he's overall very athletic and composed. He's also not carrying an enormous amount of muscle relative to his frame.
 
Elegant said:
We've seen him get ragdolled earlier in his career before the UFC, you could blame it on bad cardio or bad TDD or a mix of both, either way having weaknesses in that part of your game isn't good vs someone like Jones
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10 years ago when he was like 20 years old and had 3 pro fights. He probably hasn't shored that stuff up with a DECADE of full time training. Most likely he's the same guy who's just gotten lucky with a lot of early KO's.
 
The only time we've seen him deep was against Arlovski. He looked pretty average.

That's why I understand where Jones is coming from. Tom seems impressive but there are still a lot of questions. I do think he's better than Gane but it could be a similar situation where Jones just drags him out of the first first round and he's huffing and puffing and Jon just has his way with him. Then it's a flood of comments the next day of "Tom suxxx! He was never tested or good. Jones needs to fight XXXX to prove he's the real champion".

That's just how it goes with people who are dominant. From GSP, Fedor, Anderson. The narrative was always "This guy is going to be the one to beat him".
 
Senzo Tanaka said:
The only time we've seen him deep was against Arlovski. He looked pretty average.

That's why I understand where Jones is coming from. Tom seems impressive but there are still a lot of questions. I do think he's better than Gane but it could be a similar situation where Jones just drags him out of the first first round and he's huffing and puffing and Jon just has his way with him. Then it's a flood of comments the next day of "Tom suxxx! He was never tested or good. Jones needs to fight XXXX to prove he's the real champion".

That's just how it goes with people who are dominant. From GSP, Fedor, Anderson. The narrative was always "This guy is going to be the one to beat him".
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If Jon thought it would be an easy win, he would have taken the fight. Instead he's come up with every excuse possible not to fight him. He also said he would want to get paid so much that it wouldn't really matter if he won or lost the fight, which means he's well aware that it's his toughest challenge.

Only idiots would say Tom wasn't any good if he loses to Jon. His HW-resume, and even his interim championship reign, is better than Jones too.

Imagine holding it against a fighter that he finishes fights too fast.

Reminds me of Josh Thompson insisting Khamzat doesn't deserve a titleshot from finishing Whittaker in round 1, because we didn't get to see him reach a 4th or 5th round.
 
Senzo Tanaka said:
The only time we've seen him deep was against Arlovski. He looked pretty average.

That's why I understand where Jones is coming from. Tom seems impressive but there are still a lot of questions. I do think he's better than Gane but it could be a similar situation where Jones just drags him out of the first first round and he's huffing and puffing and Jon just has his way with him. Then it's a flood of comments the next day of "Tom suxxx! He was never tested or good. Jones needs to fight XXXX to prove he's the real champion".

That's just how it goes with people who are dominant. From GSP, Fedor, Anderson. The narrative was always "This guy is going to be the one to beat him".
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Huh? He became the 2nd guy in 60 fights to submit Arlovski. Never got tired, never got hurt, just didn’t finish AA in round 1. That’s not “pretty average.” That fight was also like 3-4 years ago now. He keeps getting better and better and is in his prime.
 
188912345 said:
If Jon thought it would be an easy win, he would have taken the fight.
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False. Fights can be both easy and dangerous, and Jon doesn't particularly want dangerous fights, regardless of how easy they might be.
 
It'll be interesting once he faces a good wrestler who actually is willing to shoot on him. He's kind of where Gane was pre Ngannou, his TDD hasn't been truly tested since he was taken down multiple times and submitted in 2015.
 
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Huh? He became the 2nd guy in 60 fights to submit Arlovski. Never got tired, never got hurt, just didn’t finish AA in round 1. That’s not “pretty average.” That fight was also like 3-4 years ago now. He keeps getting better and better and is in his prime.
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"Pretty average" is a lot better than Arlovski looked in round two of that fight, who looked like Daniel Cormier after chasing down a truck offering free Popeyes.
 
Kinda hard to say. But he seems like a gym rat. Probably good for a heavy weight
 
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