Media Jailton Almeida calls out Tom Aspinall. Want to see this fight?

[HI SCOTT NEWMAN]

Sure, why not. Lets do it, its much better than waiting and wasting all this time not fighting, Tom needs to be active and fight.

 

[AMAZINGUFC]

I want to see!

It's a dangerous fight for Tom, in fact it's dangerous for anyone.

 

[burningspear]

Yes, Tom needs to fight if the UFC wont force Jones to fight him, Im sick of him chasing a ghost.

 

[CatchtheseHands]

Yes, Tom needs to fight if the UFC wont force Jones to fight him, Im sick of him chasing a ghost.

Tom is not chasing a Ghost. Tom is chasing the belt. He already sad himself he's willing to fight ANYONE as long as it's for the belt.Jon happens to have the belt so of course he's pushing for that fight..

 

[torturescorcher]

NO!!! That's what Jones wants. Anything for him to avoid Tom. Almeida can fight Pavlovich on the same card. This waster Jones is stalling for time, hoping that Tom will lose so he doesn't have to face him.

 

[burningspear]

Tom is not chasing a Ghost. Tom is chasing the belt. He already sad himself he's willing to fight ANYONE as long as it's for the belt.Jon happens to have the belt so of course he's pushing for that fight..

But its up to Jon and the UFC, Jon says NO and has already priced himself out. If the UFC dont strip him whats Tom to do? Wait another year?

 

[Ginja_Ninja]

NO!!! That's what Jones wants. Anything for him to avoid Tom. Almeida can fight Pavlovich on the same card. This waster Jones is stalling for time, hoping that Tom will lose so he doesn't have to face him.

This would be for the undisputed. Jones is not waiting for a loss. Jones know his next fight is Aspinall or walk away from the title. If they set this fight up, its because they stripped Jones.

 

[Steve Fox]

No.

Aspinall vs Jones or strip Jones and Aspinall vs whoever the frigoffricky they want.

This. There's no other option.

 

[Evbo]

I think JJ's order of preference is as follows:

1. Tom fights someone else and loses ("He was never any good")
2. JJ retires stating there's nothing left to add to his legacy
3. JJ deliberately gets arrested and sent to prison for 20+ years
4. - 99. Anything else
100. Fight Tom

 

[Elvis.]

Yes , yes I would like to see this fight , what are we going to do , hold our breath until Jones comes back ? Fuck that

 

[mkess101]

Why would he fight a guy again that he just murked a year ago?

I assumed he meant Almeida takes another shot at beating Blaydes...

 

[AndrewGolota48]

Yes.

If Jones refuses the fight (which I think he will), I think Jailton is the fight to make. Gane has already lost 2 title fights and seems strangely disinterested in fighting. Also, Jailton might be able to put Aspinall on his back, which is something we haven't seen. There are still questions about Aspinall that need to be answered.

That being said, if Alex wins his next fight, I fully expect him to jump the line at HW.

I think we need closure on Gane though, even though yes he does seem strangely disinterested. He was the Aspinall of the division not long ago, and his only losses are to Ngannou (and he dominated Ngannou standing) and Jones, two opponents that Aspinall hasn't fought are in a higher tier than anyone Aspinall has fought.

I will give Gane the benefit of the doubt in the Volkov rematch and assume he truly did have a severe injury, because he literally fought the same opponent and coasted not that long ago, plus he fought that fight much more flat footed and not typical of his usual style at all. This was the only extended fight standing that Gane didn't completely dominate, other then one random shot by Tuivasa of all people. But yeah in reality we probably just get Tom taking him down and beating him up on the ground anyway.

 

[Streeter]

Yaaaay!! Can't wait to replace another fun champ with an ankle biter.

 

[Ares Black]

I don't see Almeida doing particularly well against Aspinall

 

[AmonTobin]

First UFC needs to cut the crap. We need an official announcement that jones is stripped first before booking the next HW title fight.

 

[Pilo]

Not interested in that fight, nope. Too insignificant compared to Aspinall vs Jones.

Sucks to be waiting like that, but Almeida would need at least one more significant win before being eligible in that discussion imo.

 

[Nobru]

Tom is a harder fight for Almeida than current Jones

If jones keeps ducking Tom, why not

 

[Lee Danger]

NO!!! That's what Jones wants. Anything for him to avoid Tom. Almeida can fight Pavlovich on the same card. This waster Jones is stalling for time, hoping that Tom will lose so he doesn't have to face him.

Aspinall couldn't waste time and be inactive just waiting for Jones to be stripped.

 

[goOb]

Honestly, this isn't a bad matchup. Almeida has a good BJJ game and it's really only the loss to Blaydes that is holding him back. Other than that he has put a lot of named HW's in the loser category. Makes sense to me.