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How does he do against the current HWs? Does anyone think prime Cain Velasquez beats Aspinall?
Does anyone think prime Cain Velasquez beats Aspinall?
Lmao. What a shitahow of a post.you guys really think highly of Tom Aspinall... he is 14 and 3... and his best win is Volkov.... he has the same best win as Derrick Lewis... would he destroy prime Cain?
maybe Tom is as good as you guys think... maybe... but he is super unproven.
AgreedHard to tell, there's still many unknowns about Aspinall as of now
Like so far I believe he's only been to the second round twice in the UFC, not a lot to go off of which is a good thing for him since his opponents most likely don't much about him either lol
He's looked great in all his fights however
Cain was a beast at his peak though and would definitely be a top three in today's heavyweight division. Gonna have to sit on the fence on this one for the Cain/Aspinall matchup
An injury free fit Cain Velasquez was the baddest man on Earth, he hit hard, good boxing, elite wrestling, cardio machine who could likely fight an hour. The trilogy with prime JDS showed 2 things, 1) Anyone can be knocked out 2) Cain proved himself twice so much better than the 2nd best HW of his timeDoes anyone think prime Cain Velasquez beats Aspinall? How does he do against the current HWs?
Cain was plagued by career ending injuries and fought through some injuries normal fighters simply wouldn't. Tom is lucky he will get a chance to prove if he's a great but we need to imagine just how far a prime injury free Cain could have been. We can look at DC as an example that he felt Cain was worlds ahead of him (DC being a double champ who defended in both divisions)Lmao. What a shitahow of a post.
You do know Cain is also 14-3 right?
Comparing how Aspinall beat Volkov to how Lewis beat Volkov is laughable. Lewis spend almost 3 full rounds getting pieced up by Volkov before landing a hail Mary punch right at the end of the fight.
Aspinall beat Volkov everywhere, almost effortlessly, like nobody had before or since. He beat him up on the feet, took him down, beat him up on the ground, busted him open with elbows. Let him back up, dodged everything Volkov threw at him and took him back down, the finished him with a straight armbar. All within 3 minutes.
Since you brought up Aspinall's 3 losses. Only 1 of them is a legit defeat. There was a fight he was handily winning, in which there was a shady DQ for 12-6 elbows, which Aspinall insists weren't 12-6 and the organisation mysteriously lost the footage of when he complained to them about it.
Another is a 15 second injury against Blaydes.
People are high on Aspinall because they have watched him fight. Listen to other pro fighters and coaches talk about him, Sherdoggers aren't the only people that are impressed.
Prime Cain vs. Aspinall would be a helluva fight but I'd give the edge by a hair to Aspinall simply because we know Cain's chin can be touched and it usually didn't play out well when that happened.