I think so. Tom has been ducking everyone and pretending he wants to fight JJ. When JJ accepted , he came up with an injury that will as he said in his video, take him off any camp training for 2 months, hence, ducking the original IFW idea for the JJ fight (which would be 6 months for JJ, as JJ posted on his IG on 1st January him training with the "countdown starts now!" captions).
So Tom ducked JJ IFW (which considering how much he bugged for the fight, will lead to not having a shot title as he doesn't want to face JJ). Then Islam was the second option... And he ducked Topuria.
Tom and Islam are the ducks who play perfect MMA fighters... Tom ducking someone smaller and older than him (can't be blamed tho as JJ's talent is second to none) and Islam ducking the first dangerous up and comer he would ever face, which JJ never did... Hard blow to his career.