So Jones wants another 6 months to prepare AFTER he signs the fight

[JKS]

okay sir as long as it makes you live a happy life, i will agree with you! jones the religious, family man, a brave man he is!

definitely not a character to hit and run a pregnant woman either

I never said he was a good guy or ethical. Jon certainly is not the best person

 

[Ginja_Ninja]

Jon has to defend and immediately turn around again, meanwhile Tom gets to sit on his ass for a year.

You people are insane.

Not immediately, 6 months seems more than fair enough for a champion coming off a 1.5 year lay off and a 3 year lay off right before that.

Tom has no interest in sitting on his ass for a year, he will fight next week if it is for the undisputed.

You insane for thinking that the Jone's accomplishments in the LHW division 10 years ago should have any bearing on scheduling current fights. Doesn't matter how good you use to be, the title has been fought for once in two years and we know who your opponent is going to be. Either sign, retire, or walk away from the title and go fight your legends lol.

The expectation is that champions defend against the contenders in a reasonable amount of time.

 

[Epsteins Guard]

You guys cry about Jones supposedly ducking this guy and now that he accepts and wants an adequate amount of time to prepare, a 40 year old slow battle worn Jones is “stealing Tom Aspinalls prime”

You can’t make this shit up

Jones haters remain the most delusional mentally deranged group of weirdos in MMA I swear

Yup, Jones just needed an "adequate" amount of time to move up to HW and fight someone who's not a freebie fight.

In this case, "adequate amount of time" is only about 5 years and running now... lmao

 

[Young Calf Kick]

I'm not the retard complaining about inactivity while being a fan of Yoel Romero who's even less active.

Hypocrite.

I asked you a question, pea brain. I’ll ask again.

When you say retarded do you mean more or less retarded than using an unintelligible document as an avatar for years on end?

 

[Mohawk Banditó]

Jesus christ.

Get help.

(That ain't even all of it, it kept going)

Maybe a mod can get you a special "White knight defender of Jon Jones honorary plaque ya fucking weirdo.

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The irony of accusing other people of sounding insecure in his 4th post out of his 10 comments in a row

 

[skylolow]

I don't know how much I'd read into that.

If Jones is doing any kind serious training in the last 2 months I'm not sure why he won't be preparing on some level for Tom. Plus if they are looking for International Fight week for this fight then he could start training the end of the month and still have solid 3 months to train 100% focused on Tom.

Honestly, is there anything Tom brings to the table that Jon hasn't dealt with, no. Tom isn't overly fast or crazy athletic with some very dynamic fighting style to prepare for. Tom reminds me of a HW Forrest, hard worker who has solid well rounded MMA game but not great at anything.

 

[mma fighter]

6 more months to take supplements.

 

[bigfootsbreath]

Islam instead just sits out until his contenders are forced to fight each other and then he suddenly announces he'll fight #7 on short notice for them after he's trained all this timefor that date.

Islam is a fraud too. Sure he might be the best at LW but defending against all these fws and underserving lws isn't a good look for him.

 

[Vehap1]

You guys cry about Jones supposedly ducking this guy and now that he accepts and wants an adequate amount of time to prepare, a 40 year old slow battle worn Jones is “stealing Tom Aspinalls prime”

You can’t make this shit up

Jones haters remain the most delusional mentally deranged group of weirdos in MMA I swear

Hater? I dont know about that, I just feel sorry for people like you who believe in every hype-train
"He never took turinabol" "He didnt make a career of fighting old midgets" He didnt lose vs Reyes"


What else do you believe in? Bitcoin is a scam? Covid-19 was real? haha

 

[Human Bass]

You guys cry about Jones supposedly ducking this guy and now that he accepts and wants an adequate amount of time to prepare, a 40 year old slow battle worn Jones is “stealing Tom Aspinalls prime”

You can’t make this shit up

Jones haters remain the most delusional mentally deranged group of weirdos in MMA I swear

With no weight cut, 3 months is more than enough.

 

[Vehap1]

Islam is a fraud too. Sure he might be the best at LW but defending against all these fws and underserving lws isn't a good look for him.

As long as he doesnt pop for underground steroids its fine...

Edit: I forgot steroids does nothing to the human body

 

[markg171]

As long as he doesnt pop for underground steroids its fine...

Edit: I forgot steroids does nothing to the human body

Islam has popped

 

[rjmbrd]

People hate Jones and this a very tough pill to swallow for them but Jon needs no one at this point. Not the ufc, not the money and definitely not Tom Aspinall, anyone who thinks Jon’s legacy hinges on Tom Aspinall is fucking retarded lol

Who cares about legacy? Nobody is arguing over that.

Jon fought once in 2024 and it was against a retired fighter coming off a KO loss.

People want the division to move forward. This is the tail wagging the dog. Defend or vacate.

 

[BjPenn2017]

Who cares about legacy? Nobody is arguing over that.

Jon fought once in 2024 and it was against a retired fighter coming off a KO loss.

People want the division to move forward. This is the tail wagging the dog. Defend or vacate.

Move forward to where? Tom Aspinall vs Shamil Gaziev? Maybe we get Aspinall vs Don Tale mayes?? The division is absolute shit, it has nowhere to go and it’s why they let Jon hold the belt

 

[jeff7b9]

Yep he ducked heavyweight until Francis left...then made the move not expecting Tom to be there. Now he doesn't want him either.

Basically he tried the GSP middleweight strategy but he got caught up being a coward whereas GSP managed to find the perfect timing to look less like a coward than Jon (very much is equally as coward though).

GSP didn't hold up the division (as champ)

He was also fairly honest about it. Publicly stated that he was at a point in his career where he just wanted big fights and Bispings "stock was very high" at that time so he felt it was the right opportunity.

He even said he wanted to fight Khabib for legacy and challenge but do it at 165 so no belts involved.
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If Jon wanted to fight in a "superfight" only every 2 years or so, and handpicked just whatever opponent he felt like

And VACATED the title... it would be fine.

But he wants to:

- role-play as champ

- AND not defend against the interim champ

- AND have everyone pretend that isnt retarded.



The CHAMP has a duty to fight the most qualified challenger.

That is very clearly Tom, the interim champ, who has cleaned out most of the top 10 already.

 

[MRT]

You guys cry about Jones supposedly ducking this guy and now that he accepts and wants an adequate amount of time to prepare, a 40 year old slow battle worn Jones is “stealing Tom Aspinalls prime”

You can’t make this shit up

Jones haters remain the most delusional mentally deranged group of weirdos in MMA I swear

Utterly ridiculous.

It is not like this fight is some big surprise out of nowhere. It was always going to be Aspinall or Alex.

Please don't tell me the supposed GOAT can't at least begin to prepare knowing he will be fcing one of those two fighters. If he is so unprepared for Aspinall at this point that he still needs six months from signing, maybe it is time for the UFC to move on from Jon Jones.

 

[HP_Nut]

There's a reason why this retard used non-title fights to try and boost Islam's pitiful title activity.

Hey man, why isn't Islam agreeing to fight any of his contenders? Use a 50 IQ basis starting point.

Are you stupid? Can’t read? I listed Islams fights since winning the belt, all of his title defenses were 4-8 months after, not once were any of them 1 yr. There’s nothing unusual about the length of time in between his defenses like you’re claiming. You tried to claim all he does is sit out 1 yr while ducking. Charles & Arman pulled out, how is that his fault. Please give me the long list of rightful title contenders he supposedly ducked? Which elite LW title challengers did he decline and refused to fight? There’s a long list right?

 

[rjmbrd]

Move forward to where? Tom Aspinall vs Shamil Gaziev? Maybe we get Aspinall vs Don Tale mayes?? The division is absolute shit, it has nowhere to go and it’s why they let Jon hold the belt

The heavyweight division is ALWAYS the shallowest. This isn't an opinion, you can verify it.

Division	Roster
155	84
135	81
145	76
170	73
185	66
125	44
205	35
265	31

The reason Brock Lesnar could win a world title with 2 fights is because the division is paper thin. The reason Brock lost the title is he was forced to fight Cain, who beat the shit out of him.

So now we have a suitably young, suitably talented "interim" world champion, wasting away his prime because the champion refuses to fight him.

Jon needs to defend or vacate, let everyone else get paid. The UFC enabled this nonsense, these guys make peanuts until they win a title. He's taking money out of Tom's pocket and everyone else in line.

 

[Mohawk Banditó]

People hate Jones and this a very tough pill to swallow for them but Jon needs no one at this point. Not the ufc, not the money and definitely not Tom Aspinall, anyone who thinks Jon’s legacy hinges on Tom Aspinall is fucking retarded lol

Here's the part big dumb idiots like you can't swallow. The narrative is NOT that Jon isn't allowed to retire until he fights Aspinall. No one is saying that. If Jon doesn't need Tom, that's fine, but then his next position is to vacate and fuck off. Either retire or take a fun another fun and meaningless fight.

But he said he wanted to fight Stipe and retire, then didn't do that. So he is the one responsible for opening the floodgates that Tom is a possible option. So if he does retire, then yes, he does have to deal with people saying that the fact the contender was Aspinall (and not someone like Gane again, or Derrick Lewis or something, who people will speculate he would have defended against) might draw those conclusions against him.

 

[BowserJr]

Man, all I can say is if they have Tom fight another interim and don't strip Jones instead, The UFC isn't even worth watching anymore. It will have conceded that it is only entertainment and is not in any way a sport where the best fight the best

IMO it's already there and pretty much undeniable. If what you just said transpires I don't see how any normal person even casuals could deny it unless they're absolutely brainwashed