Tom Aspinall's Record

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For someone who has dedicated his entire life to MMA, started training at 7 with Dad and intent of becoming a fighter from very early on - he doesn't have a whole lot of fights for being 31.
14-3 Pro Record with with 6 ammy fights
First am fight in 2010 and then a 3 year layover before next fight. Turned pro in 2014, fought regularly until 2016 and then another 3 year layover. Last fight in CW in 2019 and then another year layover before UFC debut. And he only had 2 fights in CW. He's had 8 fights in UFC in 3 1/2 years with a year off for knee injury, so he's kept busy since getting to UFC. It just feels like he has too few fights for being a fighter his entire life and this stage of career.
He's gotten decent experience in his UFC run, but very little overall time in the cage. Do you think his overall lack of experience will play a factor in his next, most difficult fights?
 
dcthegod said:
For someone who has dedicated his entire life to MMA, started training at 7 with Dad and intent of becoming a fighter from very early on - he doesn't have a whole lot of fights for being 31.
14-3 Pro Record with with 6 ammy fights
First am fight in 2010 and then a 3 year layover before next fight. Turned pro in 2014, fought regularly until 2016 and then another 3 year layover. Last fight in CW in 2019 and then another year layover before UFC debut. And he only had 2 fights in CW. He's had 8 fights in UFC in 3 1/2 years with a year off for knee injury, so he's kept busy since getting to UFC. It just feels like he has too few fights for being a fighter his entire life and this stage of career.
He's gotten decent experience in his UFC run, but very little overall time in the cage. Do you think his overall lack of experience will play a factor in his next, most difficult fights?
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He's fought quality opponents that provided better experience for Tom than some low level random MMA guys that fighters would usually fight at the beginning of their careers.

Also BJ Penn only had 8 fights before he beat Hughes for the WW title. GSP was 13-1 when he won the WW title. Francis was 15-2 when he won the HW title at 35 years old
 
He took a few years out and went into boxing because he was having a hard time finding opponents. He was too good from early on and nobody on smaller shows wanted to fight him, that's why he signed with Cage Warriors and then the UFC not long after when he wanted to take a longer road.

He didn't last long in boxing because he didn't like the politics and things like having to pay your opponent to fight you.

Also his record should be 15-2. His only real loss is to Stuart Austin, who he beat the shit out of but was caught in a heel hook, back when he was 22.

His other losses are by injury to Blaydes, which goes on the record but shouldn't really be seen by fans as a defeat in the sense that Blaydes didn't beat him. His other loss was a DQ due to 12-6 elbows. What is interesting about this fight is that Tom says the elbow wasn't 12-6 and was perfectly legal, the ref made a mistake. And when he complained to the organisation they "lost" the footage of the fight.
 
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OldBoy91 said:
He took a few years out and went into boxing because he was having a hard time finding opponents. He was too good from early on and nobody on smaller shows wanted to fight him, that's why he signed with Cage Warriors and then the UFC not long after when he wanted to take a longer road.

He didn't last long in boxing because he didn't like the politics and things like having to pay your opponent to fight you.

Also his record should be 15-2. His only real loss is to Stuart Austin, who he beat the shit out of but was caught in a heel hook when he was 22.

Hos other losses are by injury to Blaydes, which goes on the record but shouldn't really be seen by fans as a defeat in the sense that Blaydes didn't beat him. His other loss was a DQ due to 12-6 elbows. What is interesting about this fight is that Tom says the elbow wasn't 12-6 and was perfectly legal, the ref made a mistake. And when he complained to the organisation they "lost" the footage of the fight.
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great post man. Due diligence done!

There's some kind of weird symmetry with that DQ loss, to that of Jon. Wild that the footage was 'lost'.
 
dcthegod said:
For someone who has dedicated his entire life to MMA, started training at 7 with Dad and intent of becoming a fighter from very early on - he doesn't have a whole lot of fights for being 31.
14-3 Pro Record with with 6 ammy fights
First am fight in 2010 and then a 3 year layover before next fight. Turned pro in 2014, fought regularly until 2016 and then another 3 year layover. Last fight in CW in 2019 and then another year layover before UFC debut. And he only had 2 fights in CW. He's had 8 fights in UFC in 3 1/2 years with a year off for knee injury, so he's kept busy since getting to UFC. It just feels like he has too few fights for being a fighter his entire life and this stage of career.
He's gotten decent experience in his UFC run, but very little overall time in the cage. Do you think his overall lack of experience will play a factor in his next, most difficult fights?
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Tom has 23 fights (17 Pro + 6 Ammy) at age 31.
Stipe has 24 fights at age 41. He had his 11th fight just before his 31st birthday.
Jon has 29 fights at age 36. By age 31 he had 24 fights. Also Tom has 17 Pro HW fights and Jon has 1. Pretty sure Tom's experience isn't going to be an issue.
 
Have a weird feeling that Aspinall vs DC is going to mail event 300. DC said he knows who the main is. Also pulled from the booth this week. Not to mention potentially sets up that Jones fight at heavyweight. Aspinall wins and they created a main stream star
 
OldBoy91 said:
He took a few years out and went into boxing because he was having a hard time finding opponents. He was too good from early on and nobody on smaller shows wanted to fight him, that's why he signed with Cage Warriors and then the UFC not long after when he wanted to take a longer road.

He didn't last long in boxing because he didn't like the politics and things like having to pay your opponent to fight you.

Also his record should be 15-2. His only real loss is to Stuart Austin, who he beat the shit out of but was caught in a heel hook, back when he was 22.

His other losses are by injury to Blaydes, which goes on the record but shouldn't really be seen by fans as a defeat in the sense that Blaydes didn't beat him. His other loss was a DQ due to 12-6 elbows. What is interesting about this fight is that Tom says the elbow wasn't 12-6 and was perfectly legal, the ref made a mistake. And when he complained to the organisation they "lost" the footage of the fight.
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Intelligent post as always you big beautiful bastad lol.
 
USMC19 said:
Have a weird feeling that Aspinall vs DC is going to mail event 300. DC said he knows who the main is. Also pulled from the booth this week. Not to mention potentially sets up that Jones fight at heavyweight. Aspinall wins and they created a main stream star
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DC hasn't fought in almost 4 years, has chubbed up quite a bit, and often looks like he's struggling to walk, like someone with bad back problems.

Terrible idea.
 
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