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Tom aspinall doesnt move like a ww I'm so sick of people regurgitating marketing....100% agree. Truly big and athletic guys at HW are literally by default top 10 these days. And then you get an outlier like Aspinall who's naturally big enough to be a HW (if he REALLY wanted to be super lean he could probably cut to like 220...but no point since he's not making LHW anyway) but moves like a WW and still has HW power. No wonder nobody makes it out of rd 1, he's a unicorn in a division of mostly donkeys.
Almeida is probably the best example. He could definitely make 205 but he's figured out he's big enough to still use his superior grappling to toss around fatties and get wins at HW easily enough so why bother cutting?
He moves like a quick Heavyweight... he's slower than prime Cain handspeed and footwork wise... he's probably about the same speed as Stipe when he was champ and beat Francis....
Tom is a good fighter but he's not even the best HW we have seen let alone a damn unicorn