Jon Jones Comes Face To Face With Tom Aspinall, Quickly Takes Hand Off Shoulder In Tense Meeting

Coming face-to-face with interim heavyweight champion, Tom Aspinall for the primary time amid continued hyperlinks to a future title unification battle, fellow titleholder, Jon Jones shared a tense assembly and a few phrases with the British favourite, earlier than briskly taking Aspinall’s hand off his shoulder.

Jones, a former two-time mild heavyweight champion and present heavyweight gold holder, has been sidelined since he landed vacant division spoils again in March of final 12 months atop UFC 285, submitting Ciryl Gane with a surprising first spherical guillotine choke submission win.

And as for Atherton native, Apsinall, the surging contender landed the interim heavyweight title again in November at Madison Sq. Backyard, stopping the streak of Russian knockout artist, Sergei Pavlovich with a blistering first round KO win of his own.

Scheduled to headline that card in New York, Rochester native, Jones was compelled from a long-anticipated title battle with former champion, Stipe Miocic after he suffered a pectoral tendon tear forward of the conflict.

Anticipated to battle Ohio veteran, Miocic in his return later this annum, Jones has additionally been linked with a future title unification bout with the interim champion, Aspinall, who has made his thoughts on a pairing with the ex-pound-for-pound number one greater than frequent data. 

Jon Jones comes face-to-face with Tom Aspinall

And coming face-to-face with Aspinall throughout an impromptu assembly as we speak, Jones shared some phrases with the British heavyweight – before knocking back the former’s attempt to put his hand on his own shoulder, briskly eradicating it throughout what must be mentioned was a tense coming collectively.