{"id":293548,"date":"2023-11-09T09:26:07","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T09:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/?p=293548"},"modified":"2023-11-09T09:26:07","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T09:26:07","slug":"tom-aspinall-sets-sights-on-jon-jones-showdown-if-he-beats-pavlovich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/mma\/tom-aspinall-sets-sights-on-jon-jones-showdown-if-he-beats-pavlovich\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Aspinall sets sights on Jon Jones showdown if he beats Pavlovich"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Tom Aspinall sets sights on Jon Jones showdown if he beats Sergei Pavlovich for interim title at UFC 295, as he warns that Russian &#8216;has never fought someone who moves like me&#8217;<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tom Aspinall is preparing to fight Sergei Pavlovich at UFC 295 on Saturday\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>British star is targeting a clash with Jon Jones when American returns<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Tyson Fury vs Oleksandr Usyk fight details out THIS WEEK: Listen to The Hook<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>British UFC star Tom Aspinall still has his sights set on Jon Jones despite the American&#8217;s injury, as he prepares to fight Sergei Pavlovich at UFC 295.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Victory would see him hold the interim title and effectively put himself in line to face the winner of Jones vs Miocic, which may not happen for up to a year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;m just fine with the interim,&#8217; Aspinall said during UFC 295 media day. &#8216;I&#8217;m not too bothered about it. It will all work itself out, I&#8217;m sure. Jon Jones is obviously one of the best to ever do it. I would love to share the octagon with him one day. I&#8217;ve got a lot of respect for him. Absolutely love his game. Massive fan of his.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;As far as if it&#8217;s for the interim title or the vacant title, it doesn&#8217;t really bother me too much.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;d love to fight Jon Jones,&#8217; Aspinall said. &#8216;I&#8217;ve said that all along. It&#8217;s not disrespect to Jon Jones. I couldn&#8217;t respect him more for what he&#8217;s done in the sport. I&#8217;d like to fight Jon Jones after this for sure.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/09\/07\/77594431-12728815-image-a-6_1699515441365.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Tom Aspinall takes on Sergei Pavlovich in UFC 295&#8217;s co-main event on Saturday<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/09\/07\/77506841-12728815-image-a-2_1699515191010.jpg\" height=\"636\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/09\/07\/77594261-12728815-image-a-4_1699515222034.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Jon Jones&#8217; injury ruled him out of the contest with Stipe Miocic and the fight was binned<\/p>\n<p>Aspinall and Pavlovich are the next generation of heavyweights and both possess elite speed and striking.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pavlovich has won his last six fights by first-round knockouts, making him the most feared man on the UFC roster.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Aspinall took the fight on two-and-a-half weeks notice and says doing so shows how confident he is in both body and mind.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Me pre-injury would have never took a fight like this,&#8217; Aspinall explained. &#8216;Absolutely never. I think that just says where I&#8217;m at mentally. I would have never, ever done this before I injured my knee. Because I was struggling with a bad knee for a long time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I train with heavyweights like everyday. Every single day for 18 months now so I know exactly where my body&#8217;s at.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Before, I guess I was kind of guessing where my body was at a lot because I wasn&#8217;t training with heavyweights regular and now I train with heavyweights everyday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I know I&#8217;ve got the size and the strength and all the other stuff, the physical attributes to fight and I know when I&#8217;m ready to fight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Obviously, I wouldn&#8217;t have took this fight if I didn&#8217;t think I was close to being ready. I&#8217;m much more confident now moving forward.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>So where can Aspinall find space to exploit Pavlovich&#8217;s shortcomings? For the Wigan native, he has to focus on himself given the fact that the Russian has hardly shown a chink in his armour.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/09\/07\/77501915-12728815-Pavlovich_is_a_young_hungry_contender_and_competes_with_Aspinall-a-3_1699515196658.jpg\" height=\"425\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Pavlovich is a young, hungry contender and competes with Aspinall for interim gold<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/09\/07\/77507085-12728815-Tom_Aspinall_right_seen_here_beating_Marcin_Tybura_faces_Sergei_-a-5_1699515246692.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Aspinall (right), seen here beating Marcin Tybura, could be the third Brit to win a UFC belt<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I basically can&#8217;t find a weakness [in Sergei Pavlovich],&#8217; Aspinall said. &#8216;I don&#8217;t think anyone can look at his fights and be like ,&#8221;this is where he&#8217;s good and this is where he&#8217;s bad&#8221;, because he&#8217;s not really shown much bad at this point. I&#8217;ve just got to do my thing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The biggest advantage that I&#8217;ve got is he&#8217;s fought no one who moves anything like me because there&#8217;s not a guy in the heavyweight division who moves like me.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;So you can&#8217;t prepare for me. It&#8217;s really difficult for my training partners, who train with me everyday, to be able to figure out what I&#8217;m doing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Guys who have never experienced anything like my movement, that&#8217;s my biggest advantage that I&#8217;ve got.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2023\/10\/25\/The%20Hook_Promo_Desktop.636.png\"><br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/mma\/article-12728815\/Tom-Aspinall-sets-sights-Jon-Jones-showdown-beats-Sergei-Pavlovich-interim-title-UFC-295-warns-Russian-never-fought-moves-like-me.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Aspinall sets sights on Jon Jones showdown if he beats Sergei Pavlovich for interim title at UFC 295, as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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