Jon Jones says Tom Aspinall has just one trick in his arsenal

Jon Jones, erstwhile UFC airy heavyweight and heavyweight champion, was not impressed with Tom Aspinall's performance. In precocious October, Jones watched arsenic the heavyweight loop that erstwhile belonged to him was connected the enactment astatine UFC 321 successful Abu Dhabi.

His successor, Tom Aspinall, defended his rubric against Cyril Gane successful the main lawsuit of the night, hoping to corroborate his presumption arsenic the full-fledged king of the division. But the combat ended without a victor aft the French challenger deed the champion with a heavy digit jab successful the eye, leaving the Brit incapable to continue. Although the combat didn't past a azygous round, Jones felt helium had seen capable to springiness his appraisal of his opponent's abilities.

A one-dimensional fighter

On the No Scripts podcast, the erstwhile airy heavyweight and heavyweight champion described Aspinall arsenic a one-dimensional combatant whose skills, successful his opinion, are overrated. 

"Tom is simply a large athlete, but I deliberation he's a combatant who lone has 1 instrumentality up his sleeve," Jones said.

"I judge his wrestling and jiu-jitsu are incredibly overrated. He has a bully 1-2 combo, and that's astir it," the erstwhile champion added. Jones besides noted that Aspinall was incapable to earnestly endanger Ciryl Gane: "He couldn't adjacent interaction Ciryl. That's however I saw it. I deliberation Gane was conscionable warming up. He was touching him, helium was wholly relaxed."

Jones' appraisal raises the question of however acceptable Aspinall is for the heavyweight challenge. The erstwhile champion believes that though the Briton has diversion qualities and abilities, his combat astatine cardinal moments shows limitations that whitethorn not yet beryllium disposable to the wide public.

However, Aspinall remains a promising combatant with large potential. His technique, velocity and powerfulness marque him a menace successful the division, but according to Jones, determination is inactive a batch of enactment to beryllium done to found his presumption arsenic a existent heavyweight leader.

In the upcoming fights, it volition beryllium absorbing to spot however Aspinall volition respond to the criticism, but besides however overmuch helium volition amended his arsenal to beryllium that helium is not a elemental combatant with 1 instrumentality up his sleeve.