“Free Money”: Tom Aspinall Touted to Beat Jon Jones in Potential Fight Draws Mixed Reactions

Kishore R | 30/07/2024
Tom Aspinall Looks Beyond Jon Jones: Announces the Fighter He’s Targeting Next

British heavyweight and current interim heavyweight title holder, Tom Aspinall punched his ticket for a colossal title unification bout against Jon Jones after he decimated former foe, Curtis Blaydes in 60 seconds at UFC 304. Now with this blitzkrieg of a performance, the fandom is even hailing the 31-year-old to be the one to beat the heavyweight champion, Jon Jones.

According to reports, if Jones vs Aspinall were to ever take place, ‘Bones’ would actuallly be the underdog, making the Brit the clear favorite.

In fact, according to online sportsbook BetOnline after his stellar performance at UFC 304, Tom is now a -150 favorite, poised to defeat Jones (+130). Now, that is something you don’t see often – Jones being the underdog.

Reacting to the new stats, fans poured in to drop their thoughts. Convinced of the Briton’s skills, fans jumped the post, hailing him as the best, deeming that a fight against Jones would be nothing but easy money for the 31-year-old.

“They’re giving out free money.”

“Tom Aspinall by anything he wants.”

“Free money, baby.”

Whereas others relayed the obvious, subtly hinting the odd maker’s trick while mentioning Aspinall’s capabilities.

“Don’t get me wrong I think Tom is great and He’d have a legit shot at winning but this is just odd makers looking for some juice while Tom is fresh on bettors minds.”

Another random fan keyed in with his thoughts, reminding the community of when Dominick Reyes nearly beat Jones and took his title back in 2020.

“Jon struggled to beat reyes, imagine what tom will do to him.” 

https://twitter.com/_celtics18/status/1818020060381749641

In addition to that this stat is pretty astonishing when you consider the fact that Aspinall was listed as a +170 underdog against Jones who was a -200 favorite in July of last year.

One year and three KOs later, Aspinall is at the top of the game with matchmakers touting him as the favorite against the ‘GOAT’ed superstar, Jon Jones.

In fact, the gutsy Englishman has proposed a new idea for Jones’ return bout in November, targeting light heavyweight, Alex Pereira.

Stipe vs Jones & Aspinall vs Alex in Aspinall’s heavyweight tournament?

While a title unification is still pending despite the Brit’s numerous callouts to champion, Jon Jones, the UFC seems to have other plans with ‘Bones.’

The promoters have booked him and Stipe Miocic for November for a massive legacy fight.

https://twitter.com/ChampRDS/status/1817451101865525520

Amidst this and ‘Poatan’ Pereira’s ambitions to jump the scales to heavyweight, Aspinall has suggested an idea of an one-night heavyweight tournament where the fans can judge who is the best heavyweight among him and Jones.

Snubbing the idea of him as a backup fighter for Jones vs Stipe, Aspinall said he could go against ‘Poatan’ and Jones could take on Stipe on the same evening.

Interesting, yes but Dana White isn’t known to be particularly that taken with the idea of a tournament.

 

 

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Alex Pereira Dominick Reyes Jon Jones Tom Aspinall

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Kishore R

Kishore is a MMA journalist at The SportsRush with over two years of experience and more than 2000 articles to his name. While he is a qualified engineer, he truly enjoys his time crafting stories from the world of mixed martial arts. Old testament in his MMA education, Kishore picked up the sport watching the highlights of 1989’s Fight of the Year bout between Roberto Duran and Iran Barkley and has since been hooked to the controlled violence this sport is capable of. Following MMA for almost a decade and a half, Kishore has an advanced understanding of its tactical nature and uses his love for storytelling to express it with great effect. But most of all, he just wants to see Tony Ferguson bounce back and showcase his old swagger - “IT’S TONY TIME!”

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