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Paddy Pimblett finds it hard to bet against UFC heavyweight champion Jon Jones.
The next time Jones (28-1 MMA, 22-1 UFC) steps into the octagon, it's expected to be against interim champion Tom Aspinall (15-3 MMA, 8-1 UFC) in a title-unification bout. If the fight does materialize, Pimblett is surprisingly going against his fellow Brit.
"I can't pick. I love Aspinall, lad. He's my mate and that. But I can just never pick against Jon Jones – because we've never seen him get beat," Pimblett said in a recent interview in Liverpool. "I think now if anyone's going to beat him it is Aspinall. Aspinall could just knock him out and come out with his hands and knock him clean out. I just never picked against Jon Jones. I've been watching Jon Jones since he became champ when I was kid.
"Since I started watching the UFC in like 2009-2010, I've been watching Jon Jones ever since then, before he won the belt. I can remember watching the fight live when he got disqualified for the 12-to-6 elbows. That's how long I've been watching Jon Jones, and it's just the way he game plans. He finds a way to beat someone, and he works on that exact thing and how to beat them, but if anyone's going to beat him, it's Aspinall."
Jones is unbeaten in his professional MMA career outside of a disqualification blemish to Matt Hamill in 2010 – a fight he was dominating. Since capturing the vacant UFC heavyweight title with a quick submission of Ciryl Gane, Jones retained his belt with a third-round TKO of Stipe Miocic at UFC 309 this past November.
This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: Paddy Pimblett can't pick against Jon Jones' in Tom Aspinall UFC fight
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The next time Jones (28-1 MMA, 22-1 UFC) steps into the octagon, it's expected to be against interim champion Tom Aspinall (15-3 MMA, 8-1 UFC) in a title-unification bout. If the fight does materialize, Pimblett is surprisingly going against his fellow Brit.
"I can't pick. I love Aspinall, lad. He's my mate and that. But I can just never pick against Jon Jones – because we've never seen him get beat," Pimblett said in a recent interview in Liverpool. "I think now if anyone's going to beat him it is Aspinall. Aspinall could just knock him out and come out with his hands and knock him clean out. I just never picked against Jon Jones. I've been watching Jon Jones since he became champ when I was kid.
"Since I started watching the UFC in like 2009-2010, I've been watching Jon Jones ever since then, before he won the belt. I can remember watching the fight live when he got disqualified for the 12-to-6 elbows. That's how long I've been watching Jon Jones, and it's just the way he game plans. He finds a way to beat someone, and he works on that exact thing and how to beat them, but if anyone's going to beat him, it's Aspinall."
Jones is unbeaten in his professional MMA career outside of a disqualification blemish to Matt Hamill in 2010 – a fight he was dominating. Since capturing the vacant UFC heavyweight title with a quick submission of Ciryl Gane, Jones retained his belt with a third-round TKO of Stipe Miocic at UFC 309 this past November.
This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: Paddy Pimblett can't pick against Jon Jones' in Tom Aspinall UFC fight
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