Quote from: tokeweed on November 21, 2023, 12:21:25 PM

Yup, there are still a lot of question marks on Aspinall as we've not seen much of him in the cage cos he's finished all his opponents in less that three rounds or so. Kindly check if I'm wrong but on the top of my head, I don't remember anybody really testing him. He got a bit tired vs Arlovski but then finished him early at R2 with a rear naked choke.

Early finishes usually means suspect cardio at later rounds. :/

But then again all those early finishes could mean that those opponents were not in his level. So dunno...

From what I have seen because of Tom Aspinall's speed he likely getting his opponent a faster finish so he is that good of a fighter, and what I want to see is a Tom Aspinall VS Cyril Gane fight I am curious to see this fight but for sure because of Tom Aspinall's wrestling which is still the weakness of Cyril Gane then for me Tom Aspinall will likely win that fight, he might be even great than Jon Jones, there will be a lot of people that might disagree with me that Tom Aspinall could be great than Jon Jones, he could likely finish Jones for sure Aspinall has an unusual speed even with that kind of injury from his fight against Curtis Blaydes he still has that unusual speed that is not normal with the Heavyweight division, but for sure Ciryl Gane and Jon Jones can match that speed of his,

Quote from: TopTort777 on November 21, 2023, 12:46:52 PM

Exactly. If we ask some random UFC fan who has Aspinall beaten, he would hardly name any 3 fighters, and they probably won be from top5 heavyweights. But that is also a curse of current heavyweight division in general. Everyone knows Jones and Ngannou and connect them with UFC heavyweights. But Ngannou is no longer in UFC and Jones is not much of a fighter (more like a troublemaker). Who else we have? Miocic is old. Pavlovich recently lost to Aspinall. For majority, everyone else are decent, good, average. Or lets say victory over them wont impress much.

This means the heavyweight is not that exciting, unlike with the lower division most fighters are well-rounded mostly pure wrestling will beat pure striker, but a well-rounded can be very exciting to watch, In most divisions we will witness fights that go the distance while in the heavyweight 1 punch is what a fighter needs to knockout or defeat his opponent, but for sure the UFC will be giving us a fight that will surely excites us to watch the heavyweight division again I think they have put Jon Jones in this division for the Division to be more exciting, and now that Aspinall is here I think that fight will be an awesome one,

Quote from: tokeweed on Today at 12:34:55 PM

^ Yup! I've been looking into that a fews hours ago too. Pantoja is in the co main event to defend his 125 belt vs Royval. I like both these guys so it should be a fun one. Luque vs Ian Garry will def be a banger. I think it's gonna be one of those matches that will throw Garry off of his game because Luque could make it dirty. Josh Emmet vs Chikadze could be a good one. Menefield vs Jacoby is decent. Ulanbekov vs Durden is low level but could be entertaining. Randy Brown vs Salikhov is the first match of the prelims? Massive disrespect imho, it should be way higher in the roster.

Date: Saturday, December 2
Main Card (PPV): 6:00pm EST
Preliminary Card (ESPN/ESPN+): 4:00pm EST
Venue: Moody Center, Austin, Texas

Main Card (PPV)
Beneil Dariush vs Arman Tsarukyan
Jalin Turner vs Bobby Green
Rob Font vs Deiveson Figueiredo
Sean Brady vs Kelvin Gastelum
Punahele Soriano vs Dustin Stoltzfus
Khalil Rountree Jr. vs Azamat Murzakanov

Preliminary Card (ESPN/ESPN+)
Clay Guida vs Joaquim Silva
Miesha Tate vs Julia Avila
Zach Reese vs Cody Brundage
Drakkar Klose vs Joe Solecki
Steve Garcia vs Melquizael Costa
Rodolfo Bellato vs Ihor Potieria
Wellington Turman vs Jared Gooden
Veronica Hardy vs Jamey-Lyn Horth

^ Damn... Dan Hooker pulled out. Jalin Turner is replacing him. ;/

Whoa! I thought that they changed the Co-Main Event with Rob Font vs Deiveson Figueiredo but Bobby Green is just eager to fight as now he will have Jalin Turner as his opponent, for sure if Bobby Green lost to this one that will be a big upset for sure Jalin Turner will only have 1 week to prepare against Bobby Green that will be a hard fight as Green is a very unpredictable fighter,