Interim UFC heavyweight titleholder Tom Aspinall basked in Dana White’s pivot on the UFC’s pound-for-pound debate.
Tom Aspinall is in active negotiations to face UFC heavyweight champion Jon Jones in a title unification bout later this year. While nothing is official as of this writing, both sides are optimistic a deal will be finalized in the coming weeks.
In the meantime, Aspinall remains behind Jones and others in the UFC’s pound-for-pound rankings. Jones, who is arguably the greatest UFC fighter of all time, has been UFC CEO Dana White‘s repeated pick for the deserving pound-for-pound No. 1 spot.
White previously attacked anyone with a differing opinion on the pound-for-pound rankings, specifically those who placed