Tom Aspinall: ‘I am fighting on UFC Manchester’

Tom Aspinall is going to get some additional operate in while he waits on the logjam atop the UFC heavyweight department to clear.

The Briton, who late in 2015 declared the organisation’s interim heavyweight crown with a first-round surface of Sergei Pavlovich, has actually been singing in his pursuit of Jon Jones, the male who holds the department’s main belt. Jones, who was planned to battle Stipe Miocic last year, stays on the sidelines after sustaining a pectoral injury that sidelined him for a number of month, has actually stayed dedicated to satisfying the Miocic scheduling– requiring Aspinall to look in other places for his next journey to the cage.

And it appears that it is set.

Speaking on social networks, Aspinall stated: “I had a conference with the UFC. It has actually now been validated that I am combating on UFC Manchester, so I’m back home getting ready for that now.”

UFC employer Dana White has actually formerly specified that the UFC will likely go back to the UK in the coming months for a numbered pay-per-view card which might include Aspinall in addition to ruling welterweight champ Leon Edwards. It has actually been reported that the promo is targeting a late July date.

Aspinall included: “I’ve begun the early phases of training school. I’m simply waiting on my challenger to accept. Remain tuned, keep up with the socials, and keep up with the YouTube channel. I’ll be revealing it soon.”

It has actually been hypothesized that Curtis Blaydes, whom Aspinall sustained a knee injury versus nearly 2 years earlier in the opening seconds of a previous conference in a UFC card in London, is his probably challenger. Because that battle, Blaydes was beat by Sergei Pavlovich and more just recently last month scored a knockout win versus the harmful Brazilian Jailton Almeida.