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UFC heavyweight champ Tom Aspinall has a knack for finishing opponents quickly. | 📷: UFC/Getty
Tom Aspinall loves the fact that there is very little tape on him.
Aspinall (15-3) is scheduled to defend his heavyweight title against Ciryl Gane (13-2) in the main event at UFC 321 on Oct. 25 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Aspinall has finished all 15 of his career wins thus far, going past the first round only once. Heading into his 10th Octagon appearance, Aspinall has a fight time of hardly over 25 minutes combined.
Aspinall believes the lack of footage on him is one of his biggest advantages. “Honey Badger” says people have seen only a minimal percentage of his entire skillset thus far. On the contrary, fighters with lengthy fights give away a lot of reads for future opponents.
“If I can go through my career and nobody seeing anything, that’s ideal for me because each long fight the opponent gets to see more and more,” Aspinall told RMC Sport Combat. “This is my 10th UFC fight, but the percentage that people have seen is only 10–20% of what I can actually do. That’s one of the biggest advantages I’ve got, that nobody knows what I can do.”
Aspinall won the interim title against Sergei Pavlovich and defended it against Curtis Blaydes. Aspinall was finally promoted to undisputed champion earlier this year when Jon Jones retired after nearly a year of ducking him. Meanwhile, Gane has finished 9 of his 13 career wins.
This article first appeared at Recent News on Sherdog.com
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