Perfectly placed to call out Jones here because at 38 and past his prime he gave 30 year old Jones a shot despite the obvious threat he posed, and lost to him. Jones is 37, soon to be 38, and Aspinall is 32, so the situations are very comparable in terms of age.
Feels like all this ducking is likely to be more harmful to his legacy than taking an L, if he doesn’t end up fighting him.
If he did lose to Aspinall it wouldn’t harm his legacy, he cpuld reasonably point to Aspinall being much younger and a big, fast guy. There’s no shame in that. But instead hes talking all sorts of nonsense on twitter, even mentioning Ngannou, only for Ngannou to basically tell him to fight Aspinall first lol.
I feel like these last few years will really have tarnished his legacy. Despite his obvious outrageous talent and probably being the greatest combat sport athlete ever - the drugs, inactivity and such will really harm him in the short term.
Well he had two total fights at HW. Whereas his LHW legacy is one of running through 3 generations of fighters, going unbeaten, youngest ever champion. That’s his actual weight class.
Maybe in the short term it’ll look bad but long-term his legacy is right up there with the best and imo he is the greatest of all time.
Well, it is true that he had 1 title defence at heavy weight but what’s the point of pointing out his ‘heavyweight legacy’ when he only fought there twice?