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Jon Jones has deed backmost astatine claims that helium is ducking a monolithic combat with heavyweight rival Tom Aspinall.
The American is yet to hold presumption connected a mega-fight against the British star, contempt it being the natural, astir evident and important contention of the twelvemonth - should it instrumentality place.
Aspinall has spoken of his patience moving retired and insisted helium volition soon determination connected from pushing to look the antheral galore respect arsenic MMA's greatest.
In appearing connected a unrecorded watercourse connected Instagram, seemingly portion riding oregon connected the backmost of a motorbike, Jones responded to comments successful the chat repeating the enactment that helium is ducking Aspinall.
One remark read: 'Doing everything but warring Tom,' portion different asked, 'why did you disappear?'
Jones retorted: 'I’ve got radical successful the chat calling maine a duck.
🚨 Jon Jones responds connected IG unrecorded to everyone who says helium is ducking Tom Aspinall:
“I’ve got radical successful the chat calling maine a duck. Meanwhile, I’m surviving my implicit champion life”
“I don’t cognize if it’s considered ducking erstwhile you’re surviving good. I don’t deliberation it works similar that.” pic.twitter.com/AFpcyqL48d
Jon Jones has responded to claims helium is ducking a combat against Tom Aspinall
The British UFC prima is hopeless to upgrade his interim rubric by beating the American
'Meanwhile, I’m surviving my implicit champion life” “I don’t cognize if it’s considered ducking erstwhile you’re surviving good. I don’t deliberation it works similar that.'
It seems arsenic though Jones, 37, has nary volition of facing Aspinall successful the combat each fans privation to see.
No uncertainty helium volition proceed to beryllium criticised by fans who consciousness helium is trying to support his bequest alternatively than hazard losing to the adjacent generation's heavyweight superstar.
Earlier, Aspinall had opened up connected the concern and theorised astir wherefore Jones mightiness beryllium avoiding him.
Aspinall told the High Performance Podcast: 'Me, personally, I can’t bash anything.
'I conscionable deliberation it’s down to wealth connected his side. I volition combat whenever — whenever, wherever helium wants — but it’s down to wealth I think.
'I conscionable deliberation that astatine this signifier successful his career, he’s had an astonishing career, I conscionable deliberation that... he’s similar 37, 38 years old, but not lone that, he’s got a cardinal miles connected the clock.
'So he’s got a batch of harm connected the body, he’s [taken] a batch of shots to the head. And that’s not maine saying thing negative. That’s the world of it, and I’m definite Jon Jones is alert of that.
Aspinall believes the clasp up could beryllium implicit wage oregon Jones' reluctance to enactment himself successful danger
On positing that the hold-up is betwixt Jones and the UFC implicit wage negotiations, the 32-year-old added: 'When you enactment him successful determination with, and I’m not trying to stroke my ain trumpet, but I’m virtually the astir unsafe feline successful the UFC if you look astatine the stats.
'When you enactment him successful with a feline of my size who has them credentials astatine this signifier successful his career, I deliberation Jon’s a astute feline and realizes that, truthful helium wants to beryllium compensated financially for it.'
'I’m good bored of [the Jones conversation]. I’ve had enough. We either request to fight, oregon I request to determination connected to thing else.'
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