{"id":208629,"date":"2025-10-12T20:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T20:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/208629\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T20:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T20:39:08","slug":"aspinall-reveals-one-heavyweight-in-history-that-could-beat-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/208629\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspinall reveals one heavyweight in history that could beat him"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom Aspinall has said many times that he believes he can beat Jon Jones. Daniel Cormier in his prime? Maybe not.<\/p>\n

In a new interview on the ShxtsNGigs podcast, Aspinall was asked if there was a fighter in the history of his weight class who he felt could beat him. He didn\u2019t hesitate to drop former UFC champ champ<\/a> Daniel Cormier\u2019s name.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know DC, Daniel Cormier?\u201d Aspinall asked. \u201cYeah, peak DC has the worst style for me ever.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s short, I\u2019ve said this to his face as well, short guy who just keeps walking forward, changing levels in between grappling punches,\u201d Aspinall continued. \u201cHe can knock you out. He can take you down. He\u2019s got cardio for days. For my style, he\u2019s a nightmare.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked how he came up with that answer so quick, Aspinall admitted it was something he\u2019d considered before.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought about it. He was a beast. DC was unreal,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Cormier is another fighter who doesn\u2019t get the recognition he deserves from more recent fans of the sport, possibly because he ended his career off two bad losses to Stipe Miocic. But Cormier before he started having issues with his back<\/a> was a sight to behold.<\/p>\n

He won the Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix with ease, and then cut through everyone not named Jon Jones during his peak in the UFC. He had the wrestling, he had the striking, and he had the submission defense to make him a tall task for anyone to face.<\/p>\n

Props to Tom Aspinall for giving him his flowers, because MMA fans should never forget what a bad man \u201cDC\u201d was a decade ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Aspinall has said many times that he believes he can beat Jon Jones. Daniel Cormier in his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-208629","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}