Tom Aspinall describes his first experience watching baseball at Yankee Stadium
The interim UFC heavyweight champion’s gaze is a laser aimed directly at Curtis Blaydes, the man Aspinall faced two years ago for all of 15 seconds before blowing out his knee without combat contact.
It’ll be Saturday night in the United States, but locally Aspinall and Blaydes won’t be hitting the cage until well past 4 a.m., with the pay-per-view event scheduled for a 10 p.m. Eastern start.Nonetheless, it’s a second chance for Aspinall to show the world he is better than Blaydes — and vice versa, given the nature of the official victory that went the way of this weekend’s challenger.
Blaydes isn’t quite the unstoppable force in that regard, but Aspinall has been a touch closer to the immovable object. That’s in contrast to Blaydes, who frequently ground down opponents to either finish them with strikes in the grappling phase or outpoint them, in one case earning the judges’ nod in a five-rounder — though he faded over the final two frames of that win over Alexander Volkov.“I’m sure I’ll be fine, but I’ve not been there yet,” he says, “so, we’ll see.
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