Tom Aspinall: The UFC Doesn't Want You To Know This! Jon Jones Wasn't Living Like An Athlete!

I'm the number one heavyweight in the world right now, and I'm scared to fight everybody. What about John Jones? I'd be an idiot otherwise. But now that I understand fear and what it does for me, it just fuels me so much in a way that nothing else can. So I'll be prepared to do whatever I need to do. But I just don't like what he's doing because I can't function knowing that I trained for a fight and didn't actually fight somebody. John Jones is officially retired. Tom Aspinall is the heavyweight champion of the UFC. Did you see this coming?

And do you have any idea when you'll be back in the octagon? I do, yeah, yeah. Um, you're the only ever British heavyweight champion of the UFC. So what advice can you give young men that are struggling to find that sense of purpose? It takes years to become an overnight success. I've been going since I was eight years old and I've been up against so many tests from career ending injuries to financial struggles to mental struggles, and at one point we had three kids at the age of twenty five, and I had no money. I mean my first profile at 200 quid. I felt the pressure trying to be a young guy but having all this responsibility on me. Having to borrow money from friends to find out piece for my kids so I could keep living on this dream. But Outlasting people and consistency is massively underrated. And in today's day and age, people just have a lot of options, but that obsessiveness of being 100% focused on something, you win. Tom, there's this black box in front of me, which contains something which represents a pivotal moment in your career. What is the story behind this?

It was the most devastating thing that happened in my whole career. So ahead of showing you that interview which we recorded a while ago, I wanted to call Tom and get his first reaction to the news that he's now the UFC's undisputed heavyweight champion of the world. So what I'm about to show you is a conversation I had with Tom Hours after the news was announced that he's now the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world. And then I'm gonna play the long form interview that me and Tom had several weeks ago, right here in the studio. Enjoy. Quick one before we get back to this episode. Just give me thirty seconds of your time.

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