Jon Jones suffered an injury in training that will keep him sidelined for eight months and now Sergei Pavlovich will clash with Tom Aspinall to crown an interim heavyweight champion in the new UFC 295 co-main event.
Jon Jones suffered an injury in training that will keep him sidelined for eight months and now Sergei Pavlovich will clash with Tom Aspinall to crown an interim heavyweight champion in the new UFC 295 co-main event.
I think they put the interim fight on because
a) they want another “title” fight to sell the PPV and
b) they might want to pressure Jones into hurrying up when he will come back.
Jones is not getting any younger, not to speak of Stipe.
And both seem perfectly willing to sit out until noone cares about them anymore.
I was already only looking forward to the fight for the slight chance that Stipe gets the upset, that chance gets slimmer every day.
And the UFC wants a “baddest man on the planet” to market.