Firas Zahabi had very high praise for UFC interim heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall. Aspinall (15-3 MMA, 8-1 UFC) is campaigning for a title-unification bout with heavyweight champ Jon Jones (28-1 MMA, 22-1 UFC), but Tristar Gym head coach Zahabi doubts it happens.

Of Tom Aspinall's three professional defeats, only one can be counted as entirely legitimate. The British heavyweight phenom suffered a knee injury TKO against

With Jones very much in the Aspinall clan's crosshairs, the acclaimed coach of the UFC interim heavyweight champion gave an appraisal of Jones' display against Miocic at 37 years old.

Brandon Gibson is confident in how Jon Jones matches up against Tom Aspinall. Gibson, UFC heavyweight champion Jones' (27-1 MMA, 21-1 UFC) striking coach, has no doubt that his star student has the tools to beat interim champ Aspinall (15-3 MMA,

Firas Zahabi, longtime coach of UFC Hall of Famer Georges St-Pierre, believes Tom Aspinall has surpassed Stipe Miocic as the greatest UFC heavyweight of all time.

Jon Jones vs. Tom Aspinall is one of, if not the biggest fight the UFC can make in 2025. The consensus among fans is that Aspinall is unparalleled for speed, knockout power, and finishing instinct inside the UFC's heavyweight division.

Firas Zahabi predicts Tom Aspinall will hand Jon Jones his first loss, making for an exciting heavyweight showdown in the future.

It remains unclear if Jones and Aspinall will ever fight, even though one is the UFC's heavyweight champion and another is the interim title holder, which usually is a situation t