Tom Aspinall Reveals UFC Gave Him Multiple Dates for Jon Jones Fight

Tom Aspinall says he's made significant improvements since his last Octagon appearance. | Getty/UFCTom Aspinall spent much of the past year waiting for a heavyweight title unification bout against Jon Jones, but as it turns out, waiting isn’t exactly the right way to describe what he was doing during his layoff.

“…There were a lot of times when the UFC would tell me, 'The Jon Jones fight is happening in three months.’ for example,” Aspinall recently told TNT Sports. “So we'd start the training camp, the intensity would up and then the date would get moved.

"That happened like three or four times and then eventually he retired. So it wasn't like I was literally sat waiting for the full year. I…