Tom Aspinall is one of the world's largest heavyweights and even managed to doll the 'World's strongest man'.
Eddie Hall, the WSM winner of 2017, is 352 pounds and Brak Records for Punching Power at the UFC Performance Institute once held by Francis Ngannou and Alex Pereira. But in the cage he learned the levels when he started to struggle with interim heavyweight champion Aspinall.
Both big men prepare for their own fighting; On April 26 in KSW 105 Gliwice, Polen Hall will take on colleague Strongman Mariusz Pudzianowski in his entire MMA debut. Aspinall is still waiting for the date for his fight with Jon Jones to unite the UFC Heavyweight Division, but is expected this year.
Eddie Hall admits that Tom Aspinall Sparring him 'Feel like a girl'
Prior to his full debut in De Kooi on April 26, Eddie Hall spent time with UFC champion Tom Aspinall. The British duo has previously worked together, and while the Strongman chooses to train with a tailor -made team in Stoke, the camps of the couple are in contact.
In an exclusive chat with bloody elbow prior to the fight, Hall explained: “Look, man, I am not Jon Jones, but I can honestly say that I have never had such a humiliating experience to get in with Tom Aspinall and Sparren.
“Do the wrestling because you just feel a little girl. Even a man of my size, he just uses your strengths against you and his hands are so fast. His footwork is just incredible. You just feel off – and F – Y to go in the ring and do business with Tom Aspinall.
“And that's me, that's a” world strong man “who says that. It is a very modest experience that goes into the ring with Tom.”
Eddie Hall supports Aspinall for dethroning Jon Jones
The big fight that the UFC Fandom wants to see is the unification of heavyweight between Aspinall and Jones. They have played cat and mouse in recent years, but it seems that Dana White might be about to let it finally happen.
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Fans have theoretized that the American 'dives' his British counterpart, especially given his ruthless striving for other fights. Last November he was inexplicably confronted with Stipe Miocic at UFC 309 and he insisted that the then champion of the light-heavyweight Alex Pereira was a greater draw.
“I believe so,” Hall replied when he was asked if Aspinall Jones would beat. “Jon Jones is clearly the champion and he is formidable. But there is a reason why this fight in my opinion was diving. If Jon Jones thought he could beat him, would he now fight him against him, not?
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