Cain Velasquez snubbed as Tom Aspinall is hailed as UFC’s best-ever heavyweight

Welterweight contender Ian Machado Garry shared his thoughts on Tom Aspinall’s climb to the top of the heavyweight division during a recent chat with Games Hub.

Garry did not just praise Aspinall’s talent – he went further, calling him the best heavyweight the UFC has ever seen, putting him ahead of legends like Stipe Miocic and Cain Velasquez.

“I think Tom is phenomenal. I think he’s absolutely the best heavyweight we’ve ever seen in the UFC, and now he’s got the belt, he is the champion.

“I said this to Tom when I saw him in Vegas recently. I said to him, ‘It sucks to win the belt that way, to be the champion this way that someone has ran, or retired, or ducked, whatever way you want to call it, or paint the picture. But no one’s gonna remember that in three fights time. They’re just gonna remember what you’ve done and that you are the champion of the world and you’re the best in the division. And that’s it.’”

Daniel Cormier believes Cain Velasquez could have been the heavyweight GOAT

Daniel Cormier is among those who might see things differently.

Cormier had a close-up view of Velasquez’s rise while they were teammates, and he has often said that injuries were the only thing standing between Velasquez and a legacy as the greatest heavyweight ever.

“The best. I’ve never seen anything like it. I still today have not seen anything like it. The training, the skill set, the ability. He really could do it all.

“If he didn’t have all those injuries, he would be by far the greatest heavyweight of all time

“No one would’ve beaten him… He was a monster, and he just worked and he worked and he worked. And he worked himself into injury after injury after injury,” Cormier told Aljamain Sterling on his YouTube channel.