Cormier Pushes Back on Jon Jones’ Aspinall Take: 'Four Minutes Isn’t Enough to Judge'

Jon Jones wasted no time clowning Tom Aspinall after UFC 321 ended in a no contest from an eye poke calling the interim champ overrated and even a quitter. Daniel Cormier isn’t buying that verdict.

On his YouTube channel, Cormier said Jones is seizing on a convenient narrative while fans overreact to the rare sight of Aspinall struggling.

“When Jon Jones is getting called a duck… he’s sitting back hoping that something happens to give him a reason to downplay that… Guys, that was a four-minute round of a fight. They did not fight a long fight to really form an opinion.”

Cormier acknowledged Ciryl Gane was finding early success more than many expected but stressed how little we actually learned.

“Ciryl could have continued to build, or Tom could have completely settled himself and turned that around… Maybe Tom Aspinall isn’t what Jon built him up to be in his mind prior to that fight, but I don’t know that we saw enough to form an opinion of his overall game in four minutes.”