Tom blew out his knee and was out for a year. Blaydes was already ranked 4 and Tom was ranked 6 when they fought. They certainly weren't going to treat it as a LOSS for Blaydes. Tom was ranked higher when he came back than he was before the Blaydes fight and fought Tybura to headline a UK card for his injury comeback. It was the same thing as if the Blaydes fight never happened.Say what? It absolutely did. Blaydes got a #1 contender fight after. Tom fought Tybura.
Well I agree jones has lost but if you’re referring to the matt hamill fight it’s completely different, jones was beating the crap out of him and lost becuase of the angle his strike took.Yeah it's a loss wtf
Jones has a loss too
And Sean lost to chito
A loss is a loss
Yeah that’s what I mean, obviously it goes down as a loss for aspinall and a win for blaydes but should we give blaydes the credit? If aspinsll goes on to become a long reigning heavyweight champion and we then look at his career, do we point to the blaydes fight and say “this loss takes away from his greatness a bit”?It's on their records, so sure it counts.
I don't think it counts in the sense of it being a legit loss for Aspinall though.
It isn't like Blaydes did something to cause the injury. He didn't even check the kick that Aspinall injured his knee on.
You can say Blaydes won, and Aspinall lost. It's harder to say that Blaydes BEAT Aspinall, because he didn't. There was 15 seconds of even action and then Tom threw a kick that actually landed and hurt himself.
So I think it's fair to say that while Aspinall has a loss on his record in the UFC, he hasn't been beaten in the UFC.
Nah. I think if Aspinall goes on to have an all time great career at HW, beats Blaydss in the rematch and becomes a dominant champ, Blaydes' win will go down kind of like Hammill's over Jones is remembered. A legit loss for Jones, but nobody really thinks Hammill BEAT him, so you'll see people meme Blaydes a lot like they do with Hammill. People will bring up his 15 second loss to the "mighty Curtis Blaydes" and stuff as a joke.Yeah that’s what I mean, obviously it goes down as a loss for aspinall and a win for blaydes but should we give blaydes the credit? If aspinsll goes on to become a long reigning heavyweight champion and we then look at his career, do we point to the blaydes fight and say “this loss takes away from his greatness a bit”?
Well said.It's like Vitor's win over Randy Couture — it goes down as a win but it doesn't really tell us much about who the better fighter is.
It isn't like Blaydes did something to cause the injury. He didn't even check the kick that Aspinall injured his knee on.
No. It absolutely changes the rankings. That was a retarded thing to sayNah. I mean it "counts" as in it's a win on Blaydes record and a loss on Tom's and not one that could be overturned, but it didn't really change their ranking or matchmaking trajectory and nobody would argue it as a plus for Blaydes or a minus for Aspinall.
On a side note, I actually thought it was a KO at the time because it looked like Blaydes landed smashed him right on the chin, and didn't see until the replay that the punches didn't actually land. I still don't know that Blaydes didn't have anything at all to do with it, or if those punches made Tom pull back too fast or throw the kick awkwardly, but it doesn't really matter.
He was because Aspinall went full retard throwing weak and quick combos right in front of Blaydes, all blaydes had to do was stretch his arm and fistIdk, the exchange they had before it ended it looked like Curtis was landing. It's honestly hard to say, I'd have to watch it again.
Oh yeah, Blaydes jumped all the way from #4 to #4 for his next fight, and Tom fell way down the rankings from #6 to #5 for his next fight and was interim champ 4 months after coming back from his injury.No. It absolutely changes the rankings. That was a retarded thing to say