UFC CEO Dana White is hellbent on booking Stipe Miocic vs. Jon Jones.

That’s why matchmakers were allowed to pit interim vampire heavyweight champion, Tom Aspinall, against No. 4-ranked title contender, Curtis Blaydes, for the UFC 304 pay-per-view (PPV) co-main event later this month in Manchester.

But former 265-pound titleholder, Daniel Cormier, believes the promotion may be forced to rethink its plans for Miocic vs. Jones if Aspinall can deliver a spectacular performance against Blaydes, which in turn would prompt a “fan uprising.”

Or maybe “DC” just fell off a ladder and hit his head.

“Is he drunk? Did he hurt his head? Did he fall off a ladder or something like this? Is he working on a comedy routine? I ask because he thinks that Tom Aspinall, with a proper victory, could take Stipe’s fight against Jon Jones away,” former UFC middleweight, Chael Sonnen, said on his YouTube channel (transcribed by MMA News). “He can’t be serious, right? He said with a proper performance, gotta be an absolute drubbing … Aspinall’s gotta go out there in front of his people and whip Curtis Blaydes, and there could be such an uprising by you, the crowd, that UFC would have no choice but to give Tom the fight.”

Jones, who currently holds the heavyweight crown, was originally booked to throw down against Miocic at UFC 295 in New York. Unfortunately, a serious training injury delayed their long-overdue showdown, prompting Aspinall to vent his frustrations on social media.

Not that Aspinall — or Cormier — have the influence to initiate any changes.

“There’s no way he believes that, right? Sometimes you say things and it’s on accident,” Sonnen continued. “In a normal situation you’d cut, edit that out, give me another shot. But, you’re live. And you look back and go, ‘That’s not at all what I meant.’ I’m assuming that’s what happened here. There’s nothing that can be done to Curtis Blaydes that would be worse than what happened to Sergei [Pavlovich]. And there is no amount of eyes on this match that is going to have the focus and the interest, thus making a victory potentially by Tom more incredible. To act as though that could interfere with a contractual agreement on a fight … what in the blue hell are you talking about?”

Plot twist: Blaydes wins (again) and none of this matters after UFC 304.

UFC CEO Dana White is hellbent on booking Stipe Miocic vs. Jon Jones.

That’s why matchmakers were allowed to pit interim vampire heavyweight champion, Tom Aspinall, against No. 4-ranked title contender, Curtis Blaydes, for the UFC 304 pay-per-view (PPV) co-main event later this month in Manchester.

But former 265-pound titleholder, Daniel Cormier, believes the promotion may be forced to rethink its plans for Miocic vs. Jones if Aspinall can deliver a spectacular performance against Blaydes, which in turn would prompt a “fan uprising.”

Or maybe “DC” just fell off a ladder and hit his head.

“Is he drunk? Did he hurt his head? Did he fall off a ladder or something like this? Is he working on a comedy routine? I ask because he thinks that Tom Aspinall, with a proper victory, could take Stipe’s fight against Jon Jones away,” former UFC middleweight, Chael Sonnen, said on his YouTube channel (transcribed by MMA News). “He can’t be serious, right? He said with a proper performance, gotta be an absolute drubbing … Aspinall’s gotta go out there in front of his people and whip Curtis Blaydes, and there could be such an uprising by you, the crowd, that UFC would have no choice but to give Tom the fight.”

Jones, who currently holds the heavyweight crown, was originally booked to throw down against Miocic at UFC 295 in New York. Unfortunately, a serious training injury delayed their long-overdue showdown, prompting Aspinall to vent his frustrations on social media.

Not that Aspinall — or Cormier — have the influence to initiate any changes.

“There’s no way he believes that, right? Sometimes you say things and it’s on accident,” Sonnen continued. “In a normal situation you’d cut, edit that out, give me another shot. But, you’re live. And you look back and go, ‘That’s not at all what I meant.’ I’m assuming that’s what happened here. There’s nothing that can be done to Curtis Blaydes that would be worse than what happened to Sergei [Pavlovich]. And there is no amount of eyes on this match that is going to have the focus and the interest, thus making a victory potentially by Tom more incredible. To act as though that could interfere with a contractual agreement on a fight … what in the blue hell are you talking about?”

Plot twist: Blaydes wins (again) and none of this matters after UFC 304.