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Curtis Blaydes Wants The Winner of Tai Tuivasa vs Ciryl Gane

Curtis BlaydesCurtis Blaydes is looking forward to facing the winner of Ciryl Gane and Tai Tuivasa, after his win over Tom Aspinall at UFC: London. The fight didn’t go exactly how Blaydes envisioned the bout going, as he won via TKO/injury in 15 seconds. Aspinall’s knee blew out as he went to take a step back, […]

Curtis Blaydes

Curtis Blaydes is looking forward to facing the winner of Ciryl Gane and Tai Tuivasa, after his win over Tom Aspinall at UFC: London.

The fight didn’t go exactly how Blaydes envisioned the bout going, as he won via TKO/injury in 15 seconds. Aspinall’s knee blew out as he went to take a step back, after landing a leg kick on Blaydes. It was another unfortunate end to a card, just one week after the Yair Rodriguez vs Brian Ortega fight.

Blaydes claimed that he wan’t even going to go to his wrestling, and wanted to stand and throw hands with Aspinall. He was asked in his post-fight interview if that was the plan.

“Yeah, everyone was hyping up his speed. He’s not as fast as you guys think he seems to be. I know it was only 15 seconds, but every exchange he got touched. A lot of his highlights when he’s sparking these guys, they’re stagnant… I don’t believe the hype, I just don’t think he’s that fast.” Blaydes said.

Curtis Blaydes will only fight the winner of Gane vs Tuivasa, and won’t fight down the rankings

“Heading into this fight I envisioned the winner, who is me, facing the winner of Gane and Tuivasa. I’m not ‘gonna pass up an opportunity to fight those guys.” Blaydes said

He continued on to another question, asking whether he would rather fight again instead of waiting for Gane and Tuivasa.

“No, why would I do that? That doesn’t help me with the rankings at all. Staying active? You don’t have to stay active. You have to beat highly ranked opponents. So I’m going to wait for the winner, I will not be taking numbers 6-8. It doesn’t help me, it helps them. I’m not looking to give any handouts.”

Blaydes was firm that he would like to fight the winner of Gane and Tuivasa. A win over one of them, would insure him a title fight as well.

Tom Aspinall Suffers Horrific Injury In TKO Loss Against Curtis Blaydes – UFC London Highlights

Tom Aspinall, Curtis BlaydesCurtis Blaydes’ outing with Tom Aspinall resulted in an anticlimactic finish at UFC London. The number fourth-ranked contender at heavyweight, Blaydes went into the bout looking to extend his win streak to three against a record-breaking rising prospect in Aspinall at UFC Fight Night 208: Blaydes v Aspinall on July 23 at the O2 Arena […]

Tom Aspinall, Curtis Blaydes

Curtis Blaydes’ outing with Tom Aspinall resulted in an anticlimactic finish at UFC London.

The number fourth-ranked contender at heavyweight, Blaydes went into the bout looking to extend his win streak to three against a record-breaking rising prospect in Aspinall at UFC Fight Night 208: Blaydes v Aspinall on July 23 at the O2 Arena in London.

Aspinall went right to work with an explosive start to the main event. It didn’t last long as he succumbed to an unfortunate knee injury on a step back in the opening seconds of the fight, calling for a stop to the main event.

Blaydes won the fight by TKO within 15 seconds in the first round.

Below, catch the highlights from Curtis Blaydes vs. Tom Aspinall

UFC London: Blaydes vs. Aspinall – Results

UFC LondonLowKick MMA will be bringing you UFC London: Blaydes vs. Aspinall results throughout the night (Sat. July 23. 2022) live from the O2 Arena in London, England. Taking main event honors in the organization’s second outing to the UK this year; a heavyweight headliner featuring the #4 ranked contender, Curtis Blaydes, and the streaking hometown favorite, the #6 rated […]

UFC London

LowKick MMA will be bringing you UFC London: Blaydes vs. Aspinall results throughout the night (Sat. July 23. 2022) live from the O2 Arena in London, England.

Taking main event honors in the organization’s second outing to the UK this year; a heavyweight headliner featuring the #4 ranked contender, Curtis Blaydes, and the streaking hometown favorite, the #6 rated challenger, Tom Aspinall.

In the midst of a two-fight winning run, Blaydes most recently headlined a UFC Fight Night Columbus event earlier this year, defeating Chris Daukaus with an early second round knockout win. The victory came off the back of a prior decision success against Jairzinho Rozenstruik.

As for Team Kaobon staple, Aspinall, the Atherton native headlined UFC London back in March against Alexander Volkov — stopping the Russian and common-foe with a straightforward first round straight armbar win.

UFC London: Blaydes vs. Aspinall – Results

UFC London Main Card Results: (ESPN+ 3 p.m. ET)

Heavyweight: Curtis Blaydes vs. Tom Aspinall

Middleweight: Jack Hermansson vs. Chris Curtis

Lightweight: Paddy Pimblett vs. Jordan Leavitt

Light Heavyweight: Nikita Krylov vs. Alexander Gustafsson

Flyweight: Molly McCann vs. Hannah Goldy

Light Heavyweight: Paul Craig vs. Volkan Oezdemir

UFC London Preliminary Card Results: (ESPN+ 12 p.m. ET)

Lightweight: Mason Jones vs. L’udovit Klein

Lightweight: Marc Diakiese vs. Damir Hadzovic

Featherweight: Nathaniel Wood vs. Charles Rosa

Featherweight: Makwan Amirkhani vs. Jonathan Pearce

Flyweight: Muhammad Mokaev vs. Charles Johnson

Lightweight: Jai Herbert vs. Kyle Nelson

Flyweight: Victoria Leonardo vs. Mandy Bohm

Welterweight: Claudio Silva vs. Nicolas Dalby

Blaydes Sends A Message To London Crowd Before Aspinall Bout

Curtis Blaydes isn’t worried about going into enemy territory at UFC London. Curtis Blaydes will be at the center of the O2 Arena in London today fighting one of “The Big Smoke’s” own Tom Aspinall. Earlier this year the UFC brou…

Curtis Blaydes isn’t worried about going into enemy territory at UFC London. Curtis Blaydes will be at the center of the O2 Arena in London today fighting one of “The Big Smoke’s” own Tom Aspinall. Earlier this year the UFC brought an event to the O2 Arena and the atmosphere was electric. With many UK…

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UFC Fight Night 208: Blaydes vs. Aspinall Odds, Schedule, Predictions

Tom Aspinall gets his toughest test to date with Curtis Blaydes headlining a Fight Night card from the O2 Arena in London. Aspinall has enjoyed a quick ascent…

Tom Aspinall gets his toughest test to date with Curtis Blaydes headlining a Fight Night card from the O2 Arena in London. Aspinall has enjoyed a quick ascent…