Tom Aspinall is honest.
The Fear Of Fighting
Tom Aspinall is the current interim UFC Heavyweight Champion, and he got to this point by facing some of the biggest and scariest men in the world. For a fan, it may sound crazy to hear a UFC fighter say they’re scared, but if you really think about it, it all makes sense.
Fighting is a human game of chess. One bad move and it’s all over. You may think you’re blocking a punch, but get caught by a head kick and you wake up to thousands of fans cheering and you don’t know why. Fighting has to be one of the most nerve-wracking things on the planet, and Tom Aspinall joined Logan Paul’s Impaulsive podcast to explains his thought process behind openly being scared.
It’s one of the scariest feelings. Being sat in that arena and you’re getting your hands wrapped, and you can hear the roar of the crowd, like, it’s shaking the walls. You are scared to get in there. And you know that somewhere else in that arena is somebody else getting their hands wrapped as well. There’s another guy in here going through the same thing as me and we don’t know each other, and we’re just going to go in there, we’re going to meet in the middle in front of millions of people and just fight. And one of us is probably going to be separated from our consciousness. Only one of us is going to make it. There’s two of us, we’re supposed to be all alpha male, like I will openly speak about how scared I am when I fight. Wether it’s Jon Jones or somebody else, I’m going to look him in the eye and I’m going to be like “I’m fucking scared, but I’m coming for you.” I try to knock everybody out, but I’m scared of every single person, but that fear makes me super sharp. It’s the most unpredictable sport in the world.
Tom currently does not have a fight scheduled, but he’s been calling for Jon Jones for over a year now. Recently, he said he’d fight anyone at this point.
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