Tom Aspinall spoke openly and honestly about his next UFC fight after watching Ciryl Gane ease past Serghei Spivac at UFC Paris on Saturday.

Aspinall has huge ambitions in the heavyweight division and is targeting the title currently held by Jon Jones. However, he is happy to fight Gane next or the Russian, Sergei Pavlovich. Deep down though, the fight Aspinall wants is against Jones.

Tom Aspinall will not force through a fight against fellow UFC heavyweight contender Ciryl Gane following his victory at UFC Paris on Saturday.

“I can fight the winner of Gane and Spivac, or I fight [Sergei] Pavlovich.”

After Gane’s convincing victory, Aspinall’s stance has not changed and he still appears to have an open mind regarding his next opponent in the cage.
He told TheMacLife podcast: “I’m not a bully, if he doesn’t want the fight I’m not going to try and force it on him.

“I wanted to go in the cage, the UFC didn’t want me to go in the cage. If he wants the fight, it’s here. If he doesn’t want the fight, we’ll see.

“I know I’m a bad match-up for him. I think stylistically it’s a good match-up for me, but if he doesn’t want it, then I understand.”

Aspinall was watching cageside and said before the fight: “They are the two options, I don’t have to look too far or worry about a million different people.

Ciryl Gane shone this weekend at UFC Paris (find all the results with links to the videos here) by winning a clean and flawless victory against Serghei Spivac by TKO in the second round (video here).

The entire heavyweight category of course watched this fight, and one of the fighters was quick to call out Gane. And this fighter is called Tom Aspinall, who requested a fight against ‘Bon Gamin’. And here is what the latter answered during the post-fight press conference: