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Well, you reckon that had to be felt by Jones himself. Especially when considering how this greatest UFC fighter now – and, arguably, ever – was forced to sit on stage listening as countless New Yorkers chanted for that heavyweight rival not even present? On the eve of his hyped UFC title fight against fellow American legend Miocic, Jones sat on stage inside the Garden on Thursday evening, rolling his eyes as the crowd cheered for hulking Great British adversary, Tom Aspinall. “Tommy .
.. Tommy .
.. Tommy .
..” the mob started less than 10 minutes into proceedings.
A chant instigated when, only moments earlier, UFC president Dana White had been asked if the winner of Sunday’s fight should have to fight Aspinall next. Which shouldn’t even be much of a question at all, right -- what with Pommy Tom being the UFC heavyweight interim champ and all? Yet only a day earlier, Jones had done the media rounds here in NYC declaring that he would.
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