obliged me in advance to make a special autograph request .
The interim heavyweight champion is in New York for fight week as he prepares to step in as a replacement for Saturday's main event defended his share of the heavyweight title against . A lot was made of this in the lead up to the fight Neither have committed to competing again after this weekend, let alone face Aspinall.
During his visit to the Big Apple, Aspinall had a humorous interaction with a fan who was sympathetic to the cause. Aspinall posted a video to his Instagram Stories in which the fan asked him to sign a rubber duck that happened to have Jones' name on it, a reference to Jones “ducking” in front of the British star.
Watch the scene below (h/t Championship Rounds).
“Wild place New York,” Aspinall wrote on the video.
Although there is no fight planned between Jones and Aspinall, tensions between the two are at an all-time high. Jones – the greatest fighter in light heavyweight history and arguably the best pound-for-pound fighter of all time – won a vacant heavyweight title with a dominant submission of at however, was unable to defend his title in a scheduled fight against Miocic after a chest injury.
In Jones' absence, Aspinall defeated won an interim title and have already successfully defended it once, while Jones and Miocic remained focused on their duel, which has been postponed to November 16th.
Jones has given a number of reasons for not taking note of Aspinall's suggestion of a unification fight, most recently saying that Aspinall was doing so
