Interim UFC heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall has taken the time to foretell who will change into the boys’s UFC champion by the top of 2025.
Everybody is aware of that Tom Aspinall is the subsequent contender for the undisputed heavyweight championship. After all, he cannot actually show he is the very best heavyweight on the planet till a take care of Jon Jones is finalized.
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In the meanwhile, you’ll have to sit and wait. Alas, Aspinall has a number of time on his fingers, so it is comprehensible that he is eager about the remaining UFC males’s champions and what is going on on in every division.
In a current interview, he spoke candidly about what he expects to occur by this time subsequent yr.
đź‘‘Tom Aspinall predicts all UFC champions in 2025:
Flyweight: Alexandre Pantoja
Bantamweight: Merab Dvalishvili
Featherweight: Ilia Topuria
Light-weight: Islam Makhachev
Welterweight: Belal Muhammad
Middleweight: Khamzat Chimaev
Gentle Heavyweight: Ankalaev/Pereira… pic.twitter.com/6K44LHjc8Z— Dwelling of Struggle (@Home_of_Fight) December 28, 2024
Aspinall’s UFC Males’s Champion Prediction
Flyweight: “I imply, I might have chosen Mohamed Mokaev, however he is gone. So, (Alexandre) Pantoja, I’ll say this – Pantoja will nonetheless be there this time subsequent yr. ”
Bantamweight: “So subsequent yr it’ll be between Merab (Dvalishvili) and Umar (Nurmagomedov). It is an fascinating battle, however I might assist Merab.”
Featherweight: “Lerone Murphy will probably be up there by this time subsequent yr, however I don’t suppose he’s gained the title but – I feel it’ll most likely be subsequent yr…I feel Ilia Topria will nonetheless win the title. ” Develop into a champion by this time subsequent yr. Simple. “
Light-weight: “This time subsequent yr, Islam will probably be champion once more.”
Welterweight: “I feel Belal (Muhammad) may be very underrated, however I feel he’ll be champion once more subsequent yr.”
Middleweight: “Sure, I’ve fought Drikas many instances and I don’t plan on doing it anymore, however I feel it will be silly to say that Khamzat Chimaev gained’t be champion by this time subsequent yr – so I am going to name it Khamzat.”
Gentle Heavyweight: “I feel Alex Pereira, however oh, I do not know. He has a tricky battle with Magomed Ankalaev, however I feel it is a actually powerful battle, so I do not find out about that. I goes to sit down on the fence, will probably be considered one of two folks: both Ankalaev or Pereira.
Govt: “Oh, come on, come on. By this time subsequent yr — as Ricky Gervais stated (on “The Workplace”) — I’d nonetheless be sitting on this sizzling seat — so subsequent yr. I’m positively going to inform you by this time.”
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