Tom Aspinall beats Sergei Pavlovich to become UFC interim heavyweight championPA Sport StaffBritish fighter Tom Aspinall needed little over a minute to become the UFC interim heavyweight champion, despite having just two weeks to get ready for his bout with Sergei Pavlovich. The 30-year-old knocked out his Russian opponent in just 69 seconds with a punishing series of blows at UFC 295 at Madison Square Garden. Aspinall, who becomes just the third Briton to become UFC world champion, only got the call-up for the fight on October 25th after defending champion Jon Jones suffered a serious injury and pulled out of his contest against Stipe Miocic. I’ve never been so scared in my life but I have power too and I believed in myself. “I was struggling with the distance a little bit but we got there in the end.”

Source: Irish Independent November 12, 2023 23:13 UTC