Jon Jones leaves vulgar insult on Tom Aspinall Instagram video

Jon Jones had some choice words in response to a Tom Aspinall interview, to say the least.

Aspinall recorded a cheeky interview with SPORTbible, in which he couldn’t help but take a jab at Jones when the question of who is “the champion of fight dodging?” was lobbed up for him. The two have been involved in a heated public rivalry for the better part of the last year, with Aspinall (the UFC’s interim heavyweight champion) accusing Jones of avoiding a fight with him and instead choosing to defend his heavyweight title against the comparatively inactive Stipe Miocic.

“Fight dodging?” Aspinall said. “That would have to be Jon Jones, wouldn’t it? We know he’s trying to fight ‘Old Man Stipe.’ Well, he’s going to fight Stipe. He’s the fight dodger around here.”

The slight did not go unnoticed by Jones, who left a vulgar comment in the replies that was later deleted.

“This dude literally has my large black c*ck in his mouth every week,” Jones wrote. “I’m flattered. I absolutely guarantee he will not win more world championships than me. That’s truly all that matters at the end of the day.

“There’s been many champions, no one like me. I sleep good at night.”

Jones won a vacant UFC heavyweight title with a dominant submission win over Ciryl Gane at UFC 285 in March 2023. Prior to his move to heavyweight, Jones reigned over the 205-pound division for over a decade, going undefeated with the exception of a disqualification loss to Matt Hamill. He won light heavyweight gold three times, having lost an undisputed belt for his involvement in a hit-and-run and an interim belt after failing a drug test. His final run as light heavyweight champion ended in 2020 amid a pay dispute with the UFC and a subsequent change of divisions.

It is not yet known when Jones’ bout with Miocic will be rescheduled (the two were previously booked to fight at UFC 295), but all signs point to the fighters finally crossing paths in November.

In the time since Jones’ win over Gane, Aspinall has won an interim heavyweight title and successfully defended it. He defeated Sergei Pavlovich to win the vacant belt at UFC 295 and then defeated Curtis Blaydes via 60-second knockout at UFC 304 this past July.