Pretty much everybody wants to see UFC heavyweight champ Jon Jones defend his belt against Tom Aspinall next. Most of us want to see that fight badly enough that we’re willing to wait while the UFC negotiates to make it happen. The problem with that is that there is a growing number of contenders in reach of title shots of their own — whether they get the opportunity against Jones or Aspinall.
That includes the No. 4-ranked Sergei Pavlovich, who got back to winning ways with a decision defeat of Jairzinho Rozenstruik in Saudi Arabia, as well sixth-ranked Jailton Almeida, third-ranked Alexander Volkov, and the No. 2-ranked Ciryl Gane.
It would nice to see the UFC put together an unofficial tournament between those four, with the ultimate winner getting the first shot at the Jones vs. Aspinall winner. In that event, the best choice would seemingly to be book a fight between Gane and Volkov, given that the former just defeated the latter with an extremely dubious decision. Pavlovich, meanwhile, could then be matched up with Almeida, who has distanced himself from a loss to Curtis Blaydes by beating Alexander Romanov and Serghei Spivac.
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