Curtis Blaydes Has 'Unfinished Business' With Tom Aspinall | The MMA Hour

Curtis Blaydes discusses facing Jailton Almeida at #UFC299, why he had to withdraw from their previously scheduled fight, the hype around Almeida, if a title shot against Tom Aspinall could be next, Jon Jones and what’s next for him, his time off for action, if he would ever do bareknuckle MMA or BKFC, Jairzinho Rozenstruik’s performance, Joshua vs. Ngannou, and more.
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[@Ricquisimo]

I just earned mad respect for Curtis. My father stuttered as a kid and learned to minimize it. Hard thing to grow up with.

[@Niko-us5wu]

blaydes is the man. takes some balls to fight these men and bigger balls to speak publicity with a stutter from childhood. go blaydes

[@ravk5266]

I wish nothing but the best for Curtis! One of the nicest/realest guys in the UFC!👏

[@clinch4402]

One of the most FUN fighters too!🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣

[@drunkenmmamaster419]

Same

[@KingDomsKingdom85]

If Curtis beats Jailton then hes more than earned that rematch with Tom.

[@Fitkid7672]

This fight could go either way. curtis has the wrestling to halt almeida. All of almeida's wins have been taking opponents down.

[@corwins1991]

Curtis is awesome. Wish him nothing but success

[@VDR2612]

He is beyond clapped tho..

[@ItsEvaaaaaaaaaan]

Glad to see all the love for Curtis in the comments. A real one who has worked the hard way to get to where he is. Congrats and good luck Curtis.

[@t1nma5k22]

The fact that Curtis had to really think about who would win in an Aspinall Vs Jon Jones match up without providing a definitive answer not Only reveals the level of respect he has for Aspinall but also great regard for his technical skill AND as he mentioned the Old Guard Vs the New GuaRD!

[@lokilopez2463]

Get Curtis a job on the desk. He's done enough in the octagon. Let me be his Rogan.

[@joebutton9244]

Curtis doesn’t have the wit to be a desk commebtator😂

[@lokilopez2463]

@@joebutton9244 Nice button. Crap Joe.

[@charliesinnott9840]

I fought Hunt, Lewis, and a gorilla... this man is epic...

[@elsuperguapo971]

Let's go Curtis! México supports you. Go ahead and make a statement 💪🏽

[@seangrey1062]

RAZOR! 💪🏾💯

[@stealingtomorrowband]

I think Tom and Curtis should run it back, i want to see that. I am rooting for Aspinal. Both are great fighters... And cool dudes

[@t1nma5k22]

As a Brit, I am a Huge Aspinall fan. Also, because he is a great Guy BUT I am also a HUGE Curtis Blaydes fan, it would be great to see these 2 fight again!! I hope Curtis wins his fight with Almeida, which is definitely winnable if he fights HIS fight. He deserves the Aspinall rematch, however we all know how in MMA AND the UFC it ain't really about whop deserves what, as things typically don't play out like that. Because if that was the case, then Belal would have fought for the title a LONG ass time ago! But having said that, Curtis deserves BIG fights & Big Paydays!!

[@bluejay9235]

Curtis is like the Michael Johnson or Paul Craig of the heavyweight division 😂

[@johnchristophehaslam]

Curtis maybe Tom’s kryptonite. Toms striking insane. He leads strike differential and shortest av fight time stat leaders. If he had needed 350 strikes to finish his opponents he would have met the threshold to be second all time for sig strike accuracy after overeem. We also know he has trained jujitsu from youth. Tom describes cormier as potentially hardest fight he has avoided. However Tom has 100% td defence and leads the ufc stats for least time in bottom position time and % of fight time so what happens if he is taken by a grapppler. Curtis will answer any questions about takedown defence. Both humble straight talking great people.

[@drunkenmmamaster419]

My favorite heavyweight

[@julianforde6866]

thumbnail crazy.

[@jf1274]

Love this dude. LFG CURTIS

[@appleid3151]

Looks f**king good? That’s a bit gay 😢

[@fidazzlegyroman]

Always happy to see Curtis fight. Hope he gets the W.

[@DarkXavia]

That stutter probably gets alot of trolls.. gotta be draining.

[@t1nma5k22]

ALWAYS been a HUGE fan of Blaydes & A match up aKa rematch with Tom would be perfect as their next match-up for both fighters! I like how both have respect for each other & still recall the story of Tom's team inviting him for a drink post fight even though it was in somewhat unfortunate circumstances!! But I like hearing things like that!

[@charizard6969]

Cte is no joke.. pray for this man🙏

[@ivanraimi5524]

4k camera vs 240p camera

[@bolo5190]

This was a very interesting interview. About Curtis last fight he was not himself for sure meaning he was very far from being at at his best. Hopefully Curtis is close to being on top of his game when he battles Almaida because I believe Ameida is very sharp at what he does in his combat style, he's built very sharp and he moves very sharp and he's got great anticipation but if Blaydes really brings his A game overall he's going to present some challenges for Almeida too no doubt.

[@bolo5190]

Almeida is also a well rounded heavyweight, he could strike too but very rarely he has to show it because he's so good at avoiding the strike game so he can grapple and wrestle his opponent to the ground and then has the technique to keep them there and his level changing is very good. Almeida is a unique heavyweight and the more he wins with that kind of style vs the top top all around fighters in that division the more unique it will make him.

[@Brevuheh]

I was one of the ones questioning if aspinalls fall was legit. Blaydes was looking clean and I thought this British hype train saw an easy way out. Literally not lying. But aspinalls proved himself. Bro still a mystery though. Wouldn’t mind seeing it again.

[@skinnylizard2468]

Tom posted his surgery on his KZbin channel

[@jsbpwr]

Curtis fraud checking Almeida

[@mariogcgb]

Jon Jones haters who are grasping at Tom as their last hope don't want to admit this, but Curtis was piecing Tom up in their fight prior to the injury. Tom was taking for granted that he was a better striker, but Curtis was ready to bang that night. It was quite possible that Curtis finished him

[@thenedsmmachannel8970]

Bro the fight was literally like 12 seconds long lmao

[@gruunt4064]

you could say the same about Pavlovich

[@Bill_Dippertly]

ya you should be sorry 😞

[@Bill_Dippertly]

@@thenedsmmachannel8970word.. good point

[@t1nma5k22]

I hate people who can pass judgement as to who the better fighter was based on literally seconds of a fight, not even a full round

[@Stoney1998]

Well I heard curtis took a lot of estrogen this camp To be more sassy at the press conference and to hype up the fight 🤔

[@markmcgarvey40]

Everytime this man talks about the title...... Or fighting the number 1 guy... He gets badly kOd. Watch this Saturday

[@reekhavoc2932]

Chicago beat England

[@charliesinnott9840]

Moar over hand rights....just sayin..

[@alcottdevalte7440]

This kid hasn't looked the same after the Lewis loss, unfortunately. Hope the next fight is an exciting one even though the heavyweights shouldn't be main event anymore unless it's for a belt.

[@grandmastersub]

He won 3 of his last 4 fights after the Lewis knockout... What are u talking about "hasn't looked the same... " 😂

[@Yeshuaspupil]

​@@grandmastersubu beat me to it. He has looked great until he decided to prove something stand with Sergei. He has everything he needs to be the champ if he fights MMA, enough striking to hang in and get to to the takedown and the wrestling to stay at the top of the division.

[@alcottdevalte7440]

@@grandmastersub Not really. His setups and takedowns became sloppy later on where we didn't get to see what he does best work because he had the ko loss back in his mind. Even the fight IQ became more dumb and he started to become more reckless and do mistakes he didn't do before the Lewis loss. Even the two Francis losses made him improve and looked better later on but haven't seen much. Aspinall one wasn't much of a fight and the one before it against Daskus was somewhat of a sloppy performance where he got afraid of going to the ground.

[@alcottdevalte7440]

@@Yeshuaspupil That's because he was afraid of getting ko'd by Sergei going for a takedown and he became too predictable. Just weird how people haven't noticed Blaydes fight differently after the Lewis loss by being more gun shy in his wrestling approach. Didn't see him evolve at all...

[@KareemAbdul-jabberUFC]

This dude looks scary

[@beaualoevw]

rightfully uncrowned champion. he tko’d that crying merchant tom inside 1 minute. we all know you have the interim belt 🙏

[@bigchilling654]

peak delusion

[@grandmastersub]

​@@bigchilling654lol there is no delusional. It was a TKO😂

[@bigchilling654]

@@grandmastersub a fluke injury 5 seconds into the fight isn’t a real TKO, if you think that that’s fine but blaydes even says unfinished business

[@grandmastersub]

@@bigchilling654 McGregor vs Porier 3 was a fluke too? Lol. It's a fight bro, things happen in fights😂😂. But ur right, there is still unfinished business.

[@dilarch5957]

​@@bigchilling654 A TKO is a TKO Fake TKOs don't exist buddy... Curtis did his job by drinking milk to have strong bones and Tom didn't.

[@xxxmagnifico]

Curtis already put Tom on his ass and made him give up once, he can do it again

[@_lusty_boy_]

Give up??

[@markdavis8430]

Injury you complete Sausage 😂😂

[@bluejay9235]

​@@markdavis8430Who caused the injury?...

[@okay1775]

​@@bluejay9235Tom's had the injury since he was 17. He was limping the week before the fight lol

[@appleid3151]

Bro needs to update his internet he keeps buffering…

[@KingDomsKingdom85]

Lol. Duuuude... 😂

[@anthonybernal76]

Heavyweight is done Jon would kill aspinal. Aspinal and all the heavyweights are straight garbage. Heavy weight has declined so has light heavyweight. Nothing like 2000s and 2010s.

[@Jizzlepapi_OVO]

Jon destroys Aspinall come on now

[@tuffneggah]

bro was boring af

[@DrSiicKO]

Did Curtis Blaydes have a stroke or something? Y does he sttttuder and talk so slow and weird.

[@KingDomsKingdom85]

He's battled with a stutter his entire life bro. Apparently it used to be so much worse.

[@DrSiicKO]

No freakin way? How the hell did I never notice.

[@finnneilson6229]

When he does interviews it gets a bit worse, 1 on 1 talking can effect it more. After a fight his adrenaline is pumping and he can think more free, he's probably quite self conscious about it like most people who have pretty severe stutters

[@NoSc0pe78yearsago]

Hes always had a stutter, either ur new here or u ain’t heard him talk before

[@DrSiicKO]

@@NoSc0pe78yearsagoyeah I'm really not much of a Curtis Blaydes fan

[@HeadingEast33]

I think Blaydes beats Aspinall.