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At the Misfits Boxing 17 weigh-ins, all 16 fighters competing on Saturday’s card at 3Arena in Dublin, Ireland, will step on the scale Friday.

In the main event, former Leicester City standout and Premier League champion Danny Simpson steps into the Misfits ring for the first time to take on fellow debutant Danny Aarons. The weight limit for Saturday’s headliner is set at 160 pounds.

Also on the card, 175-pound champion Anthony Taylor squares off with rival Gabriel Silva, the son of MMA legend Anderson Silva.

Check out Misfits Boxing 17 weigh-in results below.

Main Card, 3 p.m. ET, DAZN PPV

Danny Simpson vs. Danny Aarons

Deen the Great vs. Dave Fogarty – lightweight title fight

Anthony Taylor vs. Gabriel Silva – light heavyweight title fight

HSTikkyTokky vs. George Fensom

Sami Hamed vs. Jesse Clarke

Ben Williams vs. Warren Spencer

Mike Edwards vs. Jake Cornish

DTG vs. Minikon

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Jones isn’t bothered by all the discussion surrounding a potential title unification fight against Aspinall. His legacy is locked in either way.

UFC heavyweight champ Jon Jones says he sleeps well at night knowing his legacy in mixed martial arts (MMA) is secure. But last night he was up late tweeting about Tom Aspinall.

The reason for his surprise 3am Q&A with fans on X (formerly Twitter)? Jones just bought a baller mansion for his family, and is feeling pretty good about it. He’s not stressing all the headlines generated by interim heavyweight Tom Aspinall, who has accused him of ducking a title unification bout. Not even Aspinall’s drudging up of old steroid allegations can get “Bones” down.

“I definitely appreciate all the attention he gives me,” Jones said of Aspinall. “I’m more relevant than ever. Haven’t even fought. It’s an amazing thing.”

While Jones refused to say he’d stick around and fight Aspinall after his expected UFC 309 fight with Stipe Miocic in November, he did say he’d ‘absolutely’ kick Tom’s butt if they did face each other.

“I’m getting close to being in fight shape and I’m weighing in at 245 now,” Jones wrote. “He probably cuts weight to get down to heavyweight. The night we fought he would probably weigh a solid 25 pounds more than me, seven years younger, and I would still whip his ass like I’ve done everyone else. You guys can go ahead and believe the hype, I’ll keep doing what I’ve always done, win.”

Jones was asked why he’s always so evasive when it comes to the topic of fighting Aspinall.

“You don’t get this far in your career looking past opponents,” he replied. “Right now I’m fighting Stipe and I guarantee you’ll be watching.”

Jones’ original plan when coming back was to win the heavyweight title, defend against the greatest UFC heavyweight champion in Stipe Miocic, then retire. These days he’s dangling the possibility of another superfight before hanging up the gloves, but he’s made it clear he doesn’t think Tom Aspinall qualifies.

“Maybe I’ll leave you with blue balls, but my legacy will be just fine,” he added. “I’ve done way too much work in this game. There’s people around the world that’s been watching me fight since they can remember. He would have to go on and win like 10 championships at least in order for that to happen. The work I put in, that body of work ain’t getting touched no time soon.”

Guys, we’re starting to get the feeling Jon Jones really isn’t interested in fighting Tom Aspinall.

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The feud between Jon Jones and Tom Aspinall is growing into one of the best in MMA.

The UFC heavyweight champion unleashed a flood of tweets Friday morning as he answered trolls and fans on social media. It was triggered by Aspinall responding to Jones’ vulgar response on Instagram, questioning Jones’ legacy because of his checkered past with PED use.

This caused Jones to answer these legacy questions directly on X.

“Yep, worked my ass to prove my innocence,” Jones wrote in a reply to a Twitter user. “Now picograms are legal in our sport. Honestly, none of that will matter a few years from now when I’m covering my kids tuition. You guys still laughing about what happened at the office, I’m outside on a golf cart.”

Jones has a long history with failed drug tests, most notably for his failed tests surrounding UFC 200 in July 2016, which resulted in his removal from the card just days in advance. In that incident, Jones tested positive for two banned substances which he successfully argued he ingested through a contaminated product.

A year later at UFC 214, Jones tested positive for turinabol which he again argued was the result of a contaminated product. He then tested positive for the same metabolites ahead of UFC 232, but doctors deemed that to be the result of a long-term “pulsing effect” of the metabolite, and not a separate incident. In 2019, USADA then set new threshold levels for certain drugs, which Jones argued “exonerates him” from his previous testing issues.

Jones then turned to questions claiming that he is avoiding a showdown with UFC interim heavyweight champion Aspinall by likely facing Stipe Miocic at UFC 309.

Bro, absolutely. I’m getting close to being in fight shape and I’m weighing in at 245 now. He probably cuts weight to get down to heavyweight. The night we fought he would probably weigh a solid 25 pounds more than me, seven years younger, and I would still whip his ass like I’ve done everyone else. You guys can go ahead and believe the hype, I’ll keep doing what I’ve always done, win

Maybe I’ll leave you with blue balls, but my legacy will be just fine. I’ve done way too much work in this game. There’s people around the world that’s been watching me fight since they can remember. He would have to go on and win like 10 championships at least in order for that to happen. The work I put in, that body of work ain’t getting touched no time soon.

Aspinall surely won’t miss his chance to respond in the coming days.

Jed Meshew contributed to this report.

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Khamzat Chimaev is set to return to action at UFC 308 where his fight with former middleweight champion Robert Whittaker has been rescheduled for the co-main event.

Despite the fact that he debuted in the UFC four years ago, it still feels like there are so many unanswered questions surrounding the undefeated contender.

Chimaev has an element of mystery and myth that still surrounds him, largely thanks to the stories you will hear from the fighters that have trained alongside him.

One of those athletes is the #5-ranked middleweight Caio Borralho who got some work in with Chimaev two years ago.

Caio Borralho Reflects On Experience Training With Khamzat Chimaev In Sweden

Borralho had two main takeaways from the time that he spent training with Chimaev in the past, as he detailed in a recent interview with Submission Radio.

His first major talking point was about the level of wrestling that his fellow middleweight contender brings to the table and how Whittaker will need to be working with the right training partners in order to prepare himself for this.

“I already training with him, spent some time in Sweden with him for his training camp against Nate Diaz, the fight that never happened. I was there training with him every day, was my main sparring partner for this camp and I think it’s a very tough fight for Whittaker ‘cuz Khamzat has very great wrestling and there’s one thing about Khamzat that people don’t realize too much. They don’t know what kind of level to expect from him. Like they know by seeing but when feel it, think it’s a little bit different. This kind of level of wrestling, of grappling, I think the best wrestler in the division is Khamzat and we saw how he dominated Kamaru Usman, that’s a great, great wrestler.”

Along with his wrestling pedigree, the other major characteristic of Chimaev’s approach to MMA has been his intense work ethic.

Borralho gave some insight into this by detailing one particular session where “Borz” continued to work after completing the sparring session for the day.

“He trains a lot, like I didn’t see any other guy in my life that trains as much as he trains. Maybe that’s why sometimes he like kills his body and doesn’t make it to the fight but definitely a guy that over train everyone in the room. There was a time that we did like five rounds sparring and after sparring, he did like three or four rounds of pads and then after that, he did like a 30-minute run and I was like, ‘What the f*** is this guy doing?’”

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