Tom Aspinall probably won’t be fighting Saturday at Madison Square Garden. It’ll take either heavyweight champion Jon Jones or challenger Stipe Miocic to fall out of the fight on Friday or Saturday — these things happen in MMA — but even the Englishman serving as the backup fighter this weekend knows how unlikely it is.

The closer we get to Saturday's UFC 309 pay-per-view card inside New York's Madison Square Garden, the less we seem to be talking about the full-time firefighter and UFC legend who makes up one half of the main event.

Stipe Miocic chewed on his place in UFC history as he picked at a plate of food in between — and even during — questions ahead of his heavyweight clash with champion Jon Jones that should satiate the palate of most fight fans.