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.

Ahead of UFC 309 this weekend, interim champion, Tom Aspinall has claimed his pursuit of a title unification pairing with Jon Jones is nothing personal –