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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Pattle

The reinvention of Tom Aspinall: ‘It was important to get away from MMA’

Tom Aspinall is learning to be more than a fighter. And if your focus since childhood had been on becoming the most-dangerous fighter possible, as Aspinall’s has, you’d likely find that a novel challenge. So it is for the UFC heavyweight champion, who has turned interviewer in his latest extracurricular project: the podcast The Inner Game.

Once upon a time, things were so straightforward for Aspinall. You only have to look at the timings of his UFC wins to comprehend the manner of his dominance: 45 seconds here, 60 there, 73 at a push. When things go well for Aspinall in the cage, they go very well.

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