Tom Aspinall

Unfiltered with Oli Dugmore

Unfiltered with Oli Dugmore || JOE Media

Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is a fighter.

Born in Atherton, he started learning traditional martial arts aged seven. Now, standing at six foot five, weighing 18 stone, he sits fifth in the UFC’s heavyweight rankings.

But the path to a successful MMA career for a British heavyweight is not an easy one. Speaking about that journey, he said: “There were some days I had 20 quid and had to decide am I going to feed the kids or am I going to put fuel in the car to go and train”

He was undefeated in the UFC, with all kinds of cash bonuses for first round finishes, until a freak injury in his last fight blew his knee apart. A year later, he returns to the Octagon.

My guest today is Tom Aspinall.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Unfiltered. My name is Oli Dugmore and today my guest is a fighter.
0:05.4	Born in Aftaton he started learning traditional martial arts, age 7.
0:09.1	Now standing at 6 foot 5 and weighing 18 stone, he sits 5th in the UFC's heavyweight rankings.
0:14.8	But the part of successful MMA career for a British heavyweight is not an easy one.
0:19.1	Speaking about that journey he said there were some days I had 20 quid and had to decide
0:23.2	how am I going to feed the kids or am I going to put the fuel in the car to go and train.
0:28.0	He was undefeated in the UFC, all kinds of cash bonuses for first round finishes.
0:32.4	Until a freak injury in his last fight blew his neopart.
0:35.4	A year later he returns to the octagon.
0:37.6	My guest today is Tom Aspenal.
0:39.6	Tom, how are you mate? How's tricks?
0:41.6	That was quite an introduction.
0:43.6	Yeah, was he alright?
0:44.5	Yeah, it was a bit of a bit of a exaggerate.
0:47.1	You're welcome.
0:47.9	It was good.
0:49.9	How are you doing mate?
0:50.9	Good. I'm doing well thanks here.
0:52.1	You're looking well as well.
0:53.1	Been banging the weights but after the knee?
0:55.8	A little bit. Yeah, I tried to keep him in shape.
0:57.2	You know what I mean? I didn't want a lot of people that go depressed and fat when they're
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