UFC interim heavyweight champion, Tom Aspinall, is soaking his knuckles in petrol to make his knuckles harder, one of those bizarre cause-and-effect relationships I had no idea existed. Probably because I never saw that social media clip of bareknuckle legend Joe Joyce sharing his old-school training methods.
I guess it beats getting smashed by a giant truck tire.
I wanted to resort back to a bit of gypsy heritage that I’ve got, so I thought, right, what I’m going to do is I’m going to make a little ring out of hay bales,” Aspinall told The MMA Hour. “When it gets to about 4 a.m., I get my alarm on, I go outside, do a bit shadowboxing in the hay bales — and then I do the old traveler method of dipping your knuckles in petrol for about 20 minutes as the sun’s coming up, and that hardens your knuckles. These are some of the hardest knuckles in the UFC right here right now. They’re like rocks.”
Maybe he should soak his knee in petrol, as well.
Aspinall (14-3) will defend the substitute strap when he rematches Curtis Blaydes in the UFC 304 pay-per-view (PPV) co-main event on July 27 in Manchester. The winner is expected to unify the heavyweight titles against Jon Jones or Stipe Miocic, depending on the outcome of their November title fight.
What if you soak the dingus in gas? Will that make it harder too?
Drive Fast Dick Gas
Lol perfect
What mung wrote this?
Why is modern life always “social media clips”?
It’s from a great documentary.
But I guess if someone else spliced it out it 10 years later then it must have originated on the TikToks right? 
Punching this thing used to be the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard (internet says it’s a makiwara).
Soaking in petrol to harden knuckles is now my high water mark for martial arts stupidity.
Classic
Add the banana tree in there also, for Ur shins
It was Bruce and JCVD that got me into martial arts in the late 80s ,
And even back then I knew Steven Segal was a fraud
Not Phooey
Hes a gypsy?
Does he have any traveller roots or is he talking shit?
Did he take a bunch of money from old people and then not install a driveway?
Yeah i dont know how punching a kebab is going to help anything.
That’s what they do! Take teh deposit and fuck off.
