UFC interim heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall didn’t get the opportunity to unify the title at UFC 309, but he was cageside to watch Jon Jones defend against Stipe Miocic . The main event of the penultimate UFC pay-per-view of 2024 took place at Madison Square Garden in New York, topped by a heavyweight title bout billed as a GOAT vs. GOAT showdown. Aspinall, who weighed in as an alternate and would have much rather been competing in that main event fight against Jones, had to settle for watching cageside.