Everyone’s received an opinion on Tom Aspinall’s controversial no-contest towards Ciryl Gane at UFC 321.
After sitting on the sidelines for 15 months, Aspinall’s first undisputed heavyweight title protection got here to an anti-climactic finish within the opening spherical. With 30 seconds left within the stanza, Gane unintentionally poked each of the Brit’s eyes, bringing an instantaneous halt to the extremely anticipated conflict.
Since then, each MMA fan and pundit on the planet has provided their tackle the end. Unsurprisingly, many condemned Aspinall’s determination to bow out of the bout. Nevertheless, there are a number of who agreed with the 32-year-old’s determination.
That features each Kamaru Usman and Henry Cejudo, who seemingly sided with Aspinall throughout a latest episode of their Pound 4 Pound podcast.
“Overlook about your neck, your shoulder, your blah blah blah,” Usman stated. “You lose an eye fixed, bro, and that’s it. “
“And that I feel to me now, as I’ve my final battle, that’s the largest factor that I might say for any of those younger cats—cautious along with your eyes, man,” Cejudo added. “There’s even a man from our gymnasium that just about misplaced his eye, dude, like not too long ago in follow—getting the [expletive] toe caught in there. It’s unhappy.”
Tom Aspinall’s dad presents replace on UFC Heavyweight Champ’s imaginative and prescient
Whereas it appears like Aspinall didn’t undergo any everlasting harm as a result of dueling eye pokes, his father and chaoch, Andy Aspinall, provided a regarding replace on YouTube.
“[Doctors] stated it’s unhealthy, it’s not good,” the elder Aspinall stated. “However his eye is a bit of bit extra closed than it was. His proper eye, he nonetheless can’t see something. He stated it’s simply gray, they usually examined him on phrases and he simply couldn’t see something. His left eye, 50% — he went down about 4 letters after which he simply couldn’t see the letters. So one’s actually, actually blurry and one’s nonetheless not working.
In all probability, the UFC will look to rebook the heavyweight title tilt for someday in 2026.
