{"id":123928,"date":"2025-09-06T20:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T20:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/123928\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T20:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T20:26:07","slug":"video-aspinall-left-in-tears-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/123928\/","title":{"rendered":"Video! Aspinall Left In Tears In Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">UFC heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall was left with tears in his eyes earlier today (Sat., Sept. 6, 2025) at UFC Paris LIVE on <a href=\"http:\/\/go.web.plus.espn.com\/c\/482924\/566982\/9070?sharedid=MMAMania\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN+<\/a> from inside Accor Arena in Paris, France, after witnessing his main sparring partner, Ante Delija, capture a first-round TKO win in his official UFC debut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Aspinall, who nearly got <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/latest-news\/387256\/face-off-tom-aspinall-showered-boos-stares-down-ciryl-gane-ahead-ufc-321-title-fight-video\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">booed out of Paris<\/a> earlier this week, was sitting front row and center to watch Delija\u2019s first trip to the Octagon. The heavyweight king has been working with Delija leading up to his UFC crossover from Professional Fighters League (PFL) and was hoping to see his friend deliver on arrival. That\u2019s exactly what Delija did as he stopped UFC heavyweight veteran Marcin Tybura with a blistering first-round knockout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Check out the finish below:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Delija, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2020\/10\/14\/21515798\/ufc-fight-island-6-just-lost-its-co-main-event-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">supposed to make his UFC debut<\/a> all the way back in 2020 on \u201cFight Island,\u201d came into Saturday\u2019s fight with something to prove. He\u2019s been very successful under the PFL banner over the past four years, but he needed to put on a performance to showcase his top level ability as a member of the UFC roster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Needless to say, Delija was very emotional after his knockout victory and it led to Aspinall tearing up cageside as well. It was an all-around good moment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For complete UFC Paris results, coverage, and highlights click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-results\/385116\/ufc-paris-results-live-streaming-updates-imavov-vs-borralho\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall was left with tears in his eyes earlier today (Sat., Sept. 6, 2025)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,45879,6656],"class_list":["post-123928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-on-espn-fight-night","tag-ufc-results"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}