{"id":150803,"date":"2025-09-17T23:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T23:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/150803\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T23:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T23:32:07","slug":"ufc-321-poster-drops-tom-aspinall-vs-ciryl-gane-strawweight-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/150803\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 321 Poster Drops: Tom Aspinall vs Ciryl Gane &#038; Strawweight title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/7\/22\/24472598\/dana-whites-breaking-news-tom-aspinall-vs-ciryl-gane-booked-for-ufc-321-in-abu-dhabi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">defends his undisputed title for the very first time<\/a> against former interim champion Ciryl Gane in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/7\/24\/24473849\/ufc-321-fight-card-start-time-date-location-aspinall-vs-gane-jones-abu-dhabi-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC 321<\/a> main event, which will take place next month (Sat., Oct. 25, 2025) inside Etihad Arena on \u201cFight Island\u201d in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Today, the promotion released the UFC 321 poster on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As expected, the poster itself is pretty generic and something you\u2019ve seen hundreds of times. Oh well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Aspinall (15-3) was promoted to undisputed champion on June 21, 2025, after Jon Jones <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/6\/21\/24453444\/breaking-dana-white-jon-jones-retired-tom-aspinall-now-ufc-undisputed-heavyweight-champion\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">retired<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/7\/16\/24469111\/video-unchallenged-jon-jones-explains-latest-ufc-retirement-claims-hes-back-to-entertain-america\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">then unretired a week later<\/a>). The 32-year-old British fighter is riding a three-win streak, with all of those wins coming under a minute and 30 seconds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Gane (13-2) is riding a two-fight winning streak and is coming off a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2024\/12\/8\/24316138\/alexander-volkov-rips-adalaide-byrd-over-ufc-310-screwjob-maybe-she-liked-ganes-body-more\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">very controversial split decision win<\/a> over Alexander Volkov. UFC 321 will be Gane\u2019s third chance to claim undisputed Heavyweight gold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Here is the rest of the card so far:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Tom Aspinall vs. Ciryl Gane<br \/>Mackenzie Dern vs. Virna Jandiroba<br \/>Alexander Volkov vs. Jailton Almeida<br \/>Umar Nurmagomedov vs. Mario Bautista<br \/>Aleksandar Rakic vs. Azamat Murzakanov<br \/>Mateusz Rebecki vs. Ludovit Klein<br \/>Hamdy Abdelwahab vs. Chris Barnett<br \/>Ikram Aliskerov vs. Jun Yong Park<br \/>Azat Maksum vs. Mitch Raposo<br \/>Jaqueline Amorim vs. Mizuki Inoue<br \/>Abdul-Kareem Al-Selwady vs. Matheus Camilo<br \/>Nathaniel Wood vs. Jose Delgado<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">To checkout UFC\u2019s upcoming schedule of events click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/pages\/ufc-mma-schedule\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall defends his undisputed title for the very first time against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,101248],"class_list":["post-150803","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-posters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150803","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=150803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}