{"id":16469,"date":"2025-07-23T17:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T17:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/16469\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T17:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T17:22:07","slug":"is-gane-the-new-holly-holm-fans-react-to-tom-aspinalls-first-ufc-title-defense-against-ciryl-gane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/16469\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Is Gane the new Holly Holm?\u2019: Fans react to Tom Aspinall\u2019s first UFC title defense against Ciryl Gane"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom Aspinall<\/a> FINALLY has a UFC fight and his first title defense.<\/p>\n

The UFC heavyweight champion defends his undisputed UFC heavyweight title against Ciryl Gane<\/a> at UFC 321<\/a> on Oct. 25 in Abu Dhabi. It will be the fight fight for Aspinall since he defeated Curtis Blaydes<\/a> at UFC 304<\/a> on July 27, 2024.<\/p>\n

For Gane, it will be his third UFC title shot in the heavyweight division. He lost previous title shots to Jon Jones<\/a> via submission at UFC 285<\/a> and Francis Ngannou<\/a> via decision at UFC 270<\/a>.<\/p>\n

See how the fans reacted to the fight below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Aspinall FINALLY has a UFC fight and his first title defense. The UFC heavyweight champion defends his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[1914,793,64,63,17783,17782,11810,1635,786,13057,585,17778,17779,17780,1460,1347,785,3127,17781,1628,85,320,8821,319,792,787,1396],"class_list":["post-16469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-against","tag-aspinall","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-category-community-comments","tag-ciryl","tag-defense","tag-fans","tag-fighting","tag-first","tag-front-page","tag-gane","tag-holly","tag-holm","tag-is","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-new","tag-react","tag-s","tag-sports","tag-the","tag-title","tag-to","tag-tom","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16469","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=16469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}