{"id":233796,"date":"2025-10-23T01:02:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T01:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/233796\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T01:02:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T01:02:32","slug":"tom-aspinall-favors-ciryl-gane-over-lesnar-and-werdum-in-hypothetical-fights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/233796\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Aspinall favors Ciryl Gane over Lesnar and Werdum in hypothetical fights"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom Aspinall definitely rates Ciryl Gane highly as a fighter ahead of their clash this weekend, and that came across during a recent media appearance he did, where he favoured \u2018Bon Gamin\u2019 over multiple former UFC champs. The reigning UFC heavyweight champion took part in a segment for TNT Sports<\/a> as part of their \u2018Winner Stays On\u2019 segment with Aspinall picking victors in fantasy fights.<\/p>\n

The name Brock Lesnar was mentioned early on, with the UK-based divisional kingpin picking Lesnar to defeat Andrei Arlovski and Don Frye before the former UFC heavyweight champion was described as someone who would lose to Gane. After Lesnar was taken out of the game, Aspinall also favoured Gane to beat another former titleholder in the UFC\u2019s heavyweight ranks.<\/p>\n

That fighter in question was Fabricio Werdum, and the game even extended to some former light heavyweight champion options. Aspinall picked Gane to best former 205-pound kingpins like Chuck Liddell, Rashad Evans, and Quinton \u2018Rampage Jackson, before ultimately picking Randy Couture<\/a> over Gane in a potential prizefight.<\/p>\n

Tom Aspinall is \u201cprepared for a really hard fight\u201d vs. Ciryl Gane<\/p>\n

Tom Aspinall clearly thinks highly of Ciryl Gane<\/a> as a combatant, and that also comes across in how he breaks down the machinations of their matchup, which awaits them on October 25th. It\u2019s not lost on Aspinall that he is a sizable betting favorite heading into Saturday, but he\u2019s not letting it take up a meaningful amount of space in his head.<\/p>\n

As he gave an overview of the challenge that awaits him in the coming days, Aspinall said [via MMA Junkie<\/a>],<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there\u2019s this notion with the media and maybe the fans that Ciryl is not very good, which is just complete bullsh*t. I think that he\u2019s really, really good. He\u2019s super talented, he\u2019s been at the top of the division for a number of years, which is not easy to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s been an interim champion himself. He\u2019s obviously had two title shots for the undisputed title, as well, so I think the guy is really good. I\u2019ve took him extremely, extremely seriously. The fact that people expect it to be an easy fight, I don\u2019t read into that at all. I\u2019m prepared for a really hard fight.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Aspinall definitely rates Ciryl Gane highly as a fighter ahead of their clash this weekend, and that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,30513,29968,114731,786,785,85,799,787,90269],"class_list":{"0":"post-233796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-brock-lesnar","11":"tag-ciryl-gane","12":"tag-fabricio-werdum","13":"tag-fighting","14":"tag-mma","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-tom-aspinall","17":"tag-ufc","18":"tag-ufc-321"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233796","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=233796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}