{"id":237872,"date":"2025-10-24T15:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T15:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/237872\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T15:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T15:34:08","slug":"ufc-321-tom-aspinall-heavier-than-ciryl-gane-before-10-second-face-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/237872\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 321: Tom Aspinall heavier than Ciryl Gane before 10-second face-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tom Aspinall was cheered by fans as he weighed in heavier than Ciryl Gane before the pair&#8217;s heavyweight title fight at UFC 321 in Abu Dhabi on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Manchester&#8217;s Aspinall <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/mixed-martial-arts\/live\/c8dr43pnv8gt\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">weighed 255lb (18st 3lb)<\/a>, which was 7.5lb heavier than Frenchman Gane&#8217;s 247.5lb (17st 9.5lb).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While the 32-year-old was serenaded by &#8220;Tommy Aspinall&#8221; chants throughout, Gane was greeted by boos as he stepped on the scales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pair continued to show respect to each other during a rapid 10-second face-off, as they have throughout fight week, by ending it with smile towards each other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Aspinall, who was pumped up in front of fans at the Etihad Arena, is making the first defence of his undisputed heavyweight title since being upgraded from interim champion in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is going to be a very special performance guys, make sure you tune in, this is big,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gane was his usual calm self and appeared unbothered by the boos, before delivering a short message.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Very glad to be here guys, see you Saturday, thank you,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Aspinall was cheered by fans as he weighed in heavier than Ciryl Gane before the pair&#8217;s heavyweight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-237872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237872","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=237872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}