{"id":242583,"date":"2025-10-26T19:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T19:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/242583\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T19:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T19:03:09","slug":"mick-maynards-shoes-whats-next-for-tom-aspinall-ciryl-gane-after-ufc-321-no-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/242583\/","title":{"rendered":"Mick Maynard&#8217;s Shoes: What&#8217;s next for Tom Aspinall, Ciryl Gane after UFC 321 no contest?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/fighters\/tom-aspinall\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Tom Aspinall;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Tom Aspinall<\/a> vs. Ciryl Gane ended in disappointment at <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/events\/ufc-321-aspinall-vs-gane\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC 321;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC 321<\/a>, but it did come with some upside.<\/p>\n<p>After Aspinall (15-3 MMA, 8-1 UFC) had his vision impaired by an illegal eye poke from Gane (13-2 MMA, 10-2 UFC) in the first round of Saturday&#8217;s headliner in Abu Dhabi, the heavyweight title bout was <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/ufc-321-results-foul-causes-211645336.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:ruled a no contest;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ruled a no contest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The unfortunate situation seemingly sets up <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/dana-white-reacts-sh-tty-223211655.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:an immediate rematch;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an immediate rematch<\/a>, which in the grand scheme of things is a more compelling option than anything else available in the weight class currently.<\/p>\n<p>Is Aspinall vs. Gane 2 as obvious as it seems, though? Watch the video above for thoughts and analysis on the UFC 321 result and what&#8217;s next for both men.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2025\/10\/26\/ufc-321-matchmaker-whats-next-for-tom-aspinall-ciryl-gane\/86916567007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC 321 matchmaker: What&#039;s next for Tom Aspinall, Ciryl Gane?;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC 321 matchmaker: What&#8217;s next for Tom Aspinall, Ciryl Gane?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Aspinall vs. Ciryl Gane ended in disappointment at UFC 321, but it did come with some upside.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,29968,786,785,85,799,787,144668],"class_list":{"0":"post-242583","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-ciryl-gane","11":"tag-fighting","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-tom-aspinall","15":"tag-ufc","16":"tag-vision-impaired"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242583","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=242583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}