{"id":242948,"date":"2025-10-26T23:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T23:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/242948\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T23:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T23:33:07","slug":"apsinall-v-gane-ufc-heavyweight-champion-tom-apsinall-requires-tests-on-eye-back-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/242948\/","title":{"rendered":"Apsinall v Gane: UFC heavyweight champion Tom Apsinall requires tests on eye back in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"

UFC heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall requires further tests on his eye after his title defence at UFC 321 against Ciryl Gane ended as a no contest.<\/p>\n

Gane accidentally poked the Briton in both eyes while attempting a punch late in the first round of their headline contest in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n

Aspinall was unable to continue, telling referee Jason Herzog “I can’t see”, and it was waved off as a no contest<\/a> with the Mancunian retaining his belt.<\/p>\n

He was taken to hospital after the fight and did not appear for the post-fight news conference.<\/p>\n

The 32-year-old suffered a serious knee injury<\/a> in 2022 – tearing his medial collateral ligament (MCL) and his meniscus, and sustaining damage to his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) – and spent a year in recovery after surgery.<\/p>\n

“It’s a dangerous sport,” Aspinall said in a video posted to his YouTube channel.<\/p>\n

“It’s way scarier than what I did to my knee. With your knee, you know it’s going to be alright but you don’t know how it’s going to be with your eye.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall requires further tests on his eye after his title defence at UFC 321…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-242948","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\/242948","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=242948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}