{"id":255464,"date":"2025-11-01T12:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T12:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/255464\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T12:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T12:49:09","slug":"one-eyed-aspinall-compares-gane-to-freddy-krueger-for-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/255464\/","title":{"rendered":"One-eyed Aspinall compares Gane to Freddy Krueger for Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The eye pokes suffered by Tom Aspinall at UFC 321 remains a touchy subject around the mixed martial arts (MMA) community, but at least the reigning UFC heavyweight champion was able to have some fun with it on Halloween.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It\u2019s been one week since Aspinall met Ciryl Gane for the undisputed UFC heavyweight title atop UFC 321 in Abu Dhabi, UAE, and fight fans are still being consumed by it. That\u2019s because Aspinall was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/latest-news\/398274\/video-tom-aspinall-catches-knuckle-deep-double-eye-poke-ufc-321-main-event-ends-in-no-contest-highlights-results-espn-ppv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">poked in both eyes<\/a> by Gane and was unable to continue. The main event title fight was ruled a No Contest after just a few minutes of action and now we\u2019re all experiencing the fallout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">On Friday, Aspinall finally had some fun with the situation and took to social media to show off his eye patch for Halloween. In addition, Aspinall shared a fake photo of Gane dressed up as Freddy Krueger, suggesting the UFC heavyweight contender was ready to poke more eyes with his Krueger claws. It was pretty funny and good to see considering the negative backlash Aspinall has received over the past week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Check out Aspinall\u2019s Halloween post below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The eye pokes suffered by Tom Aspinall at UFC 321 remains a touchy subject around the mixed martial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[139414,64,63,786,40762,785,139415,85,138947,1396],"class_list":{"0":"post-255464","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-aspinall-vs-gane-start-time","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-fighting","12":"tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","13":"tag-mma","14":"tag-preview-and-live-results","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-ufc-321-fight-card","17":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255464","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=255464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}