{"id":266119,"date":"2025-11-06T08:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T08:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/266119\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T08:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T08:28:09","slug":"jon-jones-critiques-tom-aspinalls-ufc-321-performance-he-couldnt-touch-cyril-gane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/266119\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Jones critiques Tom Aspinall\u2019s UFC 321 performance: \u2018He couldn\u2019t touch Cyril Gane\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aspinall has faced an unprecedented wave of criticism after his UFC 321<\/a> bout versus Ciryl Gane, the first attempted defense of his newly undisputed Heavyweight title. Not only has Aspinall been panned for failing to continue<\/a> fighting after a nasty eye poke (see here)<\/a>, but the performance itself wasn\u2019t up to Aspinall\u2019s usual standard of mauling his opponents in the very first exchange<\/a>. Instead, Gane and Aspinall traded punches for most of the first round, and Aspinall ended up with a bloody nose before the abbreviated finish.<\/p>\n

Unsurprisingly, \u201cBones\u201d isn\u2019t particularly empathetic. He\u2019s already made fun of Aspinall in regards to the eye poke, but now Jones is offering his thoughts on Aspinall\u2019s performance as a whole. According to Jones, Aspinall the few minutes that he did fight Gane demonstrated a limited fighter who struggled to hit his foe cleanly.<\/p>\n

\u201cTom\u2019s a great athlete, but I do feel like he\u2019s a one-trick pony,\u201d Jones said on \u201cNoScripts Podcast\u201d<\/a> (via MMA Junkie<\/a>). \u201cI believe that his wrestling and jiu-jitsu is incredibly overrated. He has a beautiful 1-2. I got to learn a lot about his patterns in his last fight. That\u2019s really about it. That\u2019s the one thing that he\u2019s setting up real nice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jones continued, \u201cHe couldn\u2019t touch Ciryl Gane at all, that\u2019s the way I felt. I felt Gane was just getting warmed up. Gane\u2019s hands was down, he was shaking his shoulders, bouncing around, touching him \u2013 he was so comfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n

The real shame of UFC 321 is that the main event was shaping up to be such a great fight. We were seeing more of Aspinall\u2019s game than usual, and we might have even got a look at his gas tank in the later rounds if the fight continued on. Instead, Aspinall remains fairly unknowable, as his overall UFC fight time is still shockingly small for an active champion.<\/p>\n

As for Jones, he\u2019s currently begging for a chance<\/a> to fight Alex Pereira at the UFC White House event next summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aspinall has faced an unprecedented wave of criticism after his UFC 321 bout versus Ciryl Gane, the first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266120,"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-266119","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\/266119","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=266119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}