{"id":319986,"date":"2025-12-01T05:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T05:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/319986\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T05:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T05:54:11","slug":"tom-aspinall-briton-diagnosed-with-eye-condition-after-ufc-321-bout-with-ciryl-gane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/319986\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Aspinall: Briton diagnosed with eye condition after UFC 321 bout with Ciryl Gane"},"content":{"rendered":"

Specialist treatment is ongoing and Aspinall “not yet medically cleared for combat activity”.<\/p>\n

“Depending on clinical progression, targeted periocular [surrounding the eyeball] steroid injections or surgical intervention to address persistent motility [movement] impairment may be required if symptoms fail to resolve,” said the report.<\/p>\n

Earlier in November, veteran MMA referee Herb Dean said officials will look to more regularly enforce point deductions<\/a> for eye pokes after the Aspinall incident.<\/p>\n

Referee Jason Herzog elected to call the fight a no-contest, rather than disqualify Gane, 35, for the foul.<\/p>\n

Calling the fight a no-contest meant he deemed the foul accidental rather than intentional.<\/p>\n

A disqualification would have gone down as a win for Aspinall, who hopes get back into the cage with Gane when he has recovered.<\/p>\n

He added: “I’m obviously very keen, very keen to get back and beat this guy up. But I’ve got to be 100% right. So whenever the eye’s good to go, that’s when I’ll do it.”<\/p>\n

UFC gloves are fingerless and the promotion introduced redesigned gloves in June 2024 in an effort to reduce eye pokes, cuts and hand injuries.<\/p>\n

But in November 2024 they reverted back to the original style, which had not had a major redesign since becoming mandatory in 1997.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Specialist treatment is ongoing and Aspinall “not yet medically cleared for combat activity”. “Depending on clinical progression, targeted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-319986","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-fighting","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319986","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=319986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}