{"id":320064,"date":"2025-12-01T06:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T06:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/320064\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T06:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T06:50:07","slug":"mixed-martial-arts-aspinall-diagnosed-with-rare-eye-condition-after-gane-poke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/320064\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Martial Arts-Aspinall diagnosed with rare eye condition after Gane poke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Dec 1 &#8211; Briton Tom Aspinall said he has been diagnosed with Brown\u2019s syndrome in both eyes and is not cleared to fight after an accidental eye poke ended his UFC heavyweight title defence against Ciryl Gane in a no-contest in October.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Aspinall posted a medical report on his Instagram account on Sunday showcasing he is having double vision, reduced eye motility, visual function and a substantial field loss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">&#8220;Depending on clinical progression, targeted periocular steroid injections or surgical intervention to address persistent motility impairment may be required if symptoms fail to resolve,&#8221; the report showed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Brown&#8217;s syndrome is a rare eye condition where one eye has trouble moving upward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve got to see how it goes over the next few weeks. I&#8217;m not in the gym training at the moment,&#8221; the 32-year-old Englishman said in a video posted on his YouTube channel on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">&#8220;I&#8217;m not doing anything MMA wise at the moment. I&#8217;m just following the doctor&#8217;s orders right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Aspinall said he is eager to get back into the cage with Gane and will do so when he is declared fit: &#8220;I&#8217;ve got to be 100% right. So whenever the eye&#8217;s good to go, that&#8217;s when I&#8217;ll do it.&#8221; REUTERS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec 1 &#8211; Briton Tom Aspinall said he has been diagnosed with Brown\u2019s syndrome in both eyes and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-320064","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\/320064","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=320064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}