{"id":325396,"date":"2025-12-03T17:35:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T17:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/325396\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T17:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T17:35:12","slug":"tom-aspinall-calls-out-fcking-losers-critical-of-ufc-321-ending-dismisses-jon-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/325396\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Aspinall calls out \u2018f*cking losers\u2019 critical of UFC 321 ending, dismisses Jon Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom Aspinall is convinced anyone criticizing him for his disappointing UFC 321 title defense doesn\u2019t know what they\u2019re talking about.<\/p>\n

What was supposed to be a crowning moment for Aspinall – he was finally stepping into a main event as undisputed heavyweight champion with Jon Jones out of the picture – ended in disaster for him and opponent Ciryl Gane after Gane poked him in the eyes in the first round. Aspinall was unable to continue and the bout was ruled a no-contest, putting a damper on the Oct. 25 main event in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n

Aspinall has faced a torrent of criticism since from fans, fellow fighters, and even UFC CEO Dana White, and the negative sentiment has left him in disbelief.<\/p>\n

\u201cI realized, \u2018Oh, people genuinely think that I faked this,\u2019\u201d Aspinall told Uncrowned<\/a>. \u201cAnd then I was like, did people actually see the replay of what happened because that was a full-on eye poke. So then I was like, what is going on? Why are people thinking I\u2019m faking this after everything I\u2019ve been through to get there.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo then I left it quite a while and I thought, right, I\u2019ve got to get all the doctor\u2019s notes included. I\u2019ve been through it for loads and loads of tests for weeks. I\u2019ve literally been in the hospital two or three times a week getting tests. Then I come up with a doctor\u2019s report and people are like, \u2018He\u2019s f*cking crying about it. He\u2019s doing a media tour on it. He\u2019s milking it.\u2019 I\u2019m like, bro, if you don\u2019t believe the eye poke and you don\u2019t believe the doctor\u2019s report, what are we doing? What\u2019s going on here? I didn\u2019t make this shit up.<\/p>\n

\u201cGo watch the replay, check out the doctor reports. I\u2019m at the point where you just cannot please these guys. These guys are f*cking losers. These guys are just crazy haters who have got nothing good going on in their life, obviously. I\u2019ve still got a lot of fans. I wanted to keep my fans updated with what\u2019s going on and I appreciate everybody that\u2019s stuck by me.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a video posted earlier this week, Aspinall shared his thoughts on White\u2019s comments, saying he didn\u2019t continue fighting \u201cbecause I\u2019m not a f*cking dummy.\u201d<\/a> He told Uncrowned he hasn\u2019t spoken to White since UFC 321, but that he and White aren\u2019t on casual speaking terms anyway so he doesn\u2019t believe there\u2019s any issue between them.<\/p>\n

What has Aspinall particularly wound up is the suggestion that he wanted out of the fight just because Gane was faring well as the underdog challenger. The French heavyweight showed sharp striking against Aspinall as the two traded shots in Round 1. Aspinall wants to assure everyone that just because Gane landed a few good shots, he was nowhere close to panicking.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy nose is all good,\u201d Aspinall said addressing his bleeding in the fight. \u201cI broke my nose probably three or four times in my life. All my sparring partners know that you hit me in the nose, it\u2019s going to bleed. But the Gen Z – I don\u2019t even know if it\u2019s Gen Z, so I don\u2019t want to blame that generation – the kind of casual noob hater MMA fan that sees one bit of blood and think that guy\u2019s losing a fight, it\u2019s wild.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese people must think I\u2019m literally unstoppable just because I\u2019ve got a bloody nose I\u2019m losing a fight. I got hit with a couple of jabs and a couple of low kicks. You really think I got to this position having 30 MMA fights or whatever I\u2019ve had including my amateur career that if I get hit a couple of times in the nose I start looking for a way out? Come on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Would-be Aspinall rival Jon Jones has also had fun with the incident, changing his profile pick to a duck with an eye patch (a reference to Aspinall supporters accusing Jones of ducking a fight with Aspinall in recent years) and then later showing up to a Dirty Boxing event riding a horse sporting an eye patch.<\/p>\n

Even with the briefly retired Jones teasing a comeback at UFC White House next June, Aspinall has had enough of talking about the lost fight.<\/p>\n

\u201cGood for him,\u201d Aspinall said. \u201cI thought this guy was the GOAT. Focused on yourself, you\u2019re retired. Just do your own thing. If you\u2019re so much better than everybody else, just go and enjoy yourself. Don\u2019t worry about what I\u2019m doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI was trying to get a fight with him, I realize that\u2019s not going to happen,\u201d he added. \u201cJon\u2019s just doing some damage to himself out there, so I\u2019ll let him do his thing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Aspinall is convinced anyone criticizing him for his disappointing UFC 321 title defense doesn\u2019t know what they\u2019re…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-325396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325396","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=325396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}