{"id":387378,"date":"2026-01-02T18:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T18:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/387378\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T18:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T18:46:07","slug":"joe-rogan-suggests-ufc-champ-tom-aspinall-might-not-ever-fight-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/387378\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Rogan suggests UFC champ Tom Aspinall \u2018might not ever fight again\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe Tom Aspinall-Ciryl Gane thing was a f*cking disaster,\u201d Rogan said on his \u201cExperience\u201d podcast<\/a>. \u201cI mean, that\u2019s a disaster. Tom Aspinall still can\u2019t see. He\u2019s got a f*cked-up right eyeball still. The reality is he might not ever fight again. Like, who knows? If he has surgery on his eye, and it doesn\u2019t go well and he can\u2019t see out of the eye \u2026 apparently he\u2019s still f*cked up in his right eye. There\u2019s some tendon damage or something. Eyes are so tricky, you never know.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cUnless you\u2019re a complete psychopath like Michael Bisping, who fought 11 fights in the UFC blind in one eye, which is so crazy that he did that,\u201d Rogan added. \u201cI hope Tom gets back in because again, we don\u2019t really know what\u2019s going on with his eye. And for all the critics, you need to know this: The right eye, that\u2019s the problem, but if you look at when he fought, his left eye, the finger went deeper in his left eye than it did his right eye. So if you think he\u2019s faking it, he was knuckle-deep in that f*cking left eye. It\u2019s horrible to see.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 32 year-old Aspinall spent more than a year on the sidelines waiting for Jon Jones, who eventually vacated his title and retired from competition<\/a>. No word yet on how the promotion plans to handle the heavyweight title picture but an interim strap may be in order to keep the assembly line moving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Tom Aspinall-Ciryl Gane thing was a f*cking disaster,\u201d Rogan said on his \u201cExperience\u201d podcast. \u201cI mean, that\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[139414,64,63,786,40762,785,139415,85,138947,102865,1396],"class_list":["post-387378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-aspinall-vs-gane-start-time","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-preview-and-live-results","tag-sports","tag-ufc-321-fight-card","tag-ufc-medical-suspensions","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387378","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=387378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}