post-fight press conference<\/a>, White was asked for an update on Aspinall\u2019s status. The UFC boss had quite the response.<\/p>\n\u201cOh Jesus,\u201d White said. \u201cDon\u2019t let me talk about Tom Aspinall\u2019s eye. Apparently, he\u2019s going in for his second surgery or just had it. By surgery, I mean injections. I have no idea. Get a quote from him. God [expletive] forbid I say something about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
There\u2019s no word on when Aspinall will be cleared to return to action. White and the UFC brass were hoping to quickly rebook Aspinall vs. Gane, but the status of the heavyweight champion remains unclear.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s been tough sledding at the top of the UFC heavyweight division. There was the holdup when UFC attempted to book a title unification bout between Jon Jones and Aspinall, but it never materialized. Now, the holdup is due to Aspinall\u2019s aforementioned eye problems.<\/p>\n
The division continues trucking along. During the UFC 324 card this past Saturday, Waldo Cortes-Acosta scored a second-round TKO finish over Derrick Lewis. The No. 5-ranked UFC heavyweight could be a future opponent for both Aspinall and Gane if the stars align.<\/p>\n
Do you think the relationship between Dana White and Tom Aspinall has soured? Tell us in the comment section below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dana White was asked for an update on Tom Aspinall\u2019s eye and his response was humorous. Aspinall is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-438426","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\/438426","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=438426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}