{"id":520720,"date":"2026-03-05T17:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T17:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/520720\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T17:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T17:22:08","slug":"ufc-champ-tom-aspinall-announces-hes-back-to-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/520720\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC champ Tom Aspinall announces he\u2019s \u2018back to business\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Tom Aspinall is getting \u201cback to business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Here\u2019s the Instagram post from Aspinall:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Hopefully he\u2019s not the pilot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Aspinall, who turns 33 in just a few weeks, is 8-1 under the UFC banner with one No Contest. It will be interesting to see what matchmakers have planned for 2026, as Jones vs. Pereira would give Aspinall the chance to rematch Gane. Or they could go straight to Jones vs. Aspinall and let Pereira fight Gane for the next heavyweight title shot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Aspinall is getting \u201cback to business.\u201d Here\u2019s the Instagram post from Aspinall: Hopefully he\u2019s not the pilot.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[139414,64,63,786,40762,785,139415,85,138947,1396,125620,1647],"class_list":["post-520720","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-news","tag-ufc-white-house-2026","tag-upcoming-ufc-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520720","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=520720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}