{"id":553599,"date":"2026-03-20T21:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T21:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/553599\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T21:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T21:18:11","slug":"eddie-hearn-tom-aspinalls-ufc-contract-is-a-fcking-disgrace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/553599\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Hearn: Tom Aspinall\u2019s UFC contract \u2018is a f*cking disgrace\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Eddie Hearn believes Tom Aspinall has an awful UFC contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Hearn, who now serves as a representative of the UFC heavyweight champion, has been clashing with Dana White through the media for months now. As Aspinall prepares to make his return to the octagon, Hearn was asked about fighter pay in the UFC, and referenced Aspinall\u2019s current deal specifically.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI\u2019m going to bite my tongue a little bit, for now,\u201d Hearn told media members, (h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lBwZcJkNgvM&amp;t=3s\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pro Boxing Fans<\/a>). \u201cBut what I will tell you is his contract is a f*cking disgrace. Right? A disgrace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As of now, there\u2019s no timetable for a return for Aspinall following a no-contest in his most recent title defense against Ciryl Gane at UFC 321 this past October. The bout ended prematurely in the first round after Gane delivered a nasty eye poke to Aspinall, which the champ is still recovering from.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Aspinall now sits back and prepares to watch Gane face Alex Pereira for the interim heavyweight title at UFC White House in June. Hearn says Aspinall is excited to get back to action, but if he were the U.K. star, he wouldn\u2019t even takes the UFC\u2019s calls for a fight with the contract he\u2019s on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI cannot believe the money that he\u2019s on when you look at the commercial revenue that his fight would generate against a Pereira, or against a Gane in a rematch,\u201d Hearn explained. \u201cHonestly, if I\u2019m Tom Aspinall, I\u2019m looking at that contract, I go, \u2018I don\u2019t even think you should f*cking bother me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cBut he wants to come back. He wants to rematch Gane. He wants to fight Pereira. He wants to defend his world heavyweight title.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">UFC pay has been a topic of conversation for years now. While White, and the UFC and TKO brass continuously say pay is going up, many fighters have said otherwise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Knowing what he knows about Aspinall\u2019s deal, Hearn says there\u2019s a long way to go for the fighter pay to be up to par.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cBy the time you pay your tax and paid your team, there\u2019s no f*cking point in even fighting,\u201d Hearn said. \u201cEspecially when you\u2019ve had four operations after your eyes got gouged out.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eddie Hearn believes Tom Aspinall has an awful UFC contract. Hearn, who now serves as a representative of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553600,"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-553599","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\/553599","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=553599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}