{"id":739954,"date":"2026-06-16T10:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T10:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/739954\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T10:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T10:35:08","slug":"tom-aspinall-ready-for-september-ufc-return-against-ciryl-gane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/739954\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Aspinall ready for September UFC return against Ciryl Gane"},"content":{"rendered":"

UFC heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall says he will be ready to face Frenchman Ciryl Gane in an undisputed title fight in Paris in September.<\/p>\n

Aspinall is recovering from an eye injury and watched as Gane got the better of Alex Pereira for the interim heavyweight title at Sunday’s UFC Freedom 250<\/a> at the White House.<\/p>\n

Although not mentioning Aspinall by name after the win, Gane, 36, has made it clear he is ready for a rematch and the Briton has called for that fight to happen in France.<\/p>\n

“Paris in September? I’ll do that,” said Aspinall. “I’ll go to Paris. Let me know. I’ll be there.”<\/p>\n

Last October’s first fight<\/a> between the pair was deemed a no contest because of repeated eye pokes from Gane which left Aspinall unable to continue.<\/p>\n

The Briton underwent surgery<\/a> in February after suffering damage to both eyes but said in May that he was back in non-contact training.<\/p>\n

Aspinall called Gane a “cheater”<\/a> after that bout and has now criticised Gane’s use of elbows in his win over Pereira.<\/p>\n

Gane dropped Pereira with a left hand before appearing to land elbows to the back of the Brazilian’s head, which is illegal in MMA, although referee Herb Dean did not call any foul.<\/p>\n

The second-round stoppage at the event,<\/a> which took place on US President Donald Trump’s 80th birthday, ended Pereira’s hopes of becoming the UFC’s first three-division champion.<\/p>\n

“[The elbows] look a bit illegal,” said the 33-year-old. “They look very illegal. What is going on? Dropped him with a jab and he’s swinging now trying to finish him.<\/p>\n

“He looked good. I have to watch that again. Looked like there was a lot of illegal elbows going on. Illegal punches but generally he looked good.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall says he will be ready to face Frenchman Ciryl Gane in an undisputed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":739955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-739954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739954","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=739954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}