Big Tom is finally coming back.<\/p>\n
Eight months after Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall suffered a gruesome eye injury<\/a> against Ciryl Gane in the main event of UFC 321<\/a>, the English champion is back in full training and already eyeing his return.<\/p>\n Aspinall announced his return to full training on social media, while also revealing a new recovery podcast that he filmed over the past few months.<\/p>\n \u201cBack in full training for the Ciryl Gane fight, and we\u2019re currently in talks with the UFC,\u201d Aspinall wrote. \u201cWe filmed The Inner Game during my recovery between February and March, and those conversations genuinely helped me through a tough time. These episodes will be coming out over the next 12 weeks while I\u2019m in camp. Hope you enjoy Episode 1.\u201d<\/p>\n With UFC\u2019s numbered event schedule booked out until August, it would make plenty of sense for the promotion to target UFC 333 for Aspinall vs. Gane 2. That event is expected to go down in Abu Dhabi, which just so happens to be the exact location where Aspinall\u2019s nightmare began.<\/p>\n Aspinall previously agreed to rematch Gane<\/a> at UFC Paris in September, but because that event is not a numbered pay-per-view, it is hard to imagine UFC placing such a massive Heavyweight title fight there.<\/p>\n Nevertheless, Aspinall has been rock solid inside the Octagon, racking up eight UFC wins with seven first-round finishes. As for Gane, he enters the rematch as the interim Heavyweight champion after knocking out Alex Pereira at UFC Freedom 250<\/a> (watch highlights<\/a>)<\/p>\n The Heavyweight division has been stuck in limbo for months.<\/p>\n Now, it finally feels like things are starting to move again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Big Tom is finally coming back. Eight months after Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall suffered…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,179146,355513],"class_list":["post-760293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-on-paramount","tag-ufc-mma-social-media-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760293","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=760293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}