{"id":129176,"date":"2025-09-08T16:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T16:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/129176\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T16:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T16:35:10","slug":"tom-aspinall-reacts-to-paris-press-conference-boos-just-loads-of-french-people-screaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/129176\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Aspinall reacts to Paris press conference boos: \u2018Just loads of French people screaming\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Tom Aspinall isn\u2019t sweating the negative reaction he received in Paris ahead of his title defense against France\u2019s own Ciryl Gane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The UFC 321 headliners recently took the stage at a press conference for the Oct. 25 pay-per-view and, unsurprisingly, Aspinall received a chilly reception as soon as he took the microphone. French fans booed lustily as Aspinall tried to speak, essentially forcing Aspinall to concede the floor to his opponent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Aspinall addressed the incident on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KiRT0SjXxjI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> channel, brushing it off as business as usual.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cIt was alright,\u201d Aspinall said. \u201cNothing special, was it? Just loads of French people screaming for Ciryl, which was to be expected. Kept it short and sweet, there\u2019s not a lot to say when every time you speak they just boo dead loud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">By the end of the UFC 321 press conference, Aspinall managed to get a few points in, including that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/ufc\/402475\/tom-aspinall-focused-solely-on-ciryl-gane-at-ufc-321-jon-jones-is-retired\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he was done talking about Jon Jones<\/a> and is focused solely on defending his heavyweight title against Gane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">No matter what Aspinall said, though, the large majority of fans in attendance didn\u2019t seem interested in hearing it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cA lot of booing,\u201d Aspinall said. \u201cI was expecting the booing. We\u2019re in Paris, aren\u2019t we, that\u2019s where\u2019s from, of course I\u2019m going to get booed. I ain\u2019t bothered. It\u2019s like a circus, isn\u2019t it? I\u2019m expecting that. \u2026 To be honest, I couldn\u2019t hear half of it. So after a bit I just started forgetting about the booing and just cracked on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Aspinall\u2019s father and coach Andy also weighed in on the incident, sounding glad that the Paris stop was over and done with.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThey just booed and it got a bit monotonous repeating everything, you have to do that, don\u2019t you?\u201d Andy said. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t make any difference to a fight. It\u2019s just one of those things that has to be done. Tick that box, move on to the next one. That\u2019s good, it\u2019s off Tom\u2019s to-do list.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Aspinall isn\u2019t sweating the negative reaction he received in Paris ahead of his title defense against France\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,701,638,82,640,702],"class_list":["post-129176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}