{"id":240299,"date":"2025-10-26T00:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T00:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/240299\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T00:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T00:46:08","slug":"dana-white-reacts-to-tom-aspinall-vs-ciryl-gane-ending-in-a-no-contest-at-ufc-321-he-looked-damn-good-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/240299\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White reacts to Tom Aspinall vs. Ciryl Gane ending in a No Contest at UFC 321: \u201cHe looked damn good tonight\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dana White shared his immediate reaction to today\u2019s Tom Aspinall vs. Ciryl Gane result during the UFC 321 post-fight press conference.<\/p>\n

Aspinall (15-3 MMA) and Gane (13-2 MMA) squared off for the promotion<\/a>\u2018s undisputed heavyweight title this afternoon in Abu Dhabi. It was a highly anticipated contest, but unfortunately for fight fans and everyone involved, the bout ended in disaster.<\/p>\n

After putting forth a strong opening few minutes in his third effort to claim undisputed status, which included busting up Aspinall\u2019s nose, \u2018Bom Gamin\u2019 accidently struck the Brit with a double eye poke (see that here<\/a>). That accidental foul ultimately rendered Tom Aspinall unable to continue, and the fight was called off and ruled a No Contest.<\/p>\n

\"Tom<\/p>\n

It was an extremely disappointing result, and one that had a pair of fellow fighters calling for the UFC to \u201cmake heavyweight great again<\/a>\u201d following the ruling.<\/p>\n

During today\u2019s post-fight press conference, UFC CEO Dana White shared his thoughts on the result, and informed fight fans that he plans on booking a rematch between Tom Aspinall and Ciryl Gane as soon as possible.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel the (same) way everybody feels. Great showing, shitty ending. I think that after the Jones fight, a lot of people wrote Ciryl Gane off. But he looked damn good tonight. It looked like we were in for a few rounds, and it was going to be a good fight. I think that because of the Jon Jones fight, I think everybody was sleeping on Ciryl Gane and kind of wrote him off.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked about Tom Aspinall\u2019s decision to not continue fighting after enduring the foul, White shared the following sentiments:<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t make people fight. If I want to put together a fight, I can\u2019t make people fight. You definitely can\u2019t make somebody continue if they feel they\u2019ve been injured. Only Tom knows what happened. Could he see? Couldn\u2019t he see? Could he continue? Only he knows that.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for an immediate rematch between Aspinall and Gane, that is definitely what Dana White has planned:<\/p>\n

\u201cTotal pain in the ass but yes [we will book the rematch]. They\u2019re both in shape, other than whatever\u2019s wrong with his eye. Both guys are not injured. So, as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stay tuned to BJPENN.com for further UFC 321 updates as they become available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dana White shared his immediate reaction to today\u2019s Tom Aspinall vs. Ciryl Gane result during the UFC 321…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-240299","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240299","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=240299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}