{"id":242276,"date":"2025-10-26T23:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T23:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/242276\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T23:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T23:20:07","slug":"jim-miller-blasts-ufc-eye-pokes-its-not-the-gloves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/242276\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Miller blasts UFC eye pokes: \u2018It\u2019s not the gloves\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall retained his title against Ciryl Gane in the main event of UFC 321<\/a> last night (Sat., Oct. 25, 2025) after their bout was ruled a no-contest<\/a> when Aspinall was unable to continue following a nasty eye poke<\/a> inside Etihad Arena on \u201cFight Island\u201d in Abu Dhabi (watch it<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Every single week, there\u2019s at least one eye poke inside the Octagon, and the problem isn\u2019t getting any better. But according to Jim Miller \u2014 who has fought 43 times in the UFC<\/a> without ever poking anyone in the eye \u2014 it\u2019s not the gloves. It\u2019s the fighters.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou wanna know a secret? I\u2019ve got hours inside the Octagon wearing these gloves, it\u2019s not the gloves,\u201d Miller said on his Instagram in February. \u201cLook, I can close my fist, I can bend the ends of my fingers without the glove even moving, so if it was the glove that held my hand open, I could still [bend my fingers]. But most of these eye pokes are [from fighters straighening their fingers], my hand is not getting held open like that, are you f\u2014king kidding me?<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat causes the eye pokes is the little bitch inside that\u2019s being passive and avoiding the fight and not being aggressive,\u201d Miller added. \u201cAnd that little voice needs to get punished by an immediate point being taken away, and in my opinion, a portion of the purse, and then I think you would see them stop, real quick.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s rare for a referee to immediately take a point for an eye poke, but Miller makes a great point \u2014 and it\u2019s something MMA fans (and this writer) have been saying for years: automatic point deductions would fix most of these fouls overnight.<\/p>\n

Seems like an easy fix \u2026 yet somehow, it\u2019s still one of the hardest things in the sport to get right.<\/p>\n

For complete UFC 321 results, coverage and highlights click HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall retained his title against Ciryl Gane in the main event…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[109793,49,48,641,33601,638,109794,82,109474,702,7788,3194],"class_list":["post-242276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-aspinall-vs-gane-start-time","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-preview-and-live-results","tag-sports","tag-ufc-321-fight-card","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-results","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242276","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=242276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}