Jim Miller has zero tolerance for what Ciryl Gane did at UFC 321.<\/p>\n
This past Saturday, Gane challenged Tom Aspinall for the heavyweight title in the main event of UFC 321 in Abu Dhabi, looking good early before poking Aspinall in the eyes in the first round, resulting in a no-contest. The result angered and disappointed fans and fighters, but perhaps no one was more animated about what happened than future UFC Hall of Famer Jim Miller, who took to social media on Sunday to rage against the entire fiasco.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am very agitated, and I think you know exactly where this is going,\u201d Miller said in an Instagram post. \u201cI\u2019m going to share two screenshots of the unified MMA rules at the end of this, and you tell me what the f*ck is going on. \u2026 If only, if only stupid, dumb, professional MMA fighters could control our fingers, right?<\/p>\n
\u201cEye gouging, eye poking, is a foul. And if that foul is done with intention, then the fighter that commits the foul gets disqualified if the fight can\u2019t continue. In most cases, there\u2019s some silly sh*t in there as well. But it is up to the referee, and probably the commission on the side of the octagon, to decide whether it was intentional or not. And it never seems to be f*cking intentional.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve had my vision permanently affected by eye pokes. It doesn\u2019t affect my ability to fight or see anything close, really. It\u2019s more quality of life stuff \u2014 it\u2019s much harder to see a target with my bow nowadays. Boo hoo. [But] the only way we\u2019re going to stop this thing is if the fighters that are committing the foul actually end up getting punished for the foul. That\u2019s the only way this is going to stop. It\u2019s not a glove issue; it is an issue of culture and the fighters.\u201d<\/p>\n
In support of Miller\u2019s point, much of the backlash to the UFC 321 incident has been leveled at Aspinall for declaring himself unable to continue. While Miller is angry about Gane fouling Aspinall, huge portions of the MMA fanbase \u2014 including fellow fighters and UFC CEO Dana White \u2014 have been critical of the heavyweight champion<\/a> for not continuing<\/a>, which frustrates Miller.<\/p>\n \u201cThe person who was poked in the eye is always the p*ssy, is always the bad guy, is always the loser for not choosing to continue,\u201d Miller said. \u201cIt\u2019s never the person that commits the foul that gets looked at in a negative light, no. They\u2019re never punished. No, no, no. It\u2019s the other p*ssy that decides, \u2018Hey, I can\u2019t f*cking see, now. And now I\u2019m the bad guy, for telling the doctors that I can\u2019t see because my opponent couldn\u2019t close his fist.\u2019 This aggravates me, clearly. The refs have had the power to stop this for years, and they have chosen not to.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve known a lot of you for a long f*cking time, and I believe there are a lot of good people that are associated with this sport, but this is nonsense. It is absolute f*cking nonsense. Points get taken away way quicker for groin shots! We have quality protectors on the market; there are high-quality f*cking cups on the market. I\u2019ve been lifted off the ground wearing a metal Thai cup with nothing, didn\u2019t feel nothing, and the other person is moving. The eye poke stuff is all on the person who throws the eye poke. All of it. That\u2019s easy! It\u2019s f*cking easy!\u201d<\/p>\n Miller is currently the longest-tenured UFC fighter and holds several records in the promotion, most notably as the man with the most fights and most wins in UFC history (46 and 27, respectively). And as Miller noted, despite having nearly 7 and a half hours of octagon time, he hasn\u2019t had any issue with repeatedly fouling his opponents, so if he can do it, everyone else can, too.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve shared the list before,\u201d Miller said. \u201cI\u2019ve shared the list of the guys who have been in the octagon the longest, and none of them have poked somebody in the eye. None of them! If we spent the most time in the octagon, throwing punches at opponents at the highest level of the sport, shouldn\u2019t there be some eye pokes coming from guys like myself or Frankie [Edgar], or [Raphael] dos Anjos, or Clay [Guida], or all these other guys? Shouldn\u2019t that be the way it goes? The more time you spend doing this, the more eye pokes you have because they\u2019re incidental? They\u2019re just part of the sport? It\u2019s not. It\u2019s not a f*cking accident! It\u2019s not a f*cking accident. You can control it. All you have to f*cking do is penalize the motherf*cker that\u2019s doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n Ouch. \u2018All that training for that\u2019<\/a>: Tom Aspinall\u2019s backstage reaction to UFC 321 eye poke incident.<\/p>\n Rematch. Dana White reacts to \u2018sh*tty ending\u2019<\/a> of Tom Aspinall vs. Ciryl Gane at UFC 321, plans for rematch.<\/p>\n Fiasco. Ciryl Gane reacts to eye poke fiasco against Tom Aspinall at UFC 321: \u2018This is the sport.\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n Troll. Jon Jones trolls Tom Aspinall<\/a> after UFC 321 flop, sends message to Alex Pereira.<\/p>\n Rude. UFC veterans question if Tom Aspinall could have continued at UFC 321: \u2018You\u2019ve got to fight with one eye at times.\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n 115. Mackenzie Dern wanted a finish at UFC 321, \u2018so no one could say anything\u2019<\/a> about her title win.<\/p>\n