{"id":255770,"date":"2025-11-02T02:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T02:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/255770\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T02:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T02:04:09","slug":"no-way-aspinalls-teammate-delivers-nasty-eye-poke-stills-gets-kod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/255770\/","title":{"rendered":"NO WAY?! Aspinall\u2019s Teammate Delivers Nasty Eye Poke, Stills Gets KO\u2019d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Things turned really weird earlier tonight (Sat., Nov. 1, 2025) at UFC Vegas 110 LIVE on ESPN+ from inside UFC Apex in Las Vegas, Nev., during a heavyweight co-main event between Tom Aspinall\u2019s teammate, Ante Delija, and Dominican striker, Waldo Cortes-Acosta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Maybe it\u2019s some leftover Halloween fright or the lamest trick every played on fight fans, but this entire fight was ruined by an eye poke. As if it wasn\u2019t bad enough to see Aspinall\u2019s recent title defense at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/latest-news\/398274\/video-tom-aspinall-catches-knuckle-deep-double-eye-poke-ufc-321-main-event-ends-in-no-contest-highlights-results-espn-ppv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC 321 go to waste from an eye poke<\/a>, now fight fans have to see his teammate go up in flames, too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Delija, who made a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-espn-plus-fight-pass-events-schedule-mma\/387475\/video-ufc-champion-tom-aspinall-tears-up-cageside-after-ante-delijas-debut-win-ufc-paris-results\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">huge splash in his UFC debut<\/a> with a knockout win over Marcin Tybura, looked good in the early going. It appeared the heavyweight newcomer was about to finish the fight before he landed an inadvertent eye poke amidst a flurry of punches. At first, it seemed like the referee had called the fight off due to the strikes, but upon further review it showed that Cortes-Acosta received a finger in the eye and the referee was just calling a pause to the action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Once Cortes-Acosta was able to recover the commission allowed him to continue due to replay evidence and no signs of a concussion. Good thing they did because Cortes-Acosta unleashed all hell on Delija once the fight resumed. Cortes-Acosta uncorked a vicious right hand that toppled Delija to the canvas, prompting \u201cSalsa Boy\u201d to move in for the fight-ending combination. It was unbelievable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Check out the pesky eye poke and incredible comeback knockout below!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For complete UFC Vegas 110 results, coverage, and highlights click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-live-stream-watch-free\/398901\/ufc-vegas-110-results-highlights-garcia-vs-onama\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-espn-plus-fight-pass-events-schedule-mma\/400090\/shut-the-f-k-up-feisty-dana-white-defends-lackluster-ufc-vegas-110-card-video#comments\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Things turned really weird earlier tonight (Sat., Nov. 1, 2025) at UFC Vegas 110 LIVE on ESPN+ from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,37644,702,7788,9468],"class_list":["post-255770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-on-espn-fight-night","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-results","tag-ufc-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255770","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=255770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}