{"id":273784,"date":"2025-11-10T07:57:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T07:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/273784\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T07:57:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T07:57:11","slug":"jon-jones-makes-shocking-tom-aspinall-admission-after-ufc-321-sports-news-blitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/273784\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Jones makes shocking Tom Aspinall admission after UFC 321 \u2014 Sports News Blitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Jon Jones was not impressed with Tom Aspinall\u2019s performance against Ciryl Gane before the eye poke that the Englishman endured prematurely ended the bout at UFC 321 just under a fortnight ago, on October 25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Here, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesportsnewsblitz.com\/about-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sports News Blitz<\/a>\u2019s Niall Togher breaks down Jones\u2019 comments and what they could mean for the heavyweight division moving forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sqsrte-large\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Aspinall\u2019s title defence ends in controversy<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">After being forced to sit on the sidelines for more than a year after a fight with Jon Jones never materialised, Aspinall was keen to kick off his reign as undisputed UFC heavyweight champion with a bang against Gane.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Unfortunately, this was not to be the case after an eye poke from Gane meant Aspinall was unable to continue, and the bout was ruled a no-contest after four minutes and 35 seconds of the first round had elapsed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Before the foul, the fight was closer than many anticipated, with Gane able to evade the bulk of Aspinall\u2019s power shots and land some clean jabs from the outside, with one strike in particular busting up the nose of the champion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jon Jones was not impressed with Tom Aspinall\u2019s performance against Ciryl Gane before the eye poke that the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-273784","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\/273784","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=273784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}