{"id":321342,"date":"2025-12-02T21:50:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T21:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/321342\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T21:50:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T21:50:14","slug":"aspinall-says-he-may-need-surgery-on-both-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/321342\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspinall says he may need surgery on both eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall is still far from a return to the Octagon after suffering an eye injury in his title fight against Ciryl Gane in October.<\/p>\n<p>Aspinall couldn&#8217;t continue after receiving a double eye poke in the first round of the UFC 321 main event on Oct. 25 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The bout was ruled a no-contest.<\/p>\n<p>Aspinall said Tuesday on &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/arielhelwani\/status\/1995937300434547069\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Ariel Helwani Show<\/a>&#8221; that he isn&#8217;t cleared to train yet and is dealing with lingering symptoms from the poke, including double vision and dizziness.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obviously, I want to get back as soon as possible,&#8221; Aspinall said. &#8220;That&#8217;s the plan. But I&#8217;m also aware that with eyes, you gotta be careful. They don&#8217;t really know when I&#8217;m gonna be back at the moment. I&#8217;m still not even cleared to train or do anything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Aspinall added that doctors have said he may need to undergo surgery on both eyes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re talking about doing surgery on both eyes,&#8221; Aspinall said. &#8220;They&#8217;re talking about injections. I have to get an injection in the eyeball soon. So, I&#8217;m not looking forward to that. I don&#8217;t really know at this point. I don&#8217;t know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The UFC plans to schedule a rematch between Aspinall and Gane as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Aspinall made his first undisputed title defense against Gane. The 32-year-old Englishman was promoted to heavyweight champion in June when Jon Jones retired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall is still far from a return to the Octagon after suffering an eye&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-321342","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\/321342","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=321342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}