Tom Aspinall unleashed on Ciryl Gane after the former interim UFC heavyweight champion claimed he was still awaiting word on when he might be scheduled to compete again.<\/p>\n
Of course the first encounter between these two ended in disappointing fashion after Gane poked Aspinall in the eyes during the opening round in the UFC 321 main event. The foul was deemed unintentional by the referee but the eye poke left Aspinall unable to see and the fight was declared a no-contest after the stoppage.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, Gane posted a photo showing him back in training alongside fellow UFC heavyweight Tai Tuivasa with the caption \u201cStill no date or opponent yet\u2026 but we keep grinding and training hard before the holidays.\u201d<\/p>\n
That drew a fiery response from Aspinall, who has stated publicly that he\u2019s still dealing with the aftermath of the eye pokes, which is now leading him to surgery to repair the damage done.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo shit there\u2019s not a date yet,\u201d Aspinall wrote in Gane\u2019s comments on Instagram. \u201cI\u2019m not medically cleared to fight and about to have surgery thanks to your disgusting fingernails.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll be back to smash your face in soon you cheat.\u201d<\/p>\n
Obviously there\u2019s no love lost between these two as Aspinall continues to deal with vision problems after the eye pokes ended his first title defense as undisputed heavyweight champion.<\/p>\n
It was a long road back to action for Aspinall after he was supposed to unify the titles with Jon Jones, which kept him sidelined for the better part of a year waiting for that matchup to get finalized.<\/p>\n
Eventually, Jones decided he wasn\u2019t interested and he relinquished his title before announcing his retirement from the sport.<\/p>\n
Aspinall was then elevated to undisputed champion and booked for the fight against Gane in October but after an action-packed few minutes to open the heavyweight clash, the eye pokes ended the night early.<\/p>\n
Now Aspinall is headed for surgery with no timeline given on when he might be able to compete again but he clearly sounds motivated to go back and settle the score with Gane once he\u2019s cleared to fight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Aspinall unleashed on Ciryl Gane after the former interim UFC heavyweight champion claimed he was still awaiting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,701,638,82,640,702],"class_list":{"0":"post-350981","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-latest-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc","15":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350981","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=350981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}