{"id":29843,"date":"2025-07-22T23:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T23:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/29843\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T23:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T23:30:11","slug":"dana-whites-breaking-news-tom-aspinall-vs-ciryl-gane-booked-for-ufc-321-in-abu-dhabi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/29843\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White\u2019s breaking news: Tom Aspinall vs. Ciryl Gane booked for UFC 321 in Abu Dhabi"},"content":{"rendered":"

A much-needed Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Heavyweight title fight is headed to the Middle East.<\/p>\n

Newly appointed undisputed Heavyweight champion<\/a> Tom Aspinall will make his first defense against two-time title challenger and former interim title holder Ciryl Gane on Sat., Oct. 25, 2025, at UFC 321, which goes down inside Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi, UAE.<\/p>\n

UFC CEO Dana White announced the news today.<\/p>\n

\"UFC<\/p>\n

Photo by Jeff Bottari\/Zuffa LLC<\/p>\n

After more than a year on the sidelines, and countless mind games<\/a> from former UFC champion Jon Jones, Aspinall (15-3) will finally get back to work<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 32-year-old fighter from England was last in action against Curtis Blaydes at UFC 304<\/a>, finishing him in one minute (watch highlights<\/a>). Before that, he claimed the interim title by knocking out Sergei Pavlovich in 69 seconds inside Madison Square Garden (highlights)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Aspianll holds a 100 percent finish rate with all but one fight (against Andrei Arlovski) ending in the first round.<\/p>\n

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Photo by Jeff Bottari\/Zuffa LLC<\/p>\n

Gane (13-2) was last in action in the final PPV of 2024, winning a very controversial split decision against Alexander Volkov (details<\/a>). Prior to that, he stopped Serghei Spivac in his seventh main event at UFC Paris (watch highlights<\/a>).<\/p>\n

UFC 320 will mark Gane\u2019s third attempt at UFC undisputed Heavyweight gold. He lost his last two title fights against Francis Ngannou and Jones (watch highlights<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Two other fights have been announced for UFC 321, including a No. 1 contender Heavyweight fight between Jailton Almeida and the aforementioned Volkov<\/a>, and Aleksandar Rakic vs. Azamat Murzakanov.<\/p>\n

To checkout UFC\u2019s upcoming schedule of events click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A much-needed Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Heavyweight title fight is headed to the Middle East. Newly appointed undisputed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[25231,25227,25230,16993,4,450,25228,10529,25226,25232,2101,424,25229,451,417,829,25233,3,419,23876,452,453,6493,25234,10080,5462,333],"class_list":["post-29843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-abu","tag-aspinall","tag-booked","tag-breaking","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-ciryl","tag-com","tag-dana","tag-dhabi","tag-for","tag-front-page","tag-gane","tag-headlines","tag-in","tag-latest-news","tag-mmamania","tag-news","tag-s","tag-tom","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-fight-announcements","tag-ufc-news","tag-vs","tag-white"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}