{"id":146966,"date":"2025-10-27T00:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T00:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/146966\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T00:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T00:13:08","slug":"apsinall-v-gane-ufc-heavyweight-champion-tom-apsinall-requires-tests-on-eye-back-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/146966\/","title":{"rendered":"Apsinall v Gane: UFC heavyweight champion Tom Apsinall requires tests on eye back in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"

UFC heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall requires further tests on his eye after his title defence at UFC 321 against Ciryl Gane ended as a no contest.<\/b><\/p>\n

Gane accidentally poked the Briton in both eyes while attempting a punch late in the first round of their headline contest in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n

Aspinall was unable to continue, telling referee Jason Herzog “I can’t see”, and it was waved off as a no contest<\/a> with the Mancunian retaining his belt.<\/p>\n

He was taken to hospital after the fight and did not appear for the post-fight news conference.<\/p>\n

The 32-year-old suffered a serious knee injury<\/a> in 2022 – tearing his medial collateral ligament (MCL) and his meniscus, and sustaining damage to his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) – and spent a year in recovery after surgery.<\/p>\n

“It’s a dangerous sport,” Aspinall said in a video posted to his YouTube channel.<\/p>\n

“It’s way scarier than what I did to my knee. With your knee, you know it’s going to be alright but you don’t know how it’s going to be with your eye.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall requires further tests on his eye after his title defence at UFC 321…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-146966","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115443243601649758","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}