Overview
- On the NoScripts podcast, Jon Jones said Tom Aspinall’s wrestling and jiu-jitsu are “incredibly overrated” and called him a one-trick pony with a “beautiful one-two.”
- Jones’ comments follow weeks of trolling over the UFC 321 ending, including a social avatar of a duck with an eye patch and a horse entrance with an eye patch at DBX 4.
- Aspinall remains under evaluation for vision issues after the double eye poke at 4:35 of Round 1, and the UFC plans to rebook the Gane fight once he is cleared.
- Veterans Bas Rutten and Alistair Overeem backed tougher sanctions for eye pokes, with Rutten proposing automatic pay deductions and Overeem arguing the foul should have been a disqualification.
- Official stats show a competitive opening exchange before the stoppage, with Ciryl Gane landing 30 significant strikes to Aspinall’s 27 and defending a takedown attempt.