Tom Aspinall, the UFC heavyweight champion, believes the promotion should have disqualified Ciryl Gane for constant eye pokes.
“All this training for this. What the hell is he doing? He was already warned twice before this. And he did it again. How was he not disqualified after that? People started booing me, as if it was my fault. I trained for fourteen months and got poked in the eye. Believe me, I didn’t want anyone’s finger so deep in my eye. That’s the last thing I wanted,” said the UFC heavyweight champion.