Tom Aspinall admitted that his relationships with fans deteriorated after he refused to continue the title fight with Ciryl Gane due to an eye poke
“I think because of my success, my record, the fact that I finish fights very quickly—if I don't finish an opponent in the first minute, people think I look terrible. But no—we are just evenly matched and it’s a competitive fight. I haven't even really hit him properly yet. Overall, I always had a good relationship with the fans, but now the situation has changed. Although there is a lot of good, it's not all bad. It just made me more thick-skinned,” Aspinall said in an interview with Paddy Pimblett.
