ABU DHABI — UFC 321 ended in frustration when an accidental eye poke from Ciryl Gane left heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall unable to continue, prompting a No Contest at 4:35 of Round 1 and a chorus of boos the champ quickly answered from inside the cage.
At the post-fight press conference, UFC CEO Dana White summed up the night bluntly.
“I feel the way everybody feels. Great showing, shitty ending,” White said. “After the Jon Jones fight, a lot of people wrote Ciryl Gane off. He looked damn good tonight. It looked like we were in for a few rounds.