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UFC commentator Joe Rogan isn\u2019t a fan of how critics have gone after Tom Aspinall following his fight against Ciryl Gane.<\/p>\n
In the main event of UFC 321, Tom Aspinall\u2019s bout with Ciryl Gane went to a no contest after a double eye poke rendered Tom unable to continue. Despite him going on to have surgery to fix the injuries he sustained, Aspinall still received a lot of criticism from the mixed martial arts community with many believing he quit.<\/p>\n
Of course, the extreme nature of Tom Aspinall\u2019s injuries would have made it pretty irresponsible for him to carry on competing. Alas, that hasn\u2019t stopped the narrative from being written, and it will likely continue as we approach their seemingly inevitable rematch.<\/p>\n
In a recent episode of his podcast, Joe Rogan discussed the Tom Aspinall issue with the great Rico Verhoeven.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe got a bad deal,\u201d Rogan said. \u201cHe got really f*cked over for that fight. The way people got upset at him for stopping the fight with those eye pokes, to me that drove me crazy. What do you expect the guy to do? He\u2019s defending the heavyweight title. He\u2019s defending the heavyweight title. He gets poked in the eyes and he can\u2019t f*cking see and he\u2019s had two eye surgeries since then.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI just hate that fans reacted the way they reacted \u2013 and it\u2019s the casual ones, it\u2019s the s**theads,\u201d Rogan said. \u201cFor me, I was like, \u2018God, you\u2019ve got give the guy some grace. He got his eye poked out.\u2019 He literally was knuckle-deep in his eyes.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor anyone to think that he should be fighting with one eye like that, \u2018Who cares? Keep fighting,\u2019 that\u2019s insane. He got fouled. It\u2019s not because of a punch, it\u2019s not because he got kicked or an elbow, it\u2019s a foul. So no, the fight should have been stopped the way it was and everybody should understand that. It\u2019s not his fault. It was his opponent\u2019s fault.\u201d Quotes via MMA Fighting<\/p>\n
Get ready, fight fans, because the next chapter of this story will soon be written.<\/p>\n