{"id":36743,"date":"2026-02-11T00:39:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T00:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/After-Double-Eye-Surgery-UFC-Champ-Tom-Aspinall-Working-Toward-Fighting-Fitness-200092"},"modified":"2026-02-11T00:39:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T00:39:20","slug":"after-double-eye-surgery-ufc-champ-tom-aspinall-working-toward-fighting-fitness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/after-double-eye-surgery-ufc-champ-tom-aspinall-working-toward-fighting-fitness\/","title":{"rendered":"After Double Eye Surgery, UFC Champ Tom Aspinall Working Toward \u2018Fighting Fitness\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/after-double-eye-surgery-ufc-champ-tom-aspinall-working-toward-fighting-fitness.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Tom-Aspinall-65231\">Tom<br \/>\nAspinall<\/a> remains on the road to recovery after undergoing<br \/>\nsurgery on both eyes.<\/p>\n<p>The medical team that performed the procedure shared an update on<br \/>\nthe <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/organizations\/Ultimate-Fighting-Championship-2\"><br \/>\nUFC<\/a> heavyweight champion\u2019s condition on Tuesday via Instagram.<br \/>\nLate last year, Aspinall revealed he would need to undergo surgery<br \/>\nafter being poked in both eyes by <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Ciryl-Gane-293973\">Ciryl Gane<\/a><br \/>\nin their title bout at <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/events\/UFC-321-Oct-25-108759\">UFC<br \/>\n321<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"adViAi\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \u201cAfter his highly publicized eye poke injury, Optegra\u2019s expert team<br \/>\nis proud to have supported MMA fighter and UFC heavyweight champion<br \/>\n<a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Tom-Aspinall-65231\">Tom<br \/>\nAspinall<\/a>,\u201d the post read. \u201cOver recent months, we\u2019ve been<br \/>\nworking closely with him on his recovery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing his operation on both eyes we continue the journey to<br \/>\nget Tom\u2019s vision back to fighting fitness.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Uncertain Timetable<\/h2>\n<p>Aspinall has dealt with vision issues since UFC 321 and earlier<br \/>\nthis year shared that he was diagnosed with traumatic bilateral<br \/>\nBrown\u2019s syndrome, a condition which makes it difficult for an<br \/>\nindividual to move their eye freely in all directions.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old Brit was unable to continue following the fouls,<br \/>\nresulting in the bout vs. Gane being ruled a no contest at the 4:35<br \/>\nmark of Round 1. It is currently unclear when Aspinall will be<br \/>\ncleared to compete again, but a rematch is expected to be booked<br \/>\nonce he is fully healthy.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DUlp9jRD7bz\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" readability=\"-0.25925925925926\"><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Aspinall remains on the road to recovery after undergoing surgery on both eyes. The medical team that performed the procedure shared an update on the UFC heavyweight champion\u2019s condition on Tuesday via Instagram. Late last year, Aspinall revealed he would need to undergo surgery after being poked in both eyes by Ciryl Gane in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36744,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-martial-arts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}