UFC 321 Recap: Aspinall vs Gane Eye Poke Ends Fight | HW Cursed - video Dailymotion

Peter Klein

UFC 321 delivered chaos! Veteran combat sports commentator Peter Klein breaks down the devastating eye poke ending to Tom Aspinall vs Ciryl Gane, celebrates Mackenzie Dern's championship win, and explains why the UFC heavyweight division is absolutely CURSED.  🥊 UFC HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE: CURSED Tom Aspinall finally became the undisputed champion after Jon Jones retired via a YouTube video. Everyone's hyped - Aspinall's been knocking everyone out, gets his big moment, and... eye poke. Fight over. Peter's take: "The heavyweight championship is CURSED. That's the only explanation."  The Curse Timeline: Francis Ngannou vacates → Jon Jones wins, doesn't defend for 2 years → Jones beats Stipe, retires → Aspinall's first defense ends via eye poke Ciryl Gane went "two knuckles deep" into Aspinall's eyeball ending the fight. End of PPV, everyone's hyped, then THIS. Francis must've put an Etsy hex on that belt!  🏆 MACKENZIE DERN: CHAMPION Dern finally reached her potential! Hyped prospect who plateaued repeatedly - would look ready to break through, then wouldn't. Rollercoaster career. Now she's put it together. Not the most complete fighter, but what she does well, she does at an ELITE level. Huge accomplishment at UFC 321!  💬 Is the heavyweight division cursed? Drop your take! 👍 LIKE if you're frustrated! 🔔 SUBSCRIBE for UFC coverage!  #UFC #UFC321 #TomAspinall #CirylGane #MackenzieD ern #MMA #UFCHeavyweight #EyePoke  🎧 Listen on: Apple https://apple.co/49NGm2L | Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3QgazeHcSKSteZbBIubcuM?si=icY7NEBvT7yZadv_JFlT6Q  💬 Follow for live breakdowns: X.com/primetimepk | Twitch.tv/primetimepk  | Kick.com/primetimepk  🔗 Support the Show:   - Tip Jar: https://streamelements.com/couchpotatodiary/tip (fuels more content!)   - Partners: C of Dead http://cofdead403.ca/ | Swift Energy https://www.swiftenergy.gg/?ref=mriusnqm PROMO CODE: PKPrimetime for 25% Off!

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00:00We were finally free. We were finally out of the clutches of John Jones's oppressive heavyweight championship run.

00:07Tom Aspinall, knocking everybody out, now had his opportunity as the undisputed champion of the UFC's heavyweight division.

00:16So obviously, everything went perfect and swimmingly, right? Maybe not.

00:20UFC 321 went down Saturday afternoon in the main event, a highly anticipated heavyweight championship bout,

00:33with Tom Aspinall finally named the undisputed heavyweight championship,

00:37claiming that throne in a way that everyone dreams of,

00:40by way of a retirement on social media and being handed it in a video on YouTube.

00:44He defended the title against Cyril Ghosn, and it ended very quickly,

00:49as Cyril Ghosn channeling his inner Captain Insano, or whatever the guy's name was from Happy Gilmore,

00:56as he went two knucks deep into the eyeball of Tom Aspinall ending the fight.

01:01I can only come to the conclusion that the heavyweight championship of the UFC is cursed.

01:07That's the only thing you can come to the conclusion of with this.

01:11You have Jon Jones come in, win, first of all, first of all, the UFC goes on an 18-month contract negotiation,

01:23basically spending the whole time telling Francis Ngannou to go blank himself.

01:28And he vacates the title.

01:30Jon Jones comes in.

01:31We get the moment we've all waited for.

01:33Jon Jones in the heavyweight division, and he dominates.

01:37And so now, it's this new, exciting era in Jon Jones' career, in the heavyweight division,

01:41and then he doesn't defend the title for, like, a couple of years.

01:44And then he faces Stipe Miocic for 15 minutes, spinning back kick to the guts, down he goes,

01:50and then he's never to be seen from again.

01:52And so we vacate the title.

01:54Tom Aspinall gets it.

01:55He has been knocking everyone out.

01:56He finally gets this opportunity.

01:58Big stage, pay-per-view, and...

02:01eye poke.

02:01And, fittingly, I got something in my eye.

02:03While that is happening.

02:04See, I can't even talk about the heavyweight division without there being a problem with it.

02:08To have all of this play out since Francis Ngannou,

02:13there's no other way to describe it other than cursed.

02:16They, like, Francis put some kind of a hex on that championship as he was leaving.

02:21Maybe he got one of those Etsy witches.

02:23And just, heavyweight, crown, no more.

02:27It has to be cursed.

02:29There's no other way.

02:29It sucks, because, like, this was an interesting matchup.

02:33I didn't give a whole lot of thought to Gon maybe having a chance to win.

02:39Looked fine in the moments we had.

02:41But I don't think that, like, we have to roll this one back.

02:46It just, the timing of it sucks, too.

02:47Like, it's, at the end of a pay-per-view, I've had a few decisions in a row.

02:51End of a pay-per-view, fight that we're all excited for, and then this happens.

02:55It just, bleh.

02:57Ugh.

02:57It just sucked.

02:58So, again, cursed.

02:59Cursed is the only way you can describe any of this with the heavyweight division.

03:03There was one title fight, at least, that went the distance.

03:06Mackenzie Dern, reaching her potential.

03:07She is a champion in the Ultimate Fighting Championship.

03:11She was someone who was very hyped as a prospect.

03:15There was a lot of buzz about her coming in.

03:17And, like, she has obvious skills and obvious talents and high level in those.

03:22It was just, okay, can she round out the rest of it?

03:24And then she plateaued.

03:26Like, she was able to buzzsaw through who she was able to buzzsaw through, but there

03:30was a ceiling that she hit.

03:32And she kept bumping up against it, and it wasn't really happening.

03:34And then it looked like it would, and then it wouldn't.

03:36And then it looked like a baby, and then it wouldn't.

03:37And now she's been able to put it together, and now she's a champion.

03:42Is she the most complete fighter in the Ultimate Fighting Championship?

03:46She is not.

03:47But the things that she does, well, she does at an elite high level, and it makes it very

03:54concerning for the rest of the fighters there.

03:56Now, there's an obvious game plan to get around it, but she makes it difficult to get

04:00to that one.

04:01So, a huge shout-out to Mackenzie Dern, who finally reaches her potential as a UFC champion

04:08winning her fight at UFC 321.

04:11Otherwise, I mean, like, there are some noteworthy wins, and we'll get to those as the week goes

04:16on here, but not the most exciting of cards.

04:19It was a mid-afternoon one on a day where there's World Series baseball, college football,

04:25LSU's firing coaches, stuff like that.

04:26So, it was a difficult day to stand out anyway, and a difficult card to kind of stand out on

04:33a couple of weeks after you already had a pay-per-view.

04:35So, it was a weird spot, weird ending to it, but Mackenzie Dern kind of becomes the highlight

04:40of the show as she finds her way into championship gold with the Ultimate Fighting Championship.

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