Some might have predicted a first-round stoppage when Tom Aspinall and Ciryl Gane met in the main event of UFC 321 in Abu Dhabi on Saturday, but no one could have foreseen the stoppage being because of an incidental eye poke . It was, to be frank, a bummer to see Aspinall's highly anticipated first title defense end in a no contest after a main card that already had placed a new champion atop the strawweight division , a likely No. 1 contender in the men's bantamweight division and had hinted at the next challenger for the winner of Aspinall vs. Gane.

The UFC 321 headliner will almost certainly be rescheduled immediately -- maybe even this year -- but would it have ever happened in the first place if the UFC hadn't spent so much time pairing Jon Jones with Stipe Miocic in 2023

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