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Ciryl Gane speaks with John Gooden backstage at UFC 321 after his heavyweight title fight vs. Tom Aspinall ended in a no contest due to an accidental eye poke.

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Sir, first of all, thank you so much for

for stopping by. Super difficult moment.

Can I get your immediate reaction,

please?

Uh, I don't know exactly. Just

disappointed. We put a lot of energy,

like I say, and uh I'm just sorry

because uh at first for me, but also for

the people for everybody.

This is uh the the the the love of this

part sometime this happening. I remember

uh

uh this happening also for myself. It's

like that. It's like that.

For people that didn't see the buildup

to this fight, all the programs etc.,

can you just let people know the kind of

investment and the commitment you made

to preparing for this fight?

Uh yeah, that's why I'm a little bit

disappointed because of the energy, the

sacrifice, all of this and unfortunately

this happening. uh

if if there are no tissue he win or I

win like okay this is a but like that no

I'm I'm not happy about this uh about

this

you did have 3 minutes or so in the

octagon with Tom Aspenol caused some

damage you know from your thoughts

you've been in there you felt him a

little bit like what what what did you

learn uh it was beautiful it was a

beautiful fight this is exactly what I

expected from So

uh exactly what I expected for myself

also. We did very well. I think I'm

going to I'm going to watch that. But uh

yeah,

you and you and Tom Aspenol have been

linked for four, five, five, six years

now. Is this still going to happen

again? We we have to rebook this.

Correct.

Yeah, we we will see. We will see. We

will see. Yeah. Yeah. Is there a time

that you would or would not like to have

this rematch? Is it as soon as possible?

January, February, March. What do you

think?

We will see. I don't have the the the

good answer, brother.

Sorry.

Well, if you can uh go and enjoy some

recuperation. Wish you all the best. I'm

sorry it ended that way.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Okay. Take care of yourself.