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UFC commentator Joe Rogan has defended UFC heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall against critics of his eye injury.
Ever since his fight against Ciryl Gane, Tom Aspinall has been getting a lot of hate online. One of the big reasons for that is that some felt as if he ‘quit’ the fight, implying that he was exaggerating his eye injuries that came as a result of repeated eye pokes from Gane.
Given that he’s now had multiple surgeries on his eyes, you would have to imagine that Aspinall legitimately couldn’t see, making the decision to stop fighting a pretty good one.
In a recent episode of his podcast, Joe Rogan defended Aspinall.
Rogan defends Aspinall against critics
“He got a bad deal,” Rogan said. “He 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’s defending the heavyweight title. He’s defending the heavyweight title. He gets poked in the eyes and he can’t f*cking see and he’s had two eye surgeries since then.”
“I just hate that fans reacted the way they reacted – and it’s the casual ones, it’s the s**theads,” Rogan said. “For me, I was like, ‘God, you’ve got give the guy some grace. He got his eye poked out.’ He literally was knuckle-deep in his eyes.
“For anyone to think that he should be fighting with one eye like that, ‘Who cares? Keep fighting,’ that’s insane. He got fouled. It’s not because of a punch, it’s not because he got kicked or an elbow, it’s a foul. So no, the fight should have been stopped the way it was and everybody should understand that. It’s not his fault. It was his opponent’s fault.”
Quotes via MMA Fighting
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