Tom Aspinall Vs. Ciryl Gane Predictions

Tom Aspinall faces Ciryl Gane this weekend at UFC 321, as pros picked their winner. 

Aspinall became the full champion after Jon Jones vacated the belt, making this his first defense. Aspinall has three stoppage wins on the spin since breaking his leg against Curtis Blaydes in 2022. His wins include Marcin Tybura, Sergei Pavlovich and Curtis Blaydes in July 2024. Meanwhile, Gane has also gotten victories over Serghei Spivac and Alexander Volkov in his last two fights. Those wins were the perfect response following his loss to Jon Jones. Here is how the pros saw the fight playing out.

Predictions

"I think Tom Aspinall blitzes straight through Ciryl Gane to be quite honest,” the Australian MMA superstar said on his YouTube channel. “Whether it’s a takedown or even with the strikes. Unless you catch him [Aspinall] coming in, he’s bulldozing you. You need to try and catch Aspinall coming in and I just can’t see that happening. “It’s going to be a win for Tom Aspinall . I think he’s a heavy favourite," Alexander Volkanovski

"I’m pretty sure that Aspinall beats Gane,” Almeida revealed to Helwani on a recent podcast recording. It seems like Gane has other priorities in his life right now. Once you’re fighting at this level there can’t be no other priority. If you’re fighting at this level, if you’re fighting for the heavyweight crown of the UFC, you have to be all in, and it doesn’t seem like that’s the case for Gane right now. “I get it that he’s taking it because who’s not going to take another title fight for the heavyweight belt? But I think his priorities are in a different place now," Jailton Almeida

"Both of them are good. Ciryl Gane, he’s really good with his movement, with his legs and everything. He’s not so bad at grappling now. He started working a lot on his grappling and his ground skills, so I think it’s 50-50. “It depends how the fight starts, how both of them will be prepared for this fight. I saw that Gane will be motivated a lot for this fight to get the belt. It’s 50-50, but on paper, when I fought both of them, Tom Aspinall looks better. “But in the fight, it could go either way," Alexander Volkov

"This is a bad match-up for Ciryl Gane. The advantages Ciryl has against most heavyweights, he doesn’t have against Tom. Tom also has the punching power and ground game to beat him. I think Tom is going to clean his clog. I think it’s going to be one sided,” Dan Hardy

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