Tom Aspinall's heavyweight title fight against Ciryl Gane at UFC 321 was stopped in the first round due to eye pokes, resulting in a no contest.
Gane insisted he did not intentionally poke Aspinall in the eye, saying:
I didn’t do it on purpose. I know what it is to have an eye poke because when I fought Derrick Lewis, I got an eye poke, and I was fighting two Derrick Lewis’s for a full round.
Aspinall was taken to hospital, and UFC CEO Dana White announced a rematch will be ordered.
Author's summary: Gane apologizes for eye poke incident.