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Tom Aspinall's bad luck continues. UFC 321 was meant to mend a long period of inactivity for the new undisputed heavyweight champion. Instead, an accidental eye poke brought Saturday's main event with Ciryl Gane to a frustrating end.

Aspinall, who graduated to undisputed champion after Jon Jones vacated the title in June, was looking forward to an active title reign after being benched for most of the last two years. On Saturday, things got off to a rough start and only got worse. Challenger Gane overdelivered as an underdog, getting the better of Aspinall in the first round. Aspinall never got the chance to get going after an errant eye poke in the final 30 seconds rendered Aspinall unable to compete, leading to a no contest.

Saturday's pay-per-view also crowned a new women's strawweight champion. Mackenzie Dern, empowered by her daughter cagside, cinched her second win over Virna Jandiroba to win the title vacated by Zhang Weili.

Plus, Umar Nurmagomedov may not have put together the dominant showing that UFC CEO Dana White wanted, but he did pick up an important win over Mario Bautista. Nurmagomedov had to navigate some troubled waters with Bautista attempting a deep submission early and then leading a big knee late. But the prodigy of cousin Khabib Nurmagomedov did just that in a unanimous decision in which he swept the judges' scorecards. He likely awaits the winner of champion Merab Dvalishvili and Petr Yan after they meet in December.

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UFC 321 card, fight results

  • Tom Aspinall (c) vs. Ciryl Gane ends in no contest due to accidental eye poke
  • Mackenzie Dern (c) def. Virna Jandiroba via unanimous decision (48-47, 48-47, 49-46)
  • Umar Nurmagomedov def. Mario Bautista via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
  • Alexander Volkov def. Jailton Almeida via split decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28)
  • Azamat Murzakanov def. Aleksandar Rakic via first-round TKO (punches)
  • Quillan Salkilld def. Nasrat Haqparast via first-round knockout (head kick)
  • Ikram Aliskerov def. Jun Yong Park via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
  • Ludovit Klein def. Mateusz Rebecki via majority decision (29-28, 28-27, 28-28)
  • Valter Walker def. Louie Sutherland via first-round submission (heel hook)
  • Nathaniel Wood def. Jose Delgado via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
  • Hamdy Abdelwahab def. Chris Barnett via unanimous decision (29-26, 29-27, 29-27)
  • Mitch Raposo def Azat Maksum via unanimous decision (30-26, 29-27, 29-27)
  • Mizuki def. Jaqueline Amorim via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 29-28)

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