For the second consecutive week, a promising UFC main event was curtailed early because of a fluke injury to one of the fighters. This one, though, was even harder to take than last week’s featherweight bout between Yair Rodriguez and Brian Ortega because it didn’t even get a chance to get going.
Heavyweight Tom Aspinall suffered an injury to his right knee after kicking Curtis Blaydes and stepping back as Blaydes fired a punch at him. When Aspinall took a step back, something gave in his knee and he shrieked in pain. Referee Herb Dean stopped it at 15 seconds in the first round.