UFC 321
Mixed martial arts event in 2025
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UFC 321: Aspinall vs. Gane was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that took place on October 25, 2025, at the Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.[2]
| UFC 321: Aspinall vs. Gane | ||||
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The poster for UFC 321: Aspinall vs. Gane | ||||
| Promotion | Ultimate Fighting Championship | |||
| Date | October 25, 2025 | |||
| Venue | Etihad Arena | |||
| City | Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | |||
| Attendance | 13,220[1] | |||
| Total gate | Not announced[1] | |||
| Event chronology | ||||
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Background
The event marked the promotion's 22nd visit to Abu Dhabi and first since UFC on ABC: Whittaker vs. de Ridder in July 2025.[2]
A UFC Heavyweight Championship bout between current champion Tom Aspinall and former interim champion Ciryl Gane headlined the event.[3]
A UFC Women's Strawweight Championship bout for the vacant title between former Invicta FC Strawweight Champion Virna Jandiroba and Mackenzie Dern took place in the co-main event. Current two-time champion Zhang Weili vacated her title in order to challenge for the UFC Women's Flyweight Championship.[4] The pairing previously met at UFC 256 in December 2020 which Dern won by unanimous decision.[5]
A bantamweight bout between former UFC Bantamweight Championship challenger Umar Nurmagomedov and Mario Bautista took place at this event.[6] They were originally reported to be competing in the main event of UFC Fight Night: de Ridder vs. Allen one week prior but were moved to this event for unknown reasons.[7]
Abdul-Kareem Al-Selwady and Matheus Camilo were expected to meet in a lightweight bout on the preliminary card, but Al-Selwady pulled out less than 48 hours before the event and the pairing was scrapped.[8][9]
At the weigh-ins, two fighters missed weight:[10]
- Jose Miguel Delgado weighed in at 147 pounds, one pound over the featherweight non-title fight limit.
- Azat Maksum weighed in at 129 pounds, three pounds over the flyweight non-title fight limit.
Delgado and Maksum's bouts proceeded at catchweight. Both fighters were fined a percentage of their individual purses which went to their opponents Nathaniel Wood (20 percent) and Mitch Raposo (30 percent), respectively.[10]
Results
| Main card | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weight class | Method | Round | Time | Notes | |||
| Heavyweight | Tom Aspinall (c) | vs. | Ciryl Gane | NC (accidental eye poke) | 1 | 4:35 | [a] |
| Women's Strawweight | Mackenzie Dern | def. | Virna Jandiroba | Decision (unanimous) (48–47, 48–47, 49–46) | 5 | 5:00 | [b] |
| Bantamweight | Umar Nurmagomedov | def. | Mario Bautista | Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Heavyweight | Alexander Volkov | def. | Jailton Almeida | Decision (split) (28–29, 29–28, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Light Heavyweight | Azamat Murzakanov | def. | Aleksandar Rakić | TKO (punches) | 1 | 3:11 | |
| Preliminary card (ESPN+ / Disney+ / FX) | |||||||
| Lightweight | Quillan Salkilld | def. | Nasrat Haqparast | KO (head kick) | 1 | 2:30 | |
| Middleweight | Ikram Aliskerov | def. | Park Jun-yong | Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Lightweight | Ľudovít Klein | def. | Mateusz Rębecki | Decision (majority) (29–28, 28–27, 28–28) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Heavyweight | Valter Walker | def. | Louie Sutherland | Submission (heel hook) | 1 | 1:24 | |
| Catchweight (147 lb) | Nathaniel Wood | def. | Jose Miguel Delgado | Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 29–28, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Heavyweight | Hamdy Abdelwahab | def. | Chris Barnett | Decision (unanimous) (29–26, 29–27, 29–27) | 3 | 5:00 | [c] |
| Catchweight (129 lb) | Mitch Raposo | def. | Azat Maksum | Decision (unanimous) (30–26, 29–27, 29–27) | 3 | 5:00 | [d] |
| Women's Strawweight | Mizuki Inoue | def. | Jaqueline Amorim | Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | |
- For the UFC Heavyweight Championship. Accidental eye poke rendered Aspinall unable to continue.
- For the vacant UFC Women's Strawweight Championship.
- Abdelwahab was deducted one point in round 1 due to an illegal elbow to back of the head.
- Maksum was deducted one point in round 3 due to grabbing the fence.
Bonus awards
The following fighters received $50,000 bonuses.[12]
- Fight of the Night: Ľudovít Klein vs. Mateusz Rębecki
- Performance of the Night: Quillan Salkilld and Valter Walker
