10/29/2025
UFC veteran Chael Sonnen calls out the officiating following UFC 321. He said a foul should be a foul regardless of intent. He explained:
“Tom Aspinall should have won that fight via DQ. He was hit with multiple illegal shots to the face, multiple eye pokes, and the reason he didn’t win via DQ is because the referee determined those weren’t intentional. Because it’s unintentional, it’s a no contest, which is fine; it’s semantics because Tom keeps the belt either way. But if we started to penalize fighters for illegal fouls the first time they occur -- not the third time, not after multiple warnings -- you would stop seeing them. And if the opponent who was hit with the illegal foul can’t continue, that should be a DQ. End of story. Enough of the accidental, intentional nonsense.”
