Tom Aspinall is diagnosed with rare eye condition a month on from Cyril Gane eye poke in UFC heavyweight title defence

UFC heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall has been diagnosed with rare eye condition Brown's syndrome following his title defence against Cyril Gane in October.

Aspinall retained his UFC heavyweight title via no contest in an anticlimactic end to the main event at UFC 321 that saw the Brit struggling to see and rushed to hospital.

After four minutes of the first round of the fight in Abu Dhabi, as Aspinall attempted a kick, Gane went at his rival with a punch and invertedly raked his fingers across his eyes. A five-minute timeout ensued, and the doctor stepped in.

Aspinall was spotted telling the doctor: 'I can't see,' with the doctor himself telling the referee that he had 'no immediate concerns about the globe'.

After four minutes of the five allocated, however, the fight was waved off as a no-contest.

Now, after extensive testing, Aspinall has shared a medical report to his Instagram page, which states has has been suffering with double vision, reduced eye motility, visual function and a substantial field loss.

'Depending on clinical progression, targeted periocular steroid injections or surgical intervention to address persistent motility impairment may be required if symptoms fail to resolve,' the report read.

 Aspinall said on his YouTube channel: 'We've got to see how it goes over the next few weeks. I'm not in the gym training at the moment.

'I'm not doing anything MMA wise at the moment. I'm just following the doctor's orders right now.'

He added that he is keen to get back in the cage for a rematch with Gane, but only when he is fit to do so. 

In a video showing the 32-year-old's trip to hospital after the fight, the angry champions said: 'All that training for that,' he said. 'What the f*** is he doing?

'He got warned twice before it. Twice before it he got warned for it and he f***ing did it again.'

Gane, however, said: 'I didn't do it on purpose. I know what it's like to have an eye poke, because when I fought Derrick Lewis, I got an eye poke and I was seeing two of Derrick Lewis for a full round.

'During a bit of the round and the rest of the round, I saw two of Derrick Lewis. So I'm not going to say, he's a liar.'

Aspinall, who was sat with his eye strapped up, added: 'I could feel how deep it was in my eye. It feels like the back of my eyeball is hurting. It feels like someone's touched the back of my eyeball.