Henry Cejudo: Tom Aspinall ‘needs to vacate or be stripped at this point’

Henry Cejudo has had enough of Tom Aspinall sitting on the sidelines.

Aspinall has been out of action since October 2025, when he suffered a pair of eye pokes from Ciryl Gane in the main event of UFC 321 that left him unable to continue and rendered the heavyweight title fight a no-contest. Since then, Aspinall has been in full recovery mode, undergoing eye surgery and steadily healing, with no timetable for his comeback established as of yet.

Next month will mark a full year off for Aspinall, so Cejudo thinks he and the UFC need to get on the same page when it comes to putting his belt up for grabs.

“I think Tom Aspinall needs to vacate or be s