No Bets Barred: The Tom Aspinall Era Arrives At UFC 321

MMA Fighting

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Sports News, Sports, News

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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The Tom Aspinall era is officially here. This Saturday, UFC 321 goes down in Abu Dhabi, headlined by the first undisputed title defense of Tom Aspinall, who takes on Ciryl Gane. On top of that, UFC 321 also features a vacant strawweight title fight between Virna Jandiroba and Mackenzie Dern, and No Bets Barred is here to break it all down. This week, host Jed Meshew is joined by Morning Kombat's Luke Noseda AKA Long Island Luke to take a look at all things UFC 321. Topics discussed include whether Aspinall can solidify his hold on the heavyweight division, if Dern can finally claim UFC gold, whether Umar Nurmagomedov can rebound from his first career loss or if Mario Bautista can pull off the major upset, the next step of The Climb, and more. Tune in for episode 141 of No Bets Barred. Follow Jed Meshew: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@JedKMeshew⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow Luke Noseda: ⁠⁠⁠⁠@MainCardMinute⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to MMA Fighting⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Check out our full video catalog⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Like MMA Fighting on Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow on Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Read More: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://www.mmafighting.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:20.4	Yeah. fly. What is up, y'all?
1:21.4	What is up, y'all?
1:21.4	We are back for another edition of No Betts Bar.
1:23.9	My name is Jed Mishu.
1:24.9	I'm a writer for M.Afighting.com, but you probably know that if you're listening.
1:29.5	And this week, it is back to the pay-per-view action. UFC 321 goes down at 2 p.m. Eastern time in Abu Dhabi.
1:40.0	It's one of the rare early ones. It's going to be terrific. And joining me this week to talk about things. At this point, I think you've just come to expect it. He is the man who joins me for all our pay-per-view events. Morning combat, main card minutes own. Luke, Noseeta, Long Island, Luke. How we doing? Jed, good to be back, as always. Pretty freaking hype for this card. Top to bottom, feel like we got a lot of fun fights on it, so excited to get into it. Yeah, man. I love, we're just talking a minute ago. I love the main card. The rest of it's, I liked more than when I went to dive into doing the gambling aspect of it. And then I was like,
2:18.3	yeah, I'm less interested in some of this prelim stuff. Not terrible. Before we do that,
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