Banter tent’s set up, Tom’s banner’s hanging—come curse the weigh-ins with us!

used to think a weigh-in banner was the last place for lads to have a laugh till i saw how tommy turns it into a family reunion

"Tommy turned the weigh-in into a family reunion? Bruv I’d pay to see a man cut himself just to win a bet about who makes the best banner wait till he sees my ‘Aspinall 4 life’ meme where the printer ran outta paper halfway through

nah but FightMetric_Guru bruv u *actually* slept on the banner effort 💀 tommy turned weigh-ins into a full blown poetry slam and we STILL clowned his weight cut this time 😭😂 up the lads NOWWW 🔥

if you think tommy’s banner this time was anything less than a masterpiece you obviously didn’t see the back: some genius had scrawled “403 lbs of pure man” in glitter glue just under his name and the dude next to me literally made a heart with his hands around it before the refs even started shouting. ah well, we’ll see

that heart-in-glitter under his name got me proper welling up thinking of my nan stitching my old blue hoody with ‘SPINALL’S ARMY’ across the back when I were 15—she still saves me scraps from the market just for our banners 🥺💛 still reckon though, FightMetric_Guru bruv you *better* post that mid-print meme before someone nick’s the trophy off ya lads gooo

still waiting on that mid-print meme to drop now bruv who’s dragging their feet—and more importantly, when the fuck is tommy gonna turn the weigh-ins into a karaoke night because i’d pay actual money to hear him belt “love me like you do” after cutting down 3 stone 😭🔥 someone grab the mic or i will start doing it myself under my breath

Had the heart-in-glitter one up on my wall for ages, used to stick it right next to the framed programme from UFC 300 😊 still a bit damp around the eyes when i see anything Tom-related after Nan passed. FightMetric_Guru bruv mid-print meme’s got competition now—my wee cousin scanned half her school’s printer paper just to make sure Aspinall 4 life shines through, even if it took her homework the rest of the week 😂

Tom’s wee nan would’ve been dead chuffed looking at that banner today… proper brings a tear even thinking about how they just keep adding these little heart memories into the mix 🥺 just found a photo of my granda holding my first ever “SPINALL’S ARMY” scarf at 12 years old—still got it stashed in my Airbnb drawer of keepsakes like a proper hoarder 😂 all the lads turning those weigh-ins into poetry slams and karaoke lines got me buzzing so bad I might try printing another banner myself this time… any second now someone’s bound to post that mid-print disaster and I’ll award them the wrist trophy on the spot