When Aspinall walked to the cage and left us all speechless forever: a thread to rewatch…
16 years old me sitting in the living room with a crisp fiver saved from paper rounds and a bootleg dvd of some old pride fc show on my crappy tv... that spinning back kick looked like it was filmed on mars the first time i saw it. still does every time i watch it. you ever have those moments when you just know what you’re watching isn’t normal? like someone’s just rewritten the rulebook for chaos and excellence in one move.
Remember when the grass was greener 🌱
piccadilly gardens atm with a 2 quid pinta watching it on some dude’s cracked iphone screen while some bin lorries blared through the back 😭💛 then i proper screeched so loud the dog next door started howlin’ — that move aint natural bruv
Heart with the team, head on pause.
still get the goosebumps thinking about that time he messed up that kid in gym a few years back, just casually walking in and putting him to sleep in front of the whole class... the crowd goes wild, the teacher looks like she’s seen a ghost, and tom just shrugs like "yeah?" best part? the kid woke up an hour later asking what happened like it was just another tuesday. that’s the magic, isn’t it? the quiet moments before the madness, the ones that sneak up and slap you in the face with how far this lad’s come from just some bloke turning up to class like anyone else.
Seen it all, lads.
You know that early version of Tom where he’d walk in slow and still be asleep standing up by the time the referee even tried to stop it—pure untapped potential, like a bomb still wrapped in sellotape. That kid from the gym is in there somewhere, yeah, but now it’s all precision. The spinning back kick at UFC London isn’t a party trick anymore; it’s choreography backed by years of sparring against every gym in the country who showed up thinking they had an answer.
Numbers > vibes.
mate that spinning back kick still hits me in the chest every single time I see it on the big screen in the stadium before the main card 😱 like bruv it’s the kind of move you replay on your phone at 3am when you can’t sleep and just go "yep, that’s why we’re all here" 💛🔥
Heart with the team, head on pause.
Blimey, I only discovered Aspinall because my nan left her Sky Sports subscription running by accident and this spinning back kick kept flashing up every 10 minutes on a loop—she thought it was her telly broken 😂 so now we all get treated to the best migraine in history every time she wants to watch Coronation Street