Chael Sonnen seems convinced that Tom Aspinall should've kept fighting despite getting poked in the eye by Ciryl Gane at UFC 321. MMA legend Matt Brown, however, finds this take ludicrous.For context, the heavyweight title fight between Aspinall and Gane came to a premature end in the first round this past weekend, as it was ruled a no-contest after the Briton was unable to continue after an eye-poke.Sonnen, for one, believes that as the champion, Aspinall should've soldiered through the inconvenience and kept on fighting. Serving his analyst duties for ESPN, the former three-time UFC title challenger said:"Being poked in the eye is illegal, but to fight with one eye is very common. The opponent is trying to hit your eye; he is trying to bust up and make your nose bleed. So that part of it does have questions... We are trying to be polite, we are trying to show grace, but in all fairness, if you are the heavyweight champion of the world, you've got to fight with one eye at times."Safe to say, Brown doesn't agree with Sonnen's take, and took to X to note his surprise:"Man, this is some wild s**t to say!"Check out Chael Sonnen's comments and Matt Brown's response below:A post-fight medical examination confirmed that Aspinall had suffered no long-term damage from the foul. However, the heavyweight kingpin has been advised to undergo a follow-up eye examination in a week.Chael Sonnen clears the air on his comments on Tom AspinallIt seems, as harsh as Chael Sonnen's words sounded, his comments on ESPN were less a direct attack on Tom Aspinall and more a general critique about pushing through adversity. Speaking on a recent episode of The Ariel Helwani Show, the 48-year-old came clean on his remarks.During the segment, he claimed that he didn't sense any immediate urgency to stop the fight, based on Aspinall's reaction. Doubling down on his point, Sonnen referenced a debilitating injury from a recent UFC event:"Kevin Holland, as recently as a week ago, never should have got up from that nutshot... He sustained a brief injury... Tom had said, 'I was poked in the eye and I can't see'. As opposed to, 'I was poked in the eye. I am in dire pain. Something's wrong. I've got to get to the back. I have to get to a doctor.'... One guy is trying to swell up your eye or cause some blood to get in there to affect your vision; you've got to push through that. That was the tone that we were speaking of, not that actual moment with Tom... but we did not think that Tom found a way out or was ducking out." [6:28 minutes into the interview]