The UFC has a poking problem, even with fancy new gloves.
Former middleweight champion Chris Weidman was nine-balling right in front of Bruno Silva at the UFC Atlantic City mixed martial arts event in New Jersey over the weekend. Not only did this put a premature end to the 185-pound relationship, but it also damaged 30 percent of Silva's vision.
“[Weidman] “I was stabbed in both eyes and tests showed that I had lost 30 percent of my vision in one eye,” Silva told MMA Fighting. “But the doctors don't think it's permanent and think it will come back soon. I have to go there again next week for tests.”
Or perhaps Brazilian players are being too dramatic in their quest for appeal.
“Obviously, I’m not going to poke him in the eye, but I also wonder what he’s going to turn this into,” Weidman told The MMA Hour. “MMA is a tough sport. You get the referee's attention and tell him you were hit in the eye and you kept falling and trying to get it, and then you go back to the replay and you're like, did you really get hit in the eye? That's a bad precedent. I think.
“Whenever your finger touches the eye, he has the right to say it poked the eye and he gets five minutes, or whatever time he has now. Also, as a fighter, not bad Then you have to think, okay, it's okay. He poked me in the eye, it looked bad, but you blinked once or twice and boom, you're okay. I once got hit knuckle-deep in the eye in a bad sparring match. That's totally different. None of the shots were that bad.”
UFC middleweight “Action Man” Chris Curtis, who will fight in “Sin City” against Brendan Allen at UFC Vegas 90 this weekend, doesn't understand why some fighters are so prone to fouls and is a habitual offender. suggests that you are dirty…or just plain stupid.
Like his long-time rival Nasouddin Imavov (Probably because of this).
“Oh my god, he's the dirtiest (expletive) guy I've ever fought,” Curtis said at UFC Vegas 90 media day. “I've played 41 fights and I don't think I've ever been called for an eye poke, I don't think I've ever headbutted someone, I've never kicked someone down. How do I do this in a row like usual?
“Oh my god, it's just one of those things where you're either dirty or stupid. I don't know which you would choose, but Jesus, I can go most of my career without gouging people in the eye or headbutting them, but he does this in every match, so you know, what the fuck? ?”
Top welterweight contender Joaquin Buckley has an even better idea.
“I never felt like I needed new gloves,” Buckley wrote. twitter. “These midfielders just close their hands, it's that simple. Are you an idiot or are you an idiot (lol)”
It might be time to borrow some of that “Bellator technology.”
