Tom Aspinall nonetheless has no imaginative and prescient in his proper eye three days after sustaining an damage throughout his title defence at UFC 321, says the heavyweight champion’s father.
Cyril Gane unintentionally poked the Briton in each eyes whereas making an attempt a punch late within the first spherical of Saturday’s essential occasion in Abu Dhabi.
Aspinall was unable to proceed and retained his belt because the battle was waved off as a no contest.
The 32-year-old was taken to hospital following the battle, and after flying again to England visited an eye fixed specialist in Manchester on Monday.
Andy Aspinall mentioned in a video posted to his son’s YouTube channel:, exterior “His proper eye – he nonetheless cannot see something. He mentioned it is simply gray.
“His left eye’s about 50%, so one’s actually blurry and one’s nonetheless not working.”
The fighter may have extra assessments this week and a CT scan “to see if the bones are all proper, however they assume the bones are all proper”.
Andy Aspinall added that eye pokes “occur so much in MMA” and “‘one thing must be accomplished within the sport to cease that taking place”.
“It is dangerous,” he mentioned. “He might have misplaced his sight. He is nonetheless not obtained his sight in a single eye, so we do not know. We’re nonetheless ready. Time is a healer, hopefully.”
UFC gloves are fingerless and the promotion launched redesigned gloves in June 2024 in an effort to scale back eye pokes, cuts and hand accidents.
However in November they reverted to the unique fashion, which had not had a serious redesign since changing into necessary in 1997.
When requested about eye pokes in Saturday’s post-fight information convention, UFC president Dana White mentioned: “It doesn’t matter what you do with the glove, they will occur.”
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