Henry Cejudo confronted criticism nearly instantly after his struggle towards Song Yadong was stopped when he couldn’t proceed following an eye fixed poke within the third spherical at UFC Seattle.
The foul pressured referee Jason Herzog to pause the motion whereas giving Cejudo 5 minutes to recuperate with the ringside doctor coming into the octagon to verify him over as he tried to recuperate sufficient to restart the struggle. Cejudo ultimately gave the go forward to proceed however as quickly because the spherical ended, he advised his coaches relatively emphatically “I can not f*cking see.”
The struggle was stopped moments later and Tune was really declared the winner by technical determination as a result of three full rounds had expired, which led to the judges’ scorecards being tallied.
On Sunday, Cejudo posted an up shut picture with the harm performed to his eye together with a caption that mentioned “diplopia, tender tissue harm, corneal abrasion.”
Cejudo added one other caption saying “he needed a manner out” taking intention at detractors claiming he was utilizing the attention poke as an excuse to cease the struggle.
Diplopia is the time period used for double-vision, which is what Cejudo claimed was inflicting him the most important drawback after the attention poke when he tried to struggle once more.
Following the attention poke, Herzog opted to not penalize Tune for the foul and he didn’t deduct a degree. Based mostly on the scorecards — 30-27, 29-28 and 29-28 all for Tune — a degree deduction would have really led to a majority draw relatively than a technical determination win for Tune.
Cejudo skipped out on post-fight media as a result of he needed to go to a neighborhood Seattle hospital for medical therapy after the occasion ended.
Whereas Cejudo instantly referred to as for a rematch towards Tune because of the disappointing ending, UFC CEO Dana White successfully shot down that concept saying “I simply don’t wish to see it once more.”
It was an unlucky ending to the primary occasion, particularly with Tune surging because the third spherical bought underway however the eye poke in the end ended the struggle.
