Dana White denies disrespect toward injured heavyweight

In caller days, a existent small play has developed wrong the UFC world, and the halfway of attraction has been connected a young British heavyweight who experienced an unpleasant infinitesimal successful the cage. After the combat with the French fighter, the 31 twelvemonth aged combatant was incapable to proceed the lucifer usually owed to superior imaginativeness problems. A stab successful the oculus wholly disrupted his plans and helium ended up successful hospitals, undergoing examinations and changeless tests.

The combatant himself contacted fans and explained successful his ain benignant what his betterment was like. He said: “I'm perpetually coming and going from the hospital, doing each kinds of oculus tests, talking to specialists, etc. truly a fantastic clip spent.”, but everyone understood that it was axenic sarcasm, due to the fact that the concern is not casual astatine all.

What truly happened

After helium refused to proceed the fight, portion of the assemblage criticized him, and determination was besides a communicative that the caput of the enactment was not blessed with his decision. Then the combatant himself spoke up and said without a filter: “I didn’t proceed and I’ll archer you wherefore I didn’t, due to the fact that I’m not an idiot. I’m not going to combat 1 of the champion punchers successful the satellite if I can’t spot well. I recognize that successful MMA fights determination tin beryllium fights that compromise you, but if my imaginativeness is damaged by an amerciable move, wherefore would I continue? So that immoderate idiot tin aboriginal say, look astatine Tom getting knocked out. If it was a ineligible deed to the oculus and I couldn’t spot aft that, I would proceed and someway woody with it. But wherefore hazard my wellness and proceed warring aft an amerciable determination that affected my vision?”

Because of each this, the named person decided to calm the concern down. He said: “I don’t adjacent retrieve what I said exactly. What did I say? That his eyes are fine? Listen, I cognize Tom said I didn’t speech to him aft that, etc. But we person radical who are taking attraction of him now, checking connected him, doing their champion to assistance him recover. I’m not a doctor, I conscionable said what I heard. I didn’t accidental it to belittle him oregon marque him look similar helium was exaggerating his injury. I said it reasoning that helium was mostly fine, but that it would instrumentality immoderate clip for him to retrieve and travel back. That’s each I said.”

Finally, helium added this successful a calm tone: “My words didn’t person immoderate antagonistic connotations. Some statements tin beryllium taken retired of context, and I don’t adjacent retrieve what I said exactly. But I ne'er said thing antagonistic astir him. I’m definite Tom is precise upset astir the full situation, but helium volition get amended and helium volition beryllium backmost successful the cage.”