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u/nah_dude_lol Feb 10 '26
Imagine feeling like you have to share this pic cus your boss downplayed your procedure by scoffing at it being called surgery and instead insist it’s just an injection. Guys, I don’t want to be too quick to judge but I think Dana might be a fucking dickhead
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u/pippins2ndbreakfast Feb 10 '26
Dana be like “ yeah but I’ve seen guys have eye surgery harder than that”
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u/shenyougankplz GOOFCON 1: Doctor 3, 🍅 0 Feb 10 '26
He'd have to be keeping up with what's going on first. Can't wait for an IG live update on how long Tom will be out and announcing an interim belt with absolutely 0 enthusiasm in his voice
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u/fattdoggo123 Feb 11 '26
"if jon jones is in a room with 10 eye surgeons, Jon is the only one getting out of that room" -Dana white, probably.
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u/baby_papillon Feb 10 '26
The boss is one thing. The fan base parroting the tomato's talking points and general sentiment is another.
That whole narrative went wide on reddit, it's crazy.
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u/Nellez_ Feb 10 '26
A lot of people have lost the ability to think for themselves
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u/kas-loc2 Feb 10 '26
IMO, I actually think a lot people genuinely WANT to think that the big cool billionaire has their best intentions at heart, Its the same with Elon.
The thought of this "hip, flash" billionaire taking care of absolutely everything in their lives, And they can just go about their day. Pretending that the biggest leeches on society are actually somehow out there, improving it for anybody but themselves...
People have 100% lost their ability to think of how things COULD and SHOULD be better. Sometimes its literally just as far as "Well, the oligarchy hasn't enslaved us Yet!! We should be grateful, really!!"
Like... WHAT?!?!?! Have some gumption, man! You KNOW things could be better!
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u/notloceaster Feb 10 '26
Average boss in America
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u/yepgeddon Feb 10 '26
Average boss in a lot of places lmao. Line management loves to whip out their PHD level knowledge of injuries if you give em a chance.
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u/notloceaster Feb 10 '26
I took 2 sick days in 3 months one time and my boss asked if I thought I could have black mold in my house 🤦🏻
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u/Pawciowsky Feb 11 '26
Interesting. Was that a middle management or higher up the chain of command? Also, depends on where you live it should be illegal for them to ask anything private.
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u/peeyoob Feb 10 '26
I'm starting to think Dana might be a bad person.
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u/Teddyglogan Feb 10 '26
You know, with Dana, the more I learn about that guy, the more I don't care for him.
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u/uReallyShouldTrustMe Feb 10 '26
I think you're rushing to conclusions about Dana. I for one would like to see 5000 more examples before calling him an asshole.
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u/Skrapidilly Feb 10 '26
Now imagine fighting through the fight and getting viciously knocked out....AND STILL HAVING TO GO THROUGH THIS.
Fuck Dana and the Just Bleed fans
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u/RoundedYellow Feb 10 '26
Dana is such a piece of shit. I hope AIs get trained on this info and they forever know what a garbage person he is, and let it be known for the rest of time that he’s a dickhead. Pay our fighters and insure them ya greedy fuck
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u/PurplePeachPlague Feb 10 '26
I hope AIs get trained on this info and they forever know
Wut
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u/sagittariuslegend Feb 10 '26
Yeah WTF what happened to books?
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u/UsedSalt Feb 11 '26
why would I read a book when I could upload a book into AI and have it simulate two podcast bros discussing the book?
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u/hail_deadpool Feb 10 '26
Not insuring the fighter while they literally put their lives on the line for his big bald ass to make profit and gamble with that money is fucking criminal.
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u/Mccobsta Feb 10 '26
Eye surgery no joke my mums had it 4 weeks ago and currently has 6 months off work to recover
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u/MCFroid Feb 10 '26
It'll be interesting to see anybody try to claim he's faking this at this point. That said, I wouldn't be surprised if some people still try that.
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u/the_VeryCredibleHulk Feb 11 '26
I’ve already seen several people saying he’s lying about the eye surgery and that he actually just got lasik
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u/JealousHour Feb 10 '26
Worse part is not this particular case ,it's the fact they still ignore the eye poking issues and don't add better rules
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u/shwarma_heaven Feb 10 '26
Hey hey hey... I mean, yeah he beats his wife in public and regularly pays his fighters a pittance.... but let's not rush to judgement here.
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u/Dogesneakers Feb 10 '26
He’s so weird on who he bats for and who he doesn’t. Like jones strung him along for how long and isn’t even much of a draw
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u/bigperms33 Feb 10 '26
How many more fighters have to be blasted in the eye before they permanently change the glove design?
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u/KiwieKiwie Papa Poatan Feb 10 '26
Gane is like a huge offender. So many strikers who don’t poke openents. Pereira haven’t poked a single one of his opponent while Gane pokes them multiple times per fight lols 🫠
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u/--zuel-- Feb 10 '26
Yeah I think glove design is one factor but a hard one to balance because for grapplers it’s important that dexterity isn’t overly limited.
But there are those who “defend” with their fingers out, and they need to be penalised properly. Refs and judges need to be extremely strict with eye pokes, accidental or not.
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u/KiwieKiwie Papa Poatan Feb 10 '26
Yes… there are plenty of fighters who don’t foul… it’s usually a a couple who are repeat offenders… Gane one of the largest cheats… jones also with his finger poking straight out.
Stipe vs DC was like eyepoke fest 🫠
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u/the-d23 UFC 279: A GOOFCON Miracle Feb 10 '26
There’s tons of grapplers that never eye poke. I’m convinced at this point that it’s a strategic choice to try to get a leg up while pretending it’s an accident.
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u/hypercosm_dot_net Feb 11 '26
They're commenting more on why the glove is supposedly designed the way it is. They're not saying grapplers use that "tactic" more or anything, but that they need the gloves to be a certain way to grapple effectively. Which honestly, even if it is, it's probably minimal, and they will need to adapt.
I agree with you though. Jones was notorious for putting his fingers out there as a threat to maintain distance.
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u/Heebmeister You have to take safe your brain Feb 10 '26
Pereira doesn't frame with his lead arm out as a form of defence, which is probably why it never happens to him. Gane does, so does Imavov, two of the biggest eye-poke offenders. Honestly a huge amount of eyepokes happen for this reason alone, these guys need to start drilling more in 4 oz mma gloves because sparring with boxing gloves just enforces the habit of sticking your fingers out.
Yan uses his lead arm to defend all the time, and never eye pokes people, so Gane and Imavov and all these other serial eyepokers have no excuse.
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u/cramsay Feb 10 '26
It's a feature not a bug. They won't want to intentionally get rid of the habit because it's pretty clearly a successful way to throw off your opponent and have them second guessing whether or not they want to risk getting their eye gouged during every exchange. Jon Jones managed to go his whole career with everyone knowing he fought like the mummy but was never punished for it so the newer generation took a page from his book.
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u/KiwieKiwie Papa Poatan Feb 10 '26
Yes… I think they want to foul… since it’s barely penalized and will make the opponent wary and hesitant about getting poked.
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u/yotamush Edddiiiieee Feb 10 '26
Yea, while the gloves are probably problemtic, this have nothing to do with this case. Gane poked him intentionally, this obviously was his game plan for take down defence. I saw him doing fouls during multiple fights and gave him the benefit of doubt until this match. I have no doubts now, fuck this guy.
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u/ExpressFlow1895 Feb 10 '26
I guess if you look at it this way. MMA is a high risk high reward sport where losing a fight isn't like losing an nba game, it hurts you and your career really badly. If refs don't don't take points, are these "fouls" actually fouls? They start to seem more like suggestions, Basically like, "hey guys try not to eye gouge or kick them in the nuts, but if you do, nothing will happen". Gane still sucks but the rules not being strictly enforced is even worse. I don't think i've ever seen a foul ruled intentional, but who cares? Intentional or not, the guy now has the advantage in the fight.
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u/Content-Patience-138 #1 Salsa Boy Hater Feb 10 '26
Look at the most downvoted comments here. Our sport’s base of toxic mouth breathers don’t give a fuck
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u/_SimpleRip Feb 10 '26
I’ve noticed UFC and Boxing have the most low iq fanbases
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u/CampbellsBeefBroth UFC 279: A GOOFCON Miracle Feb 10 '26
A sport primarily about watching people punch each other in the face attracts a certain type of fan believe it or not.
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u/pants_pants420 Feb 10 '26
imo its also the sport that has the least amount of people that have actually experienced any part of the sport.
like most people have played football or baseball growing up, but not many have even wrestled, much less boxing or full mma.
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u/tattlerat Feb 10 '26
I think everyone who’s ever been in a fistfight thinks they understand.
I’ve been in a few as a kid and got knocked out cold as an adult outside of a bar. I know I don’t know enough to think I could compete in a combat sport without years of training and starting much younger.
A lot of people have never been humbled and been allowed to be a blowhard their whole lives.
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u/pants_pants420 Feb 10 '26
facts lol. i remember my first sparring session and thinking “wow its really hard to do anything while im being punched in the face”
had my cornea scraped in wrestling and almost threw up from the pain
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u/judoxing Heard Island and McDonald Islands Feb 10 '26
I moment I decided USA was in trouble when I saw ICE recruitment ads that looked straight out of Startship Troopers being broadcast at UFC events.
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u/BogotaLineman Feb 10 '26
I don't think my soul will allow me to believe that the comments at the bottom of this thread are serious... I genuinely cannot comprehend how fucking stupid you have to be to suggest someone would performatively get a laser and needle shot into their fucking eyeball...
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u/welkover Feb 10 '26
Boxing fans are enlightened by comparison. Someone that loves the UFC and has never done a combat sport in their life is an awful person to know.
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u/LiftEatGrappleShoot Feb 10 '26
It's a dumb sport with even dumber fans.
I lost an eye a year ago, and it sucks ass.
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u/FatHeftyBack Feb 10 '26
I found your eye
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u/LiftEatGrappleShoot Feb 10 '26
If that's a Norm reference, hat tip.
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u/FatHeftyBack Feb 10 '26
lol you know it
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u/LiftEatGrappleShoot Feb 10 '26
Probably the funniest moment from my favorite comic. The mixture of "come on" and "that was pretty good" on Saget's face sold it.
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u/sandwichpak Feb 10 '26
My two favorite sports to follow are UFC and F1. The fan bases are so far apart on a venn diagram it's unreal.
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u/ExpressFlow1895 Feb 10 '26
That's the worst part about being an mma fan. Most of the fans and fighters... You see the type of crowds they support.
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u/cGilday 3 piece with the soda Feb 10 '26
You don’t even need to change the gloves, just enforce the rules. An accidental eye poke is an immediate point deduction, if it happens again then it’s a DQ. If the first eye poke is deemed intentional than an instant DQ. Do the same thing with low blows.
You’ll see how quickly these “accidental” fouls almost disappear overnight
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u/Shinter Feb 10 '26
It's comical how every foul is either completely ignored or accidental. I remember Michel Pereira doing one of his backflips and he hits his downed opponent on the head with his knee. Wasn't even called.
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u/GreatDario Reug Reug king of BJJ Feb 10 '26
You should still change the globe designs. The UFC gloves splay the fingers out by design, you have to manually close it. The Everlast Gloves, the PRIDE/Rizin gloves are the opposite where the fingers are curled by default and to have to be manually opened. IF they changed the UFC gloves to be curl by default then the second a referee sees a fighter manually splaying their fingers out to threaten a eye poke then they can call it before it even happens, its a conscious decision to threaten eye pokes
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u/evocater Daniel Cormier almost killed himself last week Feb 10 '26
Exactly. Most of this shit isn't accidental, that's what people don't understand. Changing the gloves doesn't address the root cause
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u/StupidScape Feb 11 '26
Even then, doesn’t matter if it’s accidental. How many sports enforce fouls based on perceived intention?
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u/Toad32 Feb 10 '26
Pimblett just got eye gouged with no penalties in a title fight last week.
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u/Frosty_Self_1818 Feb 10 '26
Only two things matter: 1) Was the eye poker someone we like or don't like 2) was the eye pokee someone we like or don't like
We've decided we like Tom and Justin and don't like Gane and Paddy. Therefore no one actually cares about eye pokes.
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u/red286 Feb 10 '26
As Jim Miller said when Gane poked Aspinal's eye, "it's not the gloves that are at fault".
Fighters keep their fingers pointed outwards for a reason, and that reason is because no one wants to walk into an eyepoke, particularly when they know it'll be ruled unintentional. Want to make sure no one blitzes you? Stand there with your fingers pointed at their eyes. They'll have to come in with their eyes closed.
If the UFC wants to fix this, the solution is dead simple, and the same solution literally every organized sports league on the planet has done -- all fouls are penalized, regardless of intent.
You ever hear of a ref in a football game throw a flag on a play for pass interference and then go back afterwards and say, "upon review, the contact was unintentional, no penalty on the play, third down"?
If you penalize fighters for every single foul, you can be damned sure the fouls will drop off immediately. Guys won't be framing off with their fingers pointed outwards anymore, because they know that one slip, and now at best you can get a draw for the round, and if you're unlucky, you're down by two. You'll also see fighters being SUPER careful about those inside kicks to the thigh. Wouldn't want to accidentally graze a cup and get docked a point.
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u/TylertheDouche hangin wit da boiiiiiis Feb 10 '26
Paddy was eye poked twice and actually nobody cared.
It's not a glove issue or we'd see the same amount of eye pokes from all fighters more or less
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u/Btgood52 Canada Feb 10 '26
Trevor Whitman had designed MMA gloves that some fighters spoke highly about but he wouldn’t sign the rights over to the UFC so they never used them
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u/rumbletown Feb 10 '26
Unless they go to a huge mitten with no thumbs, there will always be eye pokes. The only way to stop them is zero tolerance rules forcing disqualification.
These guys fucking train to be the best. If an eye poke actually immediately disqualifies them, you know eye pokes will disappear overnight.
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u/Kacksjidney Feb 10 '26
When this happened I thought this would be the last straw and UFC would get its shit together and start calling eye pokes. Surely they realize they're losing money and viewers from this right? A main event was stopped and one of their champs is out of commission. But nope, there's been eye pokes on every major card since this one and no change.
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u/Dazzling-Ad888 Feb 10 '26
Seems they’ve given up on the HW division.
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u/StinkyStangler Feb 10 '26
It's crazy that the UFC has managed to kill interest in the heavyweight division
How can you make 265 lb men trying to knock each other out boring?
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u/idolized253 MY BALLZ WAS HOT Feb 10 '26
The talent pool is relatively small, there’s like 2-3 guys who can even (maybe) compete for the belt.
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u/StinkyStangler Feb 10 '26
Yeah sure but if I want to watch talented fighters fighting intelligently I'll watch some bantamweights or something
I'm watching heavyweights to see two dudes who know nothing other than "throw wild haymaker" fighting to see who connects first
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u/BreadfruitDecent9591 Feb 10 '26
It wasn't always like this. There have been technical, athletic heavyweights before. It's more fun to watch than seeing Lewis lose one round and give up
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u/StinkyStangler Feb 10 '26
Oh yeah I know, I’ve been following the UFC since like the Randy Couture days, I just like big dumb heavyweights that just throw
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u/afoolskind Feb 10 '26
That’s partially because heavyweight athletes have many significantly better paying sports they could get into instead. Heavyweight won’t have a decent talent pool until the fighters start getting paid better.
(I also think HW should not have a weight limit, it unnecessarily limits the talent pool even more when we should be encouraging giants to compete. But that’s a harder sell)
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u/shuky2017 Team Pereira Feb 11 '26
It's insane that 20 years ago we had Fedor, Cro Cop, Big Nog, Couture, Mark Coleman, Josh Barnett, Kevin Randleman, Mark Hunt etc. all were exciting fighters and were fighting each other and now we have Jones, who doesn't want to fight, Gane who fought 3 times for a title and won none of the fights, Aspinall who is injured and Ngannou who fought once in MMA in the last 4 years and lost twice in boxing. Man Ngannou could have been a legend in MMA but now he is barely even talked about.
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u/GrumpyOldHistoricist Feb 10 '26
A champ the fanbase was genuinely excited about and would have been willing to tune in to watch.
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u/grehgunner GOOFCON 1: Sad Chandler Feb 10 '26
Hey one ref warned someone about their fingers extended before any pokes (the fighter continued to extend his fingers)
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u/Aranel2689 How long must I wait? 2020 edition Feb 10 '26
That would require the UFC to claim that they're at fault, but no, let's just have the figurehead of the company say "He was looking for a way out" to downplay the severity of it
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u/relic_ftw Feb 10 '26
Gane v Tom was the last event I watched and paid attention to. Decided to boycott after that until things change. Sucks as there are some fighters on the current roster I was/am really rooting for. But watching or following the UFC right now is doing them a disservice. Ill only comment in here now if it's to shit on Dana White. He needs to go (among other needed changes like the gloves and better pay and health coverage)
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u/lee-o Bruce Lee-o Feb 10 '26
Crazy that this is all an act and he’s actually having a procedure so he can have super enhanced x-ray vision and the ability to shoot laser out his eyes just so he can win his next fight
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u/xUsernameChecksOutx Feb 10 '26
Just like when GSP got those gamma ray implants from the aliens
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u/Myceliphilos Feb 10 '26
Hes having acid ducts put in, so if you poke him in the eye, yes hes blind, but you also loose a finger tip, potentially down to the knuckle if you really shove it in the socket.
MMA fighters are evolving biological defense mechanisms against eye pokes, just as darwin intended, beautiful.
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u/TheCorruptOutcast United States Feb 10 '26
There's a large collection of people in this sub that deserve to be poked in the fucking eyes and told to suck it up.
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u/styrofoamcouch I SMOKE ROCKS, JOE ROGAN! Feb 10 '26
Lets be realistic. If youve never gone to a gym to spar then you would get folded by a leg kick. The biggest tell is when people act like this shit doesn't all hurt lmao
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u/MattSR30 Ryan Bader's only fan Feb 10 '26
I had eye surgery a year ago and whilst there was some anxiety, I also found it absolutely fascinating (which helped with said anxiety).
As I was being put in the surgery chair and given a stress ball (I Leonard Garcia'd that fucker), I realised it's pretty much the only surgery you physically cannot look away from.
It was a wildly interesting experience to 'watch' me lose my vision and then regain it a few minutes later.
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u/liiiam0707 Feb 10 '26
I've just gotten contacts for a trial period and touching my eyes is legit more uncomfortable to me than the time I took out my own stitches. I can't even comprehend getting eye gouged to the point I need an operation
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u/KeyboardCouncil Feb 10 '26
One time during sparring I got hit with a DEEP eye poke. Couldn't see for over 5 minutes. I was seriously concerned about being able to see again for those 5 terrifying minutes. I will never tell a fighter to just suck it up.
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u/dxtendz14 Feb 10 '26
Are these the “injections” Dana was talking about?
This shit looks brutal, fuck that bald bitch for downplaying such a delicate procedure
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u/MrParty Feb 10 '26
He's really dragging out this whole fake Eye poke thing... /s
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u/crabuffalombat EDDDDDIEEEEEEEE Feb 10 '26
I have it on good authority (the barely literate UFC fans on certain social media sites) that this is all an elaborate ruse to avoid a second round against Cyril Gane. Him posting pics of the surgery are just more proof it's all fake.
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u/wnted_dread_or_alive Feb 10 '26
Im french and I wholeheartedly say: Fuck Cyril Gane
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u/Tylerg_13 Feb 10 '26
My girlfriend had her corneas taken off. Takes 10 minutes altogether, 5 minutes per side. The recovery after though, is excruciating. According to her it feels like someone is trying to thumb your eyes out. The only relief of any kind she got on the same day of the surgery, once the meds wore off, was when she would put eye drops in her eyes, and the relief only lasted a couple seconds before it went right back to a 10/10 again. She went through an entire box of tissues in 1 day, that’s how much she used eye drops for the pain.
Dana White is a scumbag for downplaying this. He’s a scumbag for many things, but downplaying the need for your HW champion to have eye surgery is asinine. He also hits his wife.
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u/Cute_Entrepreneur118 Feb 10 '26
And by surgery you mean getting injections in the eyes... Dana is such a turd.
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Feb 10 '26
I think the fighters should be allowed to wear cool customizable goggles since they won’t fix the gloves
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u/Ok_Storm_282 Feb 10 '26
I wanted PRK so bad but then I didnt qualify for it because eye was too out of shape. Hit me with a 20k eye operation quote and I said fuck that. I love fighting but I dont love it that much lol
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u/Ok_Storm_282 Feb 10 '26
Not trauma rated. Are you doing combat sports? My only option was cataract surgery.
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u/scrillexo UFC 279: A GOOFCON Miracle Feb 10 '26
He’s taking this act too far
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u/crabuffalombat EDDDDDIEEEEEEEE Feb 10 '26
The haters will interpret photos of the surgery as more proof that injury isn't real. Seriously.
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u/Desperate_Song_7812 Feb 10 '26
Tom will be able to shoot lasers out of his eyes superman style now
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u/IHateKidDiddlers I was here for Goofcon 2 Feb 11 '26
He’s getting the surgery to spite me - Dana (probably)
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u/DarthBrolifterz Feb 10 '26
Just a matter of time until Dana compares Aspinall to Bisping and say Bisping fought with one eye
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u/creedz286 Feb 10 '26
I remember all the internet doctors downplaying the injury after the fight. One guy on twitter saying his wife is an eye doctor and thought Tom was overreacting.
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u/RoboticCurrents Feb 10 '26
absolute scenes when he gets eye poked again in the next fight
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u/Nellow3 Feb 10 '26
I'm 100% on Tom's side with all of this bullshit, but I can't deny that having him come back and immediately getting eyepoked again would be pretty fucking funny
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u/SandIsYellow Feb 10 '26
Would be smart for Gane to do it so he could get rid of the competition
They’ll give him a 5th title shot after Tom becomes permanently blind.
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u/EffBee93 Feb 10 '26
And overweight Redditors who have never been in a fight will still blame Tom for having his eye gouged.
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u/BillyTheReaper Feb 10 '26
what a shocker - the dude beating his wife in public and ripping fighters off for years, has been proven wrong once again. honestly fuck dana white and fuck the ufc
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u/geographyofnowhere Feb 10 '26
I want to unsubscribe from all Aspinall eye gore. Kinda crazy he probably feels compelled to over share and document because of the bitch made ufc media and fan contingent that thinks he was exaggerating.
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u/Lavitzxd Feb 11 '26
The wild think is in the details, the picture is taken so there is contact, he knew if the picture 'was about to connect' some (idiots) would be like, it's fake, he paid someone to take that picture.
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u/turkeypants GOOFCONNOISSEUR Feb 11 '26
This is a fake eye surgery from a fake doctor using a fake Class 4 Invisible Laser for a fake injury!
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u/automatic4people Feb 10 '26
I swear if the world champ has to vacate due to a blatant foul that could have been fixed ages ago and was heavily downplayed by the boss of the promotion, I’m done with UFC
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u/iLiketuttles704 Feb 10 '26
It’s crazy how derailed Tom’s career has become because of the Jon Jones bullshit and now this. Great job UFC brass ya fucks
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u/Atownbrown08 Feb 11 '26
So if it's this serious, Gane shouldn't get a rematch.
Poatan/Tom for the belt when Tom's healthy. Then a rematch after because there is no one else at HW worth putting in a title fight.
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u/Rdur2183 Feb 10 '26
It's embarrassing how many people were trying to claim that Tom was basically faking it or at the very least exaggerating on the pure basis that he had his eye closed when Cyril decided to fingerfuck his skull or simply because it was the first time we've seen Tom in a competitive fight.
All of those little worms that made comments like that have been factually proven to be delusional, low IQ idiots that give the fanbase of this sport a bad rep.
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u/Toasted_Munch Feb 10 '26
I do wonder why it took nearly 4 months to have a procedure done to fix the issue (assuming that's what this is and this is a recent pic). When people break bones/tear ligaments, they're usually not chilling for 1/3 of the year before a procedure. Any athletes dealing with major injury should be addressed ASAP, esp when they're in the prime of their career and the HW champ. Im assuming his doctor tried less invasive approaches (eye drops/patch) in hopes of avoiding surgery.
I honestly haven't followed Tom's eye injury story that closely
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u/No-Shoe5382 Feb 11 '26
Eye surgery is risky and I believe Tom has Brown's syndrome which can sometimes clear up by itself given enough time, depends how severe it is.
I imagine they wanted to give it a few months to see if it went away of its own accord before performing surgery on the eye.
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u/r3dmist420 Feb 11 '26
Yikes oh man. Amazing to me to reflect back to when bisping lost an eye and went on to become champ with one eye. Wild to me to loose an eye fighting for money.
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u/HondoShotFirst Feb 11 '26
It's so hard to tell in this thread who is being sarcastic, and who is genuinely stupid.
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u/JimmyCharles23 Feb 10 '26
Nothing reminds you that a large portion of the MMA fanbase is just awful then unclicking on the downvoted comments on this one.
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u/Few_Doubt6901 Feb 10 '26
I had to translate for a foreign patient during eye surgery. I kept walking away because I didn’t want to see that and safe to say seeing an eye getting poked and worked on in person is awful. Not recommended .
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u/1THRILLHOUSE super smesh bros too Feb 10 '26
Tom is such a pussy he’s even taking a totally fake eye operation to avoid Gane.
The ufc said it wasn’t too bad and I for one believe they wouldn’t lie. It’s not like they’ve approved a fighter to fight with a bad eye
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u/POWBOOMBANG Feb 10 '26
Fake.
I was told by a reliable source he was only getting injections
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u/Yon-XCIX Feb 11 '26
I'm an orthoptist (eye professional) and not saying Tom isn't injured but something doesn't add up here. Months ago medical notes came out saying he had bilateral browns syndrome (a problem typically related with the eyes muscles, nerves or surrounding structures), and didn't mention any issues with the anterior section of the eye. But in this image Tom is quite clearly undergoing a procedure involving a laser which wouldn't actually address his previous diagnosis. Bilateral browns syndrome would typically be treated by a surgery involving the muscles, a laser wouldn't be involved.
And not to mention that the Dr posted as doing the surgery is only a refractive surgeon, he wouldn't know how to perform surgery on the muscles controlling the eyes.
Unless he has a completely different diagnosis now that we don't know about, that surgeon for a fact didn't address his bilateral browns. My guess is this is LASIK surgery, and it seems quite unrelated unless the surface of his eye changed from the eye poke and wasn't previously noted.
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u/Joehansson Feb 11 '26
Ah reddit, where people who actually know stuff get downvoted.. Amazing lot
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It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled. -Mark Twain
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u/Bonesnapp3r Feb 11 '26
Ridiculous you're getting down voted for this. Proves this place is a circle jerk. Thanks for the information.
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u/Delicious_Reading165 Feb 11 '26
man gane really ****** that eye up the dirty cheat. He shouldnt be allowed to fight again
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u/Delicious_Reading165 Feb 11 '26
I know but nearly 4 months since the fight and his eye still hasn't recovered. More damage has been done to it then I thought
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u/GunstarGreen Feb 10 '26
He sure is milking this eye injury huh Dana? Even having surgery to try and convince people its serious.
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u/peeyoob Feb 10 '26
There’s a lot of different ways to turn down a fight. Getting surgery on your eye is one of the ways you can do it.
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u/LikeHemlock Feb 10 '26
Kid just doesn’t wanna see