DC fawked Stipe up with those eye pokes, now we have a division stuck.
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Eye pokes don't cause traumatic retinal detachments. Corneal abrasion on the FRONT of the eye? Sure. But not a retinal detachment at the BACK of the eye. You need a lot more blunt force for that. That's the kind of injury
you typically only see in something like a car crash or someone catching a 90+ mph fastball with their orbit.
Coincidentally, if you watch the rematch,
the "intentional eye poke" was a 100% legal left hook. It wasn't an eye poke, at all.
You know what has enough blunt force to cause a traumatic retinal detachment?
A 230+ lb professional MMA fighter smashing a left hook directly in your eyeball.
After that punch landed, Stipe was clearly squinting and having issues with his eye every time DC even feinted a jab for the rest of the fight.
Stipe told the media that his retina injury was caused by an eye poke, the
r/MMA hive mind took over, people saw what they wanted to see, and anyone who points it out is downvoted for not mindlessly regurgitating the bullshit narrative.
Facts and reality be damned.
Sums up the reddit page really. Also, pisses all over the DC eye poking theory.
I wonder if Stipe uses this as his go to excuse for whenever he loses, rather than owning up to the loss.