Demetrious Johnson Skeptical MMA’s Eye Poke Problem Can Be Fixed

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Demetrious Johnson advises fans to accept eye pokes as a part of MMA.

Tom Aspinall’s first heavyweight title defense against Ciryl Gane ended in a disappointing no contest at UFC 321 due to an eye poke. A double eye poke from Gane late in the first round left Aspinall unable to continue. Gane is receiving a lot of flak from fans due to the anticlimactic end to a much-awaited matchup.



However, Johnson defended Gane, claiming it is a natural human reaction to extend one’s hands when attacked. Johnson also noted that the way Gane’s hands were extended is actually the correct technique to throw kicks in Muay Thai. “Mighty Mouse” believes eye pokes will always be rampant in MMA unless boxing gloves are used.

It’s a Natural Reaction​

“People are always talking about, ‘When are we gonna fix eye pokes in mixed martial arts?’ Newsflash: you’re never f—ing gonna do it,” Johnson said on YouTube. “Reason why is because as human beings our natural reaction when somebody comes towards us is, open my hands and stick my hands out… Obviously the foul was an accident, but the way he had his hands on Tom Aspinall’s face is the correct technique to do… So once again, you’re never gonna fix eye pokes in mixed martial arts unless you put us in actual boxing gloves.” While the UFC introduced a new design of gloves last year, it failed to stop eye pokes. The promotion has since returned to their older design.

Demetrious Johnson defends Ciryl Gane over Tom Aspinall’s eye poke

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Demetrious Johnson Skeptical MMA’s Eye Poke Problem Can Be Fixed

Demetrious Johnson advises fans to accept eye pokes as a part of MMA.

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[Bowel-forged Stool]

The only way to fix it is be a little man with little eyes..

 

[NadaRekowski]

Demetrious is one of the greats but sadly his takes are among the worst.

It saddens my heart but back then Dana was right to trade him off.

 

[Aurelian]

DJ is just keeping shit real. Eyepokes are never going away.

 

[Intermission]

It can absolutely be fixed and it has nothing to do with Muay Thai mechanics lol

 

[Bobby Boulders]

Renowned MT champ Jon Jones never meant any of those eye pokes, he was only setting up his kicks

 

[Superzorro]

Demetrious is one of the greats but sadly his takes are among the worst.

It saddens my heart but back then Dana was right to trade him off.

It’s funny because just a few days ago they were praising the guy for saying Aspinall is the future GOAT.

 

[NadaRekowski]

It’s funny because just a few days ago they were praising the guy for saying Aspinall is the future GOAT.

Right?!

 

[Jojofan]

Disagree if you want, but he is correct. It's not like Gane was pointing his fingers at Tom, he was trying to use the palm of his hand to create separation. That is a completely normal thing to do. They could train to make using a fist a habit, but it is not as effective as the palm of your hand.

 

[Superzorro]

In pretty much every combat sport that involves punching, fighters open their hands to increase their punching speed or post off the opponents head/chest/shoulders to create space. MMA is just the only one where the fingers are exposed.

 

[tigersmoosh]

fighters should wear goggles. like a cup for the eye-balls

 

[Neck&Neck]

Cut the malarkey Demetrius
I will not accept this dirty caveman technique

 

[Portland8242]

Israel Adesanya is one of the best distance managers in MMA and he's never had problems with poking people's eyes.

 

[Pancake Sprawl]

Disagree if you want, but he is correct. It's not like Gane was pointing his fingers at Tom, he was trying to use the palm of his hand to create separation. That is a completely normal thing to do. They could train to make using a fist a habit, but it is not as effective as the palm of your hand.

yeah, his palm, but somehow his fingers went directly into Tom's eyes. strange how that works. when he was smashing Tai Tuivasa in the back of the head over and over was he creating distance? what about when he kicked Jon Jones in the balls and pretended like it was a legal kick? you guys are naive as fuck if you think all these fouls happen accidentally. there's no other organization that is filled with eye poking nut kicking fighters EXCEPT the UFC.

i guarantee you there's a way to stop it. it's called punishing the breaking of the rules. and what punishment will likely radically change the way these guys accidentally foul? by taking away their money. there is no warning, the first foul is an immediate deduction in pay and every foul after that compounds until the 3rd one is a DQ. real simple. i don't give a shit if it's accidental. fight like a man, if you want to gouge people's eyes out and kick people in the nuts i'm sure there's some Russian organization where you can do that vs 3 dwarfs in a trench coat.

 

[Pancake Sprawl]

Israel Adesanya is one of the best distance managers in MMA and he's never had problems with poking people's eyes.

he also uses the stiff arm to people's faces a lot and he doesn't poke their eyes. it's almost like .....THEY DO IT ON PURPOSE