Eye poke? Looks like the nail ripped the eyelid

[Post 2 Decision]

Interesting, wonder how much damage the eye actually took.

Spoiler: Gross eye pics

 

[usernamee]

Leon won via TKO

Turn it into a doctor stoppage

 

[West_Hammer]

Shit that doesn’t even look like a conventional eye poke (purely going by that still photo, I haven’t seen a slowed down video). If that’s a punch and the finger caught the eyelid, surely that’s a TKO win?

 

[Carrotman23]

Leon won via TKO

Turn it into a doctor stoppage

 

[FIGHTING TALK]

It didn’t look like an eye poke in the replay, looked like the glove made contact and the knuckle went into the eye, which is legal, however Leon apologised for the eye poke post fight, so it must have been a foul.

 

[Dorkman]

Juust looking at those makes my eye start to sting.

 

[Straatblaffer]

It was hard to see, I felt it was his knuckle.

 

[DizzyYeahYeah]

Can't be a punch if his fingers are extended. What kind of punches are some of you guys throwing?

 

[TJH Exitium]

His fingers were clearly extended in the replay. It was not a legal punch

Start giving DQ's when fighters jab their fingers straight into opponents eyes

Even calling that unintentional is BS - If a fighter is making a fist and his thumb hits the eye, it's unintentional. When a fighter sticks his fingers straight out and rams them into someones face that is NOT UNINTENTIONAL

 

[Death By Samson]

Yikes

 

[thehighking]

It didn’t look like an eye poke in the replay, looked like the glove made contact and the knuckle went into the eye, which is legal, however Leon apologised for the eye poke post fight, so it must have been a foul.

In the picture you can clearly see it's a finger in his eye and not a knuckle. Definitely accidental and it looks like an unlikely freak accident too, his hand was almost closed.

 

[MCS]

It's just a weird situation that never happens. Fingers not extended, but also not a closed fist. Also a problem with the grappling gloves, as they worked on a better model to fix the poking, but looks like nothing came of it. This was the right call. And that is very painful.

 

[Pilo]

Leon won via TKO

Turn it into a doctor stoppage

That's how Vitor Belfort won a world title against Randy a long time ago!

 

[Rachel Da Bear]

Leon was doing it the entire fight and was undeterred after warning. This is a ref/sport problem.

 

[TJH Exitium]

It was hard to see, I felt it was his knuckle.

They played multiple slow-motion replays on live TV and you can clearly see Edwards has all of his fingers pointing straight forwards. It wasn't even a punch.

 

[Aberlour]

From the replays i think it was 100% finger in 100% eyeball.

Fuck Leon and fuck his title shots demands. His only top 5 win is blown up lw RDA. I don’t think Dana will be up for giving him a title shot on the back of a no contest due an eye poke given the sour taste left in the mouth from the title fight last weekend.

 

[J0N0]

Shit that doesn’t even look like a conventional eye poke (purely going by that still photo, I haven’t seen a slowed down video). If that’s a punch and the finger caught the eyelid, surely that’s a TKO win?

It wasn't a punch, he put his arm out for balance when he threw a middle kick. NC was 100% the correct call.

 

[Schaub]

Interesting, wonder how much damage the eye actually took.

Spoiler: Gross eye pics

 

[TJH Exitium]

It didn’t look like an eye poke in the replay, looked like the glove made contact and the knuckle went into the eye, which is legal, however Leon apologised for the eye poke post fight, so it must have been a foul.

In the picture you can clearly see it's a finger in his eye and not a knuckle. Definitely accidental and it looks like an unlikely freak accident too, his hand was almost closed.

What are you people watching? His hand wasn't almost closed - he had all of his fingers extended straight out like a fork

He didn't even throw a punch, he was sticking his hand out to balance for a kick

 

[CodCommando]

Leon had his fingers out stretching all night. he deserves the DQ loss