Father Gives Concerning Update on Tom Aspinall’s Condition Following UFC 321

[rjmbrd]

I did read. Your eye closed up within minutes and scratches were discovered on your eye by the emergency doctors.

Lets backup - my retina was cleared (the same test you saw Tom taking in his video) which is how you... see.

Using a die and blue light they could see my sclera was scratched (the white part of your eye that has nothing to do with vision)

Despite there being nothing wrong with my retina/vision on examination, I couldn't see clearly for DAYS and had problems with my balance.

Neither of those are Tom's situation. His eyes have never closed up at any point and no scratches were discovered on his eyes. In fact nothing at all has been discovered or happened besides Tom's claim he can't see despite plenty of evidence showing he can.

But thanks for your private health history.

Again, you do not need to scratch your retina to effect your vision. There are two iris muscles - they contract and dilate. This is why Tom had trouble keeping his eye open after the foul, and why its more comfortable to wear a bandage.

Aside from me explaining this to you repeatedly, just use some common sense. Take your finger and jam it into your eyeball in similar fashion you believe mimics what you see on the video with Gane. No more no less.

Come back and report if your vision is fine.

 

[VAfan]

and the dickheads will still be at it, 'a real fighter doesn't quit, derp derp derp'......

 

[xhaydenx]

Unfortunately that isn't how the eye works.

I was hit by a tennis ball playing a night game and within minutes couldn't keep that eye open. At an emergency ophthalmologist visit the next day, they used a specialized die and blue light to examine the damage, and fortunately only my sclera (the white part of your eye) was scratched and the retina was OK.

Despite not injuring my retina, I couldn't see clearly for days and had really bad vertigo come and go.

The iris muscle is a sphincter, it just dilates and constricts - this is why the eye spasms and is hard to keep open after trauma.

Dude is likely really going through it.

I get ya.

I got kicked in the the face during sparring and the toe went right into my eye, and they were able to tell me it was just some small scratching or something 2 days later.

I know Tom might have a completely different injury, but I thought they'd be able to tell if there's at least some sort of scratching or other damage somewhere. Maybe there is but that's not the real issue.

I reckon he'd be shitting himself. I know he was saying something about not ever fighting if he hurt his eye or whatever, and that's understandable. Eyes are weird thing. I feel like most people don't think about them a whole lot in terms of injuries until they get hurt like this, then you can't help thinking about never seeing out of that eye again and it's full panic mode for a bit lol.

 

[Bowel-forged Stool]

Stop being an idiot.

Don’t tell me what to do!

 

[markg171]

Lets backup - my retina was cleared (the same test you saw Tom taking in his video) which is how you... see.

Using a die and blue light they could see my sclera was scratched (the white part of your eye that has nothing to do with vision)

Despite there being nothing wrong with my retina/vision on examination, I couldn't see clearly for DAYS and had problems with my balance.




Again, you do not need to scratch your retina to effect your vision. There are two iris muscles - they contract and dilate. This is why Tom had trouble keeping his eye open after the foul, and why its more comfortable to wear a bandage.

Aside from me explaining this to you repeatedly, just use some common sense. Take your finger and jam it into your eyeball in similar fashion you believe mimics what you see on the video with Gane. No more no less.

Come back and report if your vision is fine.

Tom's eye isn't having trouble staying open, and the hospital tests found nothing wrong with his eye.

NEXT!

 

[Khaosan]

Tom's eye isn't having trouble staying open, and the hospital tests found nothing wrong with his eye.

NEXT!

You've been here since 2009, so you're definitely an adult which is absolutely horrifying.

 

[markg171]

You've been here since 2009, so you're definitely an adult which is absolutely horrifying.

Now imagine having an HW champion doing his best Ricky Bobby impression pretending there's anything wrong with him despite every doctor telling him there isn't.

 

[Khaosan]

Now imagine having an HW champion doing his best Ricky Bobby impression pretending there's anything wrong with him despite every doctor telling him there isn't.

Deep breath in through your nose and out through your mouth.

There you go, doesn't that feel better?

 

[Wrath of Foamy]

You didn't read or comprehend my post - there was NO DAMAGE to my retina, yet I could hardly keep my eye open for a day and had about a week of blurry vision, light sensitivity and vertigo.

Even if your retina is not damaged or scratched, the iris muscles are a sphincter and dilator - this is why its hard to keep your eye open after trauma because it spasms.

If you get trauma to the eye and the muscles spasm, if absolutely will screw up your vision, depth perception and even balance.

To be clear, that is 100% true if your retina is not scratched or damaged. Certainly was a bad few weeks for me.

Don't bother.

These people don't care about facts.

They care about being justified and being nuthuggers.

They'll argue for the Earth being flat if it justifies their self-inflated point of view.

 

[snaportap21]

4 days later and he is still completely blind in one eye. I don't think this rematch will happen anytime soon, and at this point I don't know if Aspinall could ever fight or see with that eye again. Do people ever recover if they were completely blind in an eye for 4 days?

This is very common for bad eye pokes. GSP, and Werdum couldn’t see properly days after being eye poked in their fights. There’s a solid chance he’ll be fine.

 

[markg171]

This is very common for bad eye pokes. GSP, and Werdum couldn’t see properly days after being eye poked in their fights. There’s a solid chance he’ll be fine.

They also continued their fights, but that was a bit too inconvenient no?

 

[snaportap21]

They also continued their fights, but that was a bit too inconvenient no?

To be fair, they weren’t obligated to continue their fights after a foul. They just did. Tom was within his rights to choose to not continue there.

 

[JBJ was here]

To be fair, they weren’t obligated to continue their fights after a foul. They just did. Tom was within his rights to choose to not continue there.

Unless you are one of the schmucks willing to assume for no good reason that Tom's been lying about symptoms, he had no vision in one eye, which he couldn't even open, and distinctly compromised vision in the other eye. He'd have been completely crazy to continue. That's a very different situation than compromised vision in one eye where, with adjustments, it's possible to make a good go at it even if you are at a real disadvantage; if you can keep it standing you can even make sure that you're never attacked from your blind side and manage total vision loss in one eye (it's no coincidence that Shara never goes for takedowns and that Bisping never got another takedown after losing vision in one eye, because on the ground you'll almost always be vulnerable to a strike from your blind side).

 

[snaportap21]

Unless you are one of the schmucks willing to assume for no good reason that Tom's been lying about symptoms, he had no vision in one eye, which he couldn't even open, and distinctly compromised vision in the other eye. He'd have been completely crazy to continue. That's a very different situation than compromised vision in one eye where, with adjustments, it's possible to make a good go at it even if you are at a real disadvantage; if you can keep it standing you can even make sure that you're never attacked from your blind side and manage total vision loss in one eye (it's no coincidence that Shara never goes for takedowns and that Bisping never got another takedown after losing vision in one eye, because on the ground you'll almost always be vulnerable to a strike from your blind side).

Gsp and Werdum both said they couldn’t see out of the eyes that got poked in for days after those fights that they persisted through. I said just because they did it, it doesn’t mean that Tom was obligated to as well. He’s well within his rights to stop the fight if he gets fouled. Idk what you’re disagreeing with me on, exactly.

 

[Cooliox]

Lets backup - my retina was cleared (the same test you saw Tom taking in his video) which is how you... see.

Using a die and blue light they could see my sclera was scratched (the white part of your eye that has nothing to do with vision)

Despite there being nothing wrong with my retina/vision on examination, I couldn't see clearly for DAYS and had problems with my balance.




Again, you do not need to scratch your retina to effect your vision. There are two iris muscles - they contract and dilate. This is why Tom had trouble keeping his eye open after the foul, and why its more comfortable to wear a bandage.

Aside from me explaining this to you repeatedly, just use some common sense. Take your finger and jam it into your eyeball in similar fashion you believe mimics what you see on the video with Gane. No more no less.

Come back and report if your vision is fine.

appreciate you giving an honest take, and sharing your experience, but you're clearly arguing with a troll here

trolls don't care about facts, nor about rhyme or reason- they just want to watch people fight to the death for their enjoyment... they really don't care about Tom Aspinall the human being, nor about his vision.

 

[icemun]

I genuinely feel a bit bad coming in some of these threads.

I get the impression Tom seems like a nice bloke and might actually be hurt.

But damn you mother f@ckers for being hilarious with this sh*t!

 

[icemun]

Gsp and Werdum both said they couldn’t see out of the eyes that got poked in for days after those fights that they persisted through. I said just because they did it, it doesn’t mean that Tom was obligated to as well. He’s well within his rights to stop the fight if he gets fouled. Idk what you’re disagreeing with me on, exactly.

Those guys were both champions

 

[volcom5]

I genuinely feel a bit bad coming in some of these threads.

I get the impression Tom seems like a nice bloke and might actually be hurt.

But damn you mother f@ckers for being hilarious with this sh*t!

This is exactly how I feel, I actually like Aspinall, he’s a good fighter and exciting to watch, but his “hardcore fans” the way they have been acting for the past few months has made kinda chuckle at some of the memes and posts that has been going around, at their expense, not Tom’s as getting eye poked is shitty way to go out.

 

[KBE6EKCTAH_CCP]

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It hasn’t been a quick recovery for Tom Aspinall following what transpired in the UFC 321 main event.

Aspinall’s first undisputed heavyweight title defense ended prematurely when Ciryl Gane poked him in both eyes late in the first round of their bout at Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi this past Saturday. When it was determined Aspinall couldn’t continue, the bout was ruled a no contest at the 4:35 mark of Round 1.




Three days after the bout, Aspinall is still undergoing tests to determine the severity of the injury to both eyes. The champion’s father, Andy Aspinall, provided an update on the fighter’s condition following a visit with an eye doctor on Monday.

“We got an appointment yesterday morning with a friend of ours who is one of the doctors from the UFC. He got us a private appointment at Cheadle Hospital to see an eye specialist yesterday. [The doctor] said it's bad, it's not good,” Andy Aspinall said on YouTube. “But his eye is a little bit more closed than it was. His right eye, he still can't see anything. He said it's just grey, and they tested him on words and he just couldn't see anything. His left eye, 50% — he went down about four letters and then he just couldn't see the letters. So one's really, really blurry and one's still not working.


“He [the doctor] said it was really bad, how it looks. And he said you can’t train your eyeball to be stronger — it is what it is… He could have got knocked out with a head kick next and it could have been worse.”

While Aspinall’s vision is still far from 100%, his father said it doesn’t appear the heavyweight champion will be subject to the worst-case scenario. Still, there is more to be determined with further tests in the days to come.

"He said sometimes when your eyes heal like that, it can become displaced and stay there,” Andy Aspinall said. “And they did a few tests on that and they said it doesn't seem like that, and his vision on the eye that's the best eye, his eye wasn't following properly, so the muscles weren't working strong enough to [turn]. This one [the right eye] just wasn't working that good at all, so we've got to have additional tests for this week ... He's got obviously a CT scan to see if the bones are all right, but they think the bones are all right.”

‘Everything is About His Health’​

Assuming Aspinall returns to full health, a rematch with Gane appears to be the next order of business— though it’s unclear exactly when that might be. For a concerned parent, the fighting career is not the main priority at this point in time.

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Father Gives Concerning Update on Tom Aspinall’s Condition Following UFC 321

It hasn’t been a quick recovery for Tom Aspinall following what transpired in the UFC 321 main event.

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[snaportap21]

Those guys were both champions

If either GSP or Werdum decided that they didn’t want to continue after getting poked, they would have well been within their rights.