TheRealGameOn
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I took me time to decide if I would jeopardize my career and put into words the nightmare night I have been through after my fight in Jakarta
I have to come back to the event of the night of my fight as it might help other fighters, fix some major issues with OneC and avoid future medical disasters.
My point is not to damage the image of One Championship. This story line reflect a serious fault in their medical protocol and follow up of injured fighters with head and facial traumas that could have lead to something really serious. It should not happen ever again.
If you didn't see my fight, I got the upper hand in the first round, fight been almost stopped due to my Ground and Pound in the first round; and then I came short in the Second Round. Got my right eyebrow sliced open early in the first round and then Ko'ed in the second round on a nose blowing right straight by my opponent.
I go Ko'ed in the Cage then walked out on the cage (Pride and Ego took over) then away from the eyes of the crowd, I passed out again, face planted spitting blood, in the tunnel heading to the lockers.
I had a brief check up by the OneC official doctor who was obviously a little lost with the situation, got a fast check out, then my cornermen took decision to bring me to the hospital.
OneC appointed an ambulance and with assistance of a LO (OneC Liaison Officer) speaking local Bahasa Indonesian language...we headed surprisingly to a public hospital. If you never seen a public hospital in Indonesia, there is nothing common with private clinic or Hospital in Europe. Its a real eye opener. It looks like a war hospital. I had couple of Stitches in Thailand after some Muay Thai fights....it was cleaner than this one.
So I was put on a gurney in the Emergency Room of this Public Hospital, parked in the hallway between a poor singing old woman who was totally losing it (and was sadly peeing/shitting on herself) and on my left side, surrealistic, a girl was amputated following a motorbike accident. She was literally getting an amputation of half of her foot a meter from me by a doctor...
If this is not awkward enough, just remember I have been Koed and passed out twice 2H ago...and nothing been done yet.
Then the situation gets weirder when OneC order our LO (only one able to translate and our only source of communication with the medical staff) to leave the hospital because there is nothing she can do there .and that the Official OneC Doctor will come after the show)". My cornermen refused the LO departure and asked another LO to take over till the Doctor of OneC showed himself.
Around 1.30am, got into an X-ray of my face (Not the most important procedure. The CT scan should be the priority) and it shows that my septum (bone of the nose) is totally fragmented due to the strikes.
After 5H of waiting, still no CT scan done....remember I got Ko'ed and passed out outside of the cage (OneC Doctor was present and saw this happening)....but Doctor decide that it might be time to stitch my eyebrow....and get me a Tetanus shot as he took them a horrible amount of time to get this done...
Decide to sleep a little, close my eyes for 3H....early morning still nobody from OneC. Doctor of OneC is suppose to show at 8am to assist the hospital. We are already 9H after the fight. No brain check has been done.
Sadly, the OneC doctor would never show at the hospital. (This is for me one of the major and inexcusable fault of the company)
My cornermen arrive back from the Hotel with clothes for me. It is about 9am.
Doctors of Public hospital arrived around 11am and get into a meeting with my cornermen. Announcing the CT scan should have been done as soon as possible after the fight, bleeding of the brain can be fatal after a KO) and that it has to be done asap but they have NO CT SCAN here. WTF!!!
My cornermen took the decision to transfer me to a private wing of the hospital without waiting for a reaction of OneC who is visibly not interested in my desperate situation (Most of the ONEC crew already flew back to Singapore, there is no OneC staff anymore in Indonesia)
I was transferred to the Emergency Room of the private wing at 12.30pm and the CT Scan was finally done at 3pm. More than 15H AFTER THE FIGHT....
As a professional athletes, working for a company (OneC) who claims that "the safety of their athletes comes first"....I honestly think the night of the 27th was a major disaster and completely unprofessional. It could have lead to a serious and dramatic situation; that OneC showed a real lack of support.
I can sell the tickets, promote the fight, give my all in the cage and bleed to entertain the fans...but after I risked my life in it, I think I deserve to be supported and respected as an athlete but also as a father. If I had a brain damage that night....I would not be here anymore to support my family, due to the lack of professionalism of OneC and I doubt they would take care of my son for me.
I will not top up the story by saying I didn't even had a word of support (by email or messenger) from the staff director of the company, Mr. Cui or Mr. Hume; till I start posted how upset I was against OneC on the 1st of October.
I guess that it is ethic to send a message of "support" when your athlete is having a serious facial trauma and stuck in the hospital after performing in your show. If it was my show, I would even take of my private time to visit the athlete at the hospital because at the end, there would be no MMA shows without the guys who bleed in it....the fighters.
As part of this message, I don't feel safe anymore to compete in OneC. I think they just broke the elementary rule of any sports event. The respect, integrity and safety of athletes.
I didn't try to make it sensational or dramatic. I don't neither spit my venom after one more loss in my record. Even if I would have won the fight, i would have still made it public. Nobody should jeopardise his own life so that mega corporate companies make money on it.
Thanks for taking the time of reading this long message.
Arnaud "TheGame" Lepont
