Sports Doctor Explains Why Tom Aspinall’s Injury Was Fight Ending

[Kung Fu Kowboy]

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Renowned sports medicine doctor Brian Sutterer recently weighed in on Tom Aspinall’s eye injury.

Aspinall looked to defend his heavyweight title for the first time against Ciryl Gane in the main event at UFC 321 last weekend in Abu Dhabi. “Honey Badger” was simultaneously poked in both eyes by Gane late in the first round. The fight was declared a no contest after Aspinall failed to recover his vision.




However, some fighters and fans believe Aspinall should have continued fighting. While Chael Sonnen believes Aspinall should have continued with an injured eye, Aljamain Sterling didn’t think the eye was seriously injured in the first place. Sutterer explained why Aspinall’s eye could be more compromised than it appears. According to Sutterer, Aspinall’s eyes suffered enough trauma to impair his vision, even though they didn’t appear to be severely injured.

Doctor: ‘I Think It Was Handled Perfectly’​

“Everybody seems to lashing out at the fact that even at the hospital, afterwards, the doctor said, ‘Well there’s no serious damage.’ People thought that his eye visually looked OK,” Sutterer told Ariel Helwani. “The doctor that was covering the fight said the eye looks OK. The there's a big difference between something looking OK and something functioning OK. When you get knuckles dug deep into your eyes, not just on one side but on both sides, that's plenty of force, that’s plenty of trauma to cause your eye to not function the right way even though it might objectively look okay… I think it was handled perfectly.”

Aspinall’s father recently claimed that the heavyweight champ still can’t see out of his right eye and only has partial vision in his left eye.

Brian Stutter MD (sports medicine doctor) explains why Tom Aspinall’s eye poke was more serious than it looked

"There's a big difference between something looking ok and something functioning ok. When you get knuckles dug deep into your eyes... that's plenty of force &… pic.twitter.com/3pr69bCyoV

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Sports Doctor Explains Why Tom Aspinall’s Injury Was Fight Ending

Renowned sports medicine doctor Brian Sutterer recently weighed in on Tom Aspinall’s eye injury.

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[Fight Professor]

A US doctor is not never going to blame the patient/victim or another US doctor. It has to do with professional ethics.

 

[AndrewGolota48]

A US doctor is not never going to blame the patient/victim or another US doctor. It has to do with professional ethics.

Plus in this case, with a doctor already assessing that there is no serious damage, and this doctor also agreeing, that aspect is established....thus the additional EXPERTISE we need is not medical, it's from fighters, as they know the situation from first hand experience.

It's not like we're now solving some advanced question of modern medicine or theoretical physics anymore, that part is already established and no one is debating it. We are now in the realm of the response FROM A FIGHTER'S standpoint to what we know occurred medically.

And world class elite champions like TJ Dillashaw (arguable GOAT of division) have made it abundantly clear what their expert opinion is.

 

[Lou Duva]

Honey badger nickname been taken by tyrann mathieu .. get another one aspinall it sounds lame on you nobody calls you that

 

[Tibbles]

"When you get knuckles dug deep into your eyes, not just on one side but on both sides, that's plenty of force, that’s plenty of trauma to cause your eye to not function the right way"

Deep medical analysis right here.

 

[SKYNET]

 

[Mohawk Banditó]

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Renowned sports medicine doctor Brian Sutterer recently weighed in on Tom Aspinall’s eye injury.

Aspinall looked to defend his heavyweight title for the first time against Ciryl Gane in the main event at UFC 321 last weekend in Abu Dhabi. “Honey Badger” was simultaneously poked in both eyes by Gane late in the first round. The fight was declared a no contest after Aspinall failed to recover his vision.




However, some fighters and fans believe Aspinall should have continued fighting. While Chael Sonnen believes Aspinall should have continued with an injured eye, Aljamain Sterling didn’t think the eye was seriously injured in the first place. Sutterer explained why Aspinall’s eye could be more compromised than it appears. According to Sutterer, Aspinall’s eyes suffered enough trauma to impair his vision, even though they didn’t appear to be severely injured.

Doctor: ‘I Think It Was Handled Perfectly’​

“Everybody seems to lashing out at the fact that even at the hospital, afterwards, the doctor said, ‘Well there’s no serious damage.’ People thought that his eye visually looked OK,” Sutterer told Ariel Helwani. “The doctor that was covering the fight said the eye looks OK. The there's a big difference between something looking OK and something functioning OK. When you get knuckles dug deep into your eyes, not just on one side but on both sides, that's plenty of force, that’s plenty of trauma to cause your eye to not function the right way even though it might objectively look okay… I think it was handled perfectly.”

Aspinall’s father recently claimed that the heavyweight champ still can’t see out of his right eye and only has partial vision in his left eye.

Hmm, so there's another one in on the scheme.

The plot thickens!

 

[egk]

"When you get knuckles dug deep into your eyes, not just on one side but on both sides, that's plenty of force, that’s plenty of trauma to cause your eye to not function the right way"

Deep medical analysis right here.

"Fighting, getting punched, kneed , kicked or poked in the face, bending joints in ways they're not designed to go. It's all bad for your health. Everyone should stop fighting." - Doctors everywhere.

 

[BEATDOWNS]

Gane is dirty deal with it.

 

[Pittie Petey]

Yea, but this was the doctor

 

[AndrewGolota48]

"Fighting, getting punched, kneed , kicked or poked in the face, bending joints in ways they're not designed to go. It's all bad for your health. Everyone should stop fighting." - Doctors everywhere.

Imagine if you asked a doctor if Kongo should've quit at any point against Pat Barry before he came back and got the KO....how are they supposed to answer that? They would say of fucking course, he should've stopped after the first incidence of head trauma.

 

[fendertach]

Bro if you stub your toe and go to the doctor, they tell you to take a couple days off work. Fake news.

 

[b00tysweat]

Go ask your family physician if he recommends you enter a professional cage fight

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[markg171]

I've been reliably told that diagnosing patients you haven't seen yourself is malpractice.

Imagine believing this Ariel influencer doctor instead of all the doctors who have actually examined Tom and have been completely flabbergasted at him pretending anything was wrong.

 

[markg171]

Plus in this case, with a doctor already assessing that there is no serious damage, and this doctor also agreeing, that aspect is established....thus the additional EXPERTISE we need is not medical, it's from fighters, as they know the situation from first hand experience.

It's not like we're now solving some advanced question of modern medicine or theoretical physics anymore, that part is already established and no one is debating it. We are now in the realm of the response FROM A FIGHTER'S standpoint to what we know occurred medically.

And world class elite champions like TJ Dillashaw (arguable GOAT of division) have made it abundantly clear what their expert opinion is.

I'm surprised more fighters haven't focused on the fact that there was only 30 seconds left in the round before Tom would've gotten anther 1 minute break too.

He very much opted out earlier.

 

[usernamee]

A US doctor is not never going to blame the patient/victim or another US doctor. It has to do with professional ethics.

They're also always going to go with the "safe" answer. What kind of doctor would go out on the line and say "Yeah, eye was fine, could've kept on punching it no problem!"

Doctors say to fighters that they shouldn't fight ALL THE TIME when they come in to their office with this or that. But it's always just their recommendation, because any other recommendation would be crazy to make for a doctor.

 

[Khaosan]

Delicious tears.

 

[mkess101]

Plus in this case, with a doctor already assessing that there is no serious damage, and this doctor also agreeing, that aspect is established....thus the additional EXPERTISE we need is not medical, it's from fighters, as they know the situation from first hand experience.

It's not like we're now solving some advanced question of modern medicine or theoretical physics anymore, that part is already established and no one is debating it. We are now in the realm of the response FROM A FIGHTER'S standpoint to what we know occurred medically.

And world class elite champions like TJ Dillashaw (arguable GOAT of division) have made it abundantly clear what their expert opinion is.

That's fucking retarded, you cannot be that stupid.

This doctor literally explained that there's a difference between an eye LOOKING OKAY and an eye FUNCTIONING PROPERLY and your response is "Derp let's ask renowned steroid cheat TJ Dillashaw what he thinks!"

Fuck you should go away. For your own good lmao.

 

[nostradumbass]

Sherdog posters with downs syndrome who haven't left their room in years > some doctor and the fighter who got his eyes gouged.

 

[mkess101]

I've been reliably told that diagnosing patients you haven't seen yourself is malpractice.

Imagine believing this Ariel influencer doctor instead of all the doctors who have actually examined Tom and have been completely flabbergasted at him pretending anything was wrong.

Another take that's so retarded that words can't even convey the level of retardation. He's not "diagnosing" Aspinall. He's explaining to window lickers like you that any doctor who DID look at the eyes could determine they LOOK OKAY but can't determine if they are FUNCTIONING PROPERLY.

These concepts are clearly far beyond your level of comprehension apparently. Which is pathetic given how very simple and obvious they are.