There's levels to toughness

[El Fernas]

Somehow the eye with the not so bad looking poke was the one more affected.

 

[JBJ was here]

Somehow the eye with the not so bad looking poke was the one more affected.

Both eye pokes were really fucking horrible looking. Just try poking your finger a half inch into the corner of one eye and then squeezing halfway across the eye socket while sticking another finger under your other eyelid and pushing in and towards the top of the eye socket. I'll bet you both eyes hurt like hell, but which one hurts more would, shall we say, be a matter of details that remain unspecified.

And the fact that one eye was open doesn't mean both eyes weren't hurt. With one eye open and not focusing well you can usually navigate fine and even read if the writing is large enough; with two eyes open, both out of focus and out of sync with each other, you can't do shit and will likely vomit if you keep it up too long. Your brain trying to make a 3D image out of two very different and out of focus images makes bad things happen. If you need to see and both eyes are hurt, the reflexive action is to keep one eye closed. If Tom couldn't open either eye, we'd likely be hearing about his retirement already.

 

[Richard Fannin]

But what are your thoughts?

Reminds me of GSP vs Penn 1... in the first minute of the first round, BJ stuck 2 knucles into Georges's right eye but he kept going half blind and won the damn thing.
He had to go to the hospital right after and his retina was scratched, but he still kept going and won.

Jake Shields also infamously eye poked/raked GSP several times and after round 3 he was blind in his left eye. Jake Shields was so shameless, at times he was barely trying to hide what he was doing

But he kept going strong

St. Pierre - “I can’t see with my left eye.”

Jackson - “It doesn’t matter. You’ve got one eye, it’s fine. Listen to me, Georges. Ignore that, you’ve got one eye, you’re fine. Look at me. You’re fine. You can see me, you can see the punches. Now listen. Relax, calm down, find your center.”

St-Pierre (22-2) complained of visions problems in his left eye during his decision win over Jake Shields at UFC 129 on Saturday. Zahabi believes the problem occurred in the third round when Shields connected with a left with his fingers outstretched.

"He complained to me after that round that he couldn’t see out of his eye and it was just getting worse," said Zahabi, who accompanied the champion to hospital. "By Round 5, I guess the blood had accumulated and he was having a lot of difficulty seeing.

Zahabi said the initial fear was that it was a detached retina.

"But it wasn’t. His eye’s going to be fine," he said. "It was a little scary … he did the eye test and failed it. And they couldn’t see inside his eye because there was an obstruction inside the eye.
"It turned out to be just blood and not a detached retina. So he’s very lucky that there is no permanent injury there."

"He’s got to take 10 days off. There was some bleeding inside the eye from the fight."

But sadly, considering the vision problems that later plaggued "Rush", he was probably too tough for his own good... he couldn't even spar while preparing for the initial Bisping fight because of that.

Speaking to Justin Kingsley at the C2 Montreal conference Friday, St-Pierre (25-2) said he suffered the injury before the UFC announced he would fight middleweight champion Michael Bisping back in March.
According to St-Pierre, the UFC was aware of his injury and time frame for recovery but still asked him to fight in July. He has refused to do so.

"If it were up to me, I would come back," St-Pierre told Kingsley, according to MMAFighting.com. "The reason is I had a problem with my eye. I had an injury.

"My vision has not been back yet. It will be back. It's something very minor. The doctor insisted for me that I don't spar until September.

"The UFC was aware of it. They knew I couldn't fight during the summer, but they still insisted on doing that press conference with Michael Bisping.

"Thankfully", Bisping also suffered a minor injury while training so the UFC had no choice but to postpone the fight.
For the whole story =>
(I forgot that GSP also had a neck injury in that one, damn... safety should be first)

 

[Jonjonesgonemad]

Reminds me of GSP vs Penn 1... in the first minute of the first round, BJ stuck 2 knucles into Georges's right eye but he kept going half blind and won the damn thing.
He had to go to the hospital right after and his retina was scratched, but he still kept going and won.

Jake Shields also infamously eye poked/raked GSP several times and after round 3 he was blind in his left eye. Jake Shields was so shameless, at times he was barely trying to hide what he was doing

But he kept going strong

But sadly, considering the vision problems that later plaggued "Rush", he was probably too tough for his own good... he couldn't even spar while preparing for the initial Bisping fight because of that.



"Thankfully", Bisping also suffered a minor injury while training so the UFC had no choice but to postpone the fight.
For the whole story =>
(I forgot that GSP also had a neck injury in that one, damn... safety should be first)

That's my GOAT St-Pierre

 

[anachronist]

1. He could see just fine because he was watching the replays in his post fight interview " See! Knookle deep!"
2. He quit because things weren't going his way

1. oh because glancing at a gigantic screen is the same as watching small movements in a fight - go back to studying your middle school algebra, will help you with your no existent reasoning skills
2. neither of us know about 2. but its safe to say that no championship level fighter quits like that
summary: you are an idiot, who's wrong on 2 counts (mind u, out of 2)