Accidental injuries are an unfortunate reality in combat sports. Whether a fighter is winning or losing, a single mishap can ...
The UFC is officially doing away with the new gloves in all fights, as multiple fighters revealed several issues with the new ...
Chael Sonnen suggests a glove redesign and stricter penalties to prevent eye pokes in MMA after recent controversial ...
Cejudo was stripped of the opportunity to break a two-fight losing streak when Yadong extended his fingers into both eyes during a fighting exchange. The former double-champ was denied a point ...
And when the UFC announced that it had done tons of research and spent a bunch of money to design new gloves, many of us quite reasonably thought that limiting eye pokes would be the priority.
The UFC brought in new gloves last year, but eye pokes continued and fighters complained about them. They were officially scrapped for good ahead of UFC Vegas 102, which took place on February 15.
Manel Kape dismisses the eye poke controversy after his UFC Vegas 103 win, insisting it didn’t impact the fight as critics try to discredit his victory.
After the recent eye poke incident at UFC Seattle, Jim Miller has come up ... Miller believes the problem extends beyond the gloves and stems from a “win at all costs” mentality that many ...
Manel Kape's third-round TKO win over Asu Almabayev was tainted by multiple eye pokes that went unpunished by the referee. This drew the attention of former UFC middleweight-turned-PFL fighter ...