Jon Jones was one of the biggest proponents of complaining about the new gloves which prompted the promotion to go back to ...
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.
Joe Rogan’s interesting take on eye pokes in the UFC emphasizes the urgent need for a solution to prevent fight-altering injuries. He claimed modified gloves with a leather sliver over the ...
The controversial eye poke ... of 45 UFC fights, Miller believes his experience lends some credibility to his claims. “I’ve come to these conclusions after being taped into those gloves ...
Accidental injuries are an unfortunate reality in combat sports. Whether a fighter is winning or losing, a single mishap can ...
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 ...