We have seen some nasty battle wounds suffered by those involved in combat sports, but the eye injury suffered by Matt Mitrione may be the worst ever.
Mitrione was poked in the eye twice during his fight against Travis Browne for the UFC Fight Night card. Browne said the eye pokes were inadvertent, but they did a lot of damage and made it extremely difficult for Mitrione to compete. He ended up losing by TKO in the third round.
Browne said he apologized for the eye pokes:
Browne: I was up and down apologizing to Matt. I’m not a dirty fighter. I was telling him during the fight.
— MMAFighting.com (@MMAFighting) January 18, 2016
Mitrione said after the fight that they bothered him:
I'm sorry I lost tonight. If this was my last fight, I wanted to go out on my shield. The eye pokes had an effect but things happen
— Matt Mitrione (@mattmitrione) January 18, 2016
OK, now that we got all that out of the way, it’s time to unveil to you the most gruesome eye injury you could imagine. Keep in mind that Mitrione said later that his eye injury was a broken orbital floor. Buckle up, because this is a nasty one.
Bro. Photo by @powersimagery. pic.twitter.com/z1bQPPQopy
— Brett Okamoto (@bokamotoESPN) January 18, 2016
Holy heck is that gross. It looks like an alien coming out of his eye.
Had to do it. #UFCBoston #Kuato @SBNation pic.twitter.com/34KxJBNylS
— Heavens! (@HeavensHawkeye) January 18, 2016
He also hurt his shoulder too.
@BloodyElbow everyone's talking about the eye but look at the shoulder pic.twitter.com/T2RjsOgKwR
— Cody (@cal_tweets_mma) January 18, 2016
At least the eye looked slightly better after the fight:
Broken orbital floor. This and the shoulder happened after the 2nd eye poke. I don't think they would've happened pic.twitter.com/wFn1NC3j5Y
— Matt Mitrione (@mattmitrione) January 18, 2016
Get well soon, Matt.
