Colby Covington spoke out Monday on YouTube, decrying the truth that his UFC bout in opposition to Joaquin Buckley on Saturday in Tampa was stopped within the third spherical as a result of extreme bleeding from a reduce above his proper eye.
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Nevertheless, UFC legend Chael Sonnen, who was in Covington’s nook through the struggle, revealed that he practically threw within the towel to finish the competition earlier than the physician stepped in.
” busted open so bad that the doctor has to look at it three times,” Sonnen stated on his YouTube channel. “Twice, he stops the action to let it keep going. The third time, he goes, ‘We can’t keep going anymore.’
“I used to be going to cease that struggle. I already grabbed the towel. When the physician got here in for the third time, and I am watching that blood it isn’t stopping. It’s going into the attention, and that is the one factor you are actually searching for.
“When we as fight fans, we as tough guys, think the doctor should’ve stopped it we’re talking about it doesn’t really matter how bad the cut is from our perspective, as long as it’s not going in the eye. If it’s blinding the guy, it doesn’t matter if it’s a little or a lot. If it’s in his eye and he can no longer see out of that eye, it’s the exact same thing. … This was bad, and it was in the eye. I said, ‘Hand me that towel, I’m stopping this.'”
Covington had a distinct perspective after his first bout in a 12 months.
“I was just getting warmed up in that fight,” he stated on his YouTube channel. “I think it was tied up 1-1 , and I was starting to wear on him. I could see him breathing out of his mouth. I was starting to catch him with more shots, so it’s unfortunate that they stopped it.
“Even Dana got here out and stated, ‘If that was in Vegas, that will have by no means been stopped.’ I took his hardest photographs, and so they have been nothing. They did not faze me in any respect. I used to be strolling proper down, so we’ll come again stronger.”
Buckley improved his MMA report to 21-6.
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