Mohammad Yahya suffered a loss at UFC Abu Dhabi on Saturday however he one way or the other escaped severe damage regardless of his eye ballooning up from the harm he absorbed in his combat in opposition to Steven Nguyen.
After turning into the sufferer for essentially the most knockdowns in a single combat in UFC historical past following six journeys to the canvas, Yahya was sporting severe swelling round his left eye. A reduce beneath the attention didn’t assist however the swelling was so extreme that he clearly couldn’t see something out of that aspect of his face after the second spherical ended.
It didn’t take referee Jason Herzog lengthy to take a look at Yahya’s face and know the combat was already over.
Judging by the quantity of injury he was carrying round his eye, it appeared virtually a certainty that Yahya possible suffered a damaged orbital bone or one thing else extreme however that wasn’t the case.
In the course of the UFC Abu Dhabi broadcast, it was confirmed that whereas Yahya did go to a neighborhood medical facility for therapy, he truly suffered “no facial fractures” because of the loss.
That’s good however albeit considerably stunning information given the best way Yahya appeared afterwards with UFC CEO Dana White posting a photograph him backstage after leaving the octagon.
The loss dropped Yahya to 0-3 within the UFC and it’s potential that whereas he averted severe damage, he could not get to stay round on the roster for much longer after this newest setback.
