Ozzy Diaz scored his first win contained in the Octagon at UFC 313.
After arising brief in his promotional debut late final yr, Diaz delivered a powerful three-round efficiency, securing himself a unanimous determination victory over Djorden Santos.
Sadly, Diaz’s celebrating can be lower brief. 4 days faraway from his large win in Las Vegas, Diaz revealed on social media that he underwent emergency surgical procedure to restore a indifferent retina in his left eye.
“What’s up, guys? Simply acquired house from the physician’s and needed to replace you on precisely what occurred,” Diaz informed his followers on Instagram. “In that first spherical, I assume a punch landed, and my retina acquired torn. I couldn’t see for your entire combat. So I went to the physician in the present day, and yeah, they needed to rush me to a retina specialist. They used a laser to seal the retina so no extra blood would get between.
“I’m simply so grateful for the UFC, Dana White, and Mick Maynard for making this occur so shortly,” Diaz added. “The laser surgical procedure went very effectively, and as you may see, it’s fairly disgusting. I’m going to be out for a number of weeks, however as soon as I’m healed up, I’ll get again in there and do it once more.”
Fortunately, the attention surgical procedure was successful.
Ozzy Diaz couldn’t see by way of a majority of his combat at uFC 313
Talking with Joe Rogan following his win over Santos, Diaz revealed that the sight in his left eye had utterly disappeared following an early alternate.
“I don’t know what occurred within the first alternate, I couldn’t see from my left eye so I needed to get in that paint, I needed to dig deep,” Diaz mentioned within the Octagon. “It was f*cking powerful, I couldn’t see for like, we had one alternate at first and that was it, my left eye, I couldn’t see.”
General, the California native is 10-3 in his professional MMA profession with two of his wins coming beneath the Bellator banner adopted by a 4-0 run within the LFA.
