UFC bantamweight Pedro Munhoz revealed he suffered an injury as a result of a fight-ending foul Saturday. At UFC 276 , the fight between Munhoz and Sean O’Malley ended in a no contest due to an inadvertent eye poke . Midway through Round 2, O’Malley’s fingers raked Munhoz’s face and rendered the Brazilian fighter unable to continue, according to the cageside physician’s assessment. Hours after the fight, Munhoz said the diagnosis from a hospital visit was a scratched cornea. “To explain briefly what happened in the fight against Sean O’Malley, I was poked in the eye in the first round but kept fighting, and was hit with a low blow shortly after,” Munhoz said in Portuguese (English translation via MMA Fighting ). “The fight restarted and we exchanged a few strikes

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Pedro Munhoz says Sean O’Malley scratched his cornea at UFC 276: ‘I couldn’t see anything’ – MMA Junkie

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