Having been a victim of them himself, Henry Cejudo believes eye pokes should be severely penalized.
The debate around eye pokes resurfaced following Tom Aspinall’s heavyweight title defense against Ciryl Gane at UFC 321 last weekend in Abu Dhabi. The fight ended in an unfortunate no contest after Aspinall failed to recover from a double eye poke from Gane in the first round.
Cejudo was the victim of a similar foul in his most recent outing against Song Yadong this past February. Cejudo was severely poked in the left eye in the third round and couldn’t recover his vision.