{"id":70299,"date":"2013-10-01T10:51:47","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T17:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=70299"},"modified":"2022-02-06T12:48:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T20:48:31","slug":"michael-bisping-devastated-over-near-career-ending-eye-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/michael-bisping-devastated-over-near-career-ending-eye-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Bisping &#8216;Devastated&#8217; Over Near Career Ending Eye Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/bisping.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-54907\" title=\"bisping\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/bisping.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/bisping.png 390w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/bisping-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/bisping-361x250.png 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\n&#8220;(I&#8217;m) devastated. I trained so hard for this fight. And not only that, it&#8217;s hard for the people of Manchester and the people of the U.K. to part ways with their hard-earned money to buy a ticket, so I apologize to all the fans and everybody who bought a ticket. I was fearing the worst. I was fearing that they would say a detached retina, and possibly a career ending injury. So the stubborn old fool inside of me said, \u2018I&#8217;ll do it later, I&#8217;ll do it later.&#8217; When the injury regressed to where I literally couldn&#8217;t see my hand in front of my face, that&#8217;s when I thought, okay, that is enough. It was last Tuesday. Everything was fine, and then I walked into the cage to do some wrestling drills. When I walked in, the light kind of went a little strange. That&#8217;s when I first noticed something.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;After that, I had to go to L.A. to do some work with Jon Anik and Mark Munoz on Inside the Octagon. We were filming a thing obviously to promote the fight. So I drove out there, and progressively throughout the day the eye was getting worse and worse. I remember I did the interview with Jon Anik and Mark Munoz, and I could hardly see anything.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The [Retina Institute] said, \u2018Yep, your retina is re-detached. Obviously I couldn&#8217;t believe it. They said we need to operate ASAP. And I said, \u2018Well I&#8217;m still fighting in four weeks, so you can&#8217;t operate. Simple as that.&#8217; They said, &#8216;You can&#8217;t do that. You&#8217;ll go blind.&#8217; I said, \u2018I&#8217;ve got to fight in four weeks. Thousands of people have bought tickets, they&#8217;re expecting me there&#8230; I was devastated. Then he said, \u2018You&#8217;ve got a ways to go if you&#8217;re ever going to fight again.&#8217; Then I was just completely in shock. This is who I am. This is what I do. It defines who I am as a person.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to his interview with &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2013\/9\/30\/4788362\/michael-bisping-devastated-by-detached-retina-that-nearly-derailed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The MMA Hour<\/a>&#8216; Michael Bisping&#8217;s career may indeed be over if he cannot bounce back from his recent eye surgery.<\/p>\n<p>The top middleweight fighter was scheduled to face off with MArk Munoz in Manchester, England, but a sudden detached Retina forced him off the card and may actually halt his fighting all-together if it cannot be repaired properly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;(I&#8217;m) devastated. I trained so hard for this fight. And not only that, it&#8217;s hard for the people of Manchester and the people of the U.K. to part ways with their hard-earned money to buy a ticket, so I apologize to all the fans and everybody who bought a ticket. I was fearing the worst. 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