Belcher faces possible retirement from eye injury
UFC middleweight Alan Belcher says his mixed martial arts career isn’t on his mind right now as his main focus…
UFC middleweight Alan Belcher says his mixed martial arts career isn’t on his mind right now as his main focus currently is to recover from a detached retina in his right eye.
“Worst case is I don’t get any better than this and I’m only working with one eye and then I probably don’t want to risk fighting again with only one eye, cause if I lose that one, then I’m going to be blind. So it’s just — I’m not even really thinking about fighting right now. I’m just going to wait a couple months and see where I’m at. It’s disappointing cause I was on a roll and getting close to a title [shot].”
“[The doctor] says definitely it’s not going to get better to the same, but at best, it’s going to be something like 20/40, 20/60 vision. And we could maybe do some more surgeries, laser, on the retina to flatten it out to get rid of the distortedness. Maybe some on my lens to get lasiks cause I’m like going to be really nearsighted where I can’t see anything far away and when it gets close I can almost see it. There’s probably going to be more surgeries, probably, even in the best case scenario.”
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