Jones cut over eye in training, Cormier bout in no jeopardy
UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones posted a video on Instagram of a doctor stitching him up after he received a cut over his eye in training.
UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones posted a video on Instagram of a doctor stitching him up after he received a cut over his eye in training. He was not wearing headgear at the time.
Although headgear is not believed to do much to reduce head trauma, and may even increase it, its role is preventing cuts is long established
The cut will heal in just days, long before his fight with Daniel Cormier at UFC 178 on September 27. However, it poses short-lived difficulties for his training camp. Further, the stitching was clearly done in doctor’s office and not by a plastic surgeon. Given the dangerous placement of the cut over the eye, great care needs to be taken with cuts of this nature.
FYI this is a completely different scar than the one I had in that area previously, they’re not even touching… The four stitches will be out in four days. The wound should be healed within a week. Time for me to start wearing my head gear #adversityisnothing