Justin Gaethje calls out UFC over ‘s— gloves’ that trigger eyepokes

One other week, one other eye poke controversy at a UFC occasion.

At this level, unintentional eye pokes throughout fights are simply part of the game. Regardless of what number of occasions one fighter may stick his fingers into the eyes of one other fighter, we deem it unintentional and infrequently even take some extent over the matter.

UFC Atlantic Metropolis featured a struggle between Chris Weidman and Bruno Silva that featured a number of unpunished eye pokes, together with two within the ending stanza that led to a Weidman win. Nothing will be executed about it, proper?

Mistaken.

Fellow UFC fighter and UFC 300 co-main participant Justin Gaethje has simply weighed in on the New Jersey state of affairs with a refined reminder that the promotion is semi-responsible for all the attention pokes of their fights.

“Too unhealthy UFC don’t need to change these s— gloves,” he wrote on X (previously Twitter).

That’s proper: fighters are nicely conscious that the official UFC gloves are at fault for lots of eye pokes. The stiff leather-based pulls your hand open, leaving fingers outstretched which is a key concern in relation to unintentional eye accidents. We’ve identified this for years.

Gaethje is particularly conscious of this as a result of his coach Trevor Wittman developed his personal MMA glove referred to as the ONX glove which curves the hand so it’s almost inconceivable to your fingers to be within the outstretched place.

In line with Joe Rogan, the UFC has seemed on the glove and had been all for utilizing them however determined to not as a result of Wittman wouldn’t promote them the design outright.

So subsequent time you see a struggle ruining eye poke, do not forget that the UFC is nicely conscious their gloves are poorly designed and trigger eye pokes. Know that there are higher gloves on the market that may stop eye pokes. And perceive that it’s a alternative by the promotion to not use them.