As he compiled a 13-fight unbeaten streak from 2016 to 2023, Leon Edwards became a UFC champion and one of the top pound-for-pound athletes in the sport. How quickly things can change.

They felt that he poked his rival in the eye on route to the victory and as such it was not a legitimate win. Manel Kape has proven to be a controversial figure over his brief tenure in the UFC ...

This scenario unfolded in the main event at UFC APEX in Las Vegas, where what initially appeared to be an accidental eye poke became a point of controversy. Manel Kape, however, firmly denies that ...

Manel Kape is shrugging off the debate surrounding his knockout victory against Asu Almabayev. Earlier this month at UFC Vegas 103, Kape put on a striking clinic, overwhelming Almabayev with speed ...

However, the victory came with a heap of controversy after Kape appeared to poke his opponent in the eye multiple times — once in the second round and then again in the third. Despite the foul ...

He continued, “It was not an eye poke that made the fight, that finished the fight. I was beating him. People go and find excuses because it was me. People want to find an excuse. There’s a type of ...

In his second foray at heavyweight, “Bones” was utterly dominant once again at UFC 309, hammering former champ Stipe Miocic with ... due to an untimely eye poke, in the rematch Muhammad ...

The main fight between Henry Cejudo and Song Yadong ended with an eye poke incident favoring Yadong. The Washington State Department of Licensing released the official fighter payouts, with Song ...

a UFC main event was plagued by the dreaded eye poke. UFC Seattle’s main event loser, Henry Cejudo, could not continue after Song Yadong logged his finger into “Triple C’s” eye socket.

Just four days after his surprise reunion with R.E.M. at the 40 Watt Club in Athens, Georgia, Michael Stipe performed at the annual Tibet House benefit at New York’s Carnegie Hall on a packed ...