If UFC 203 felt a little familiar to you, maybe that was on account of all the eye-poking.
When Urijah Faber caught Jimmie Rivera, it wasn’t his first eye-poke rodeo. It wasn’t even his first eye-poke rodeo with a guy named Rivera.
And in the co-main event, you had infamous pokester Travis Browne going ham on Fabricio Werdum’s ocular cavity. He was in up to his second knuckle.
Both of these incidents got us thinking here in the newsroom. There have been quite a few notable eye pokes recently (after all, if the ref isn’t going to penalize you, why stop?). Browne and Faber in particular have remarkable bodies of work in this area.
So what, then, are the pokiest eye pokes in recent UFC memory? Who did them, and what happened? Read on for far more information than you could ever want or need on this particular topic.
Pokes are ranked based on pokiness. What makes a poke more pokey than others? Visual damage, for one, but also its potential impact on the bout.