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16th August 2020
10:36am BST

Cormier's eye was already looking pieced up and puffy, earlier in that round, but the poke only made matters worse.
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The former Olympic gold medallist later told Joe Rogan he had no vision in his left eye from that moment on. He commented:
"I couldn’t see the rest of the fight. I can’t see anything out of my left eye. It doesn’t matter. I just can’t see out of my left eye... "I told Marc [Goddard] during the fight that he poked me and he said he thought it was a punch. After the fight he said, 'Yeah, I saw it on the replay'."The vision had not returned by the time it came to post-fight interviews and Cormier was ferried straight to hospital after they wrapped. Between the third and fourth rounds, he told his corner, "I can't f***ing see!" The final two rounds saw Miocic effectively seal his heavyweight title and the 20th win of his professional career. He was the one pressing and landing combinations while Cormier was trying for the knock-out with that dangerous overhand right of his. When the final bell sounded, both men raised their arms but Miocic was the only man with his arms aloft when Goddard's lift announced him as a 49-46, 49-46, 48-47 winner. [caption id="attachment_214451" align="aligncenter" width="2048"]
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Cormier followed in the footsteps of Conor McGregor, in 2018, when he beat Miocic to become 'champ champ' at Light Heavyweight and Heavyweight and hold belts in two different divisions at the same time. Miocic avenged that loss in August 2019 and has now sent Cormier into retirement on the wrong end of a 2-1 trilogy scoreline.
"That’ll be it for me," said Cormier. "I’ve had a long run. It’s been great. I just fought my last fight for a heavyweight championship. It was a pretty good fight."UFC. president Dana White says Francis Ngannou is next up for Miocic, despite Jon Jones going on Twitter to express an interest in stepping up a weight division to challenge the 37-year-old.
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