Ante Delija treated Waldo Cortes-Acosta the way Pai Mei treated Elle Driver in Kill Bill, which kept the eye poke conversation going in the wake of this main event disaster last month in Abu Dhabi. Fortunately, “Salsa Boy” did not suffer any permanent damage and is slowly traveling the road to recovery.
“My body feels perfect, the only thing is my eye,” Cortes-Acosta told Hablemos MMA (transcribed by MMA Junkie). “I still feel a lot of discomfort on my eye. Once the acetaminophen
wears off, it feels like I have something in my eye and I have to do the process again, and put in the eye drops the doctor game me. But all in all good. I went to the doctor this morning and the doctor told me everything is looking good in terms of recovery. I do have a cut behind my eyelid, my eye is scratched, and on top of the eye I’m having inflammation.”
The half-blind Cortes-Acosta managed to finish Delija in the co-main event of UFC Vegas 110 last weekend in Las Vegas after a somewhat wacky stop-start halt to the action. Delija continues to argue against the referee’s decision; however, the technical knockout finish is expected to stand.
“It’s night and day,” Cortes-Acosta continued. “When I was driving back home, every 30 minutes, I would feel pressure and a lot of pain. It was like in the fight, when I knocked him out, and I did a big effort, that’s when I felt a pain and I dropped to the ground. I just need to rest now, let the days go by. I’m going to see another specialist on Thursday to see everything is matching the way it is supposed to, everything is healing correctly, and we take it from there. I’m seeing someone who specializes more internal damage to see how everything is going.”
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