DC Doesn't Blame Stipe For Eye Poke

In their trilogy fight at UFC 252 Stipe Miocic and Daniel Cormier fought for the Heavyweight title one last time. In all three matchups eye pokes were considered a factor in the fight. But in the final bout Miocic eye poked Cormier badly, causing a serious injury to his eye. Cormier later admitted it impacted his ability to fight the rest of the bout, but believes Miocic did not do it intentionally. #danielcormier #stipemiocic #shorts #ufc

[pustindoirier]

Literally "An eye for an eye"

[rat]

DC didn't call him out on it because he'd already poked Stipe in the eye several times lmao.

[AS-pug]

Stipe just took revenge for the many pokes by dc. Dc full on deserved it.

[nomessingaround]

Dc did it on purpose in the second fight, stipe had to have surgery, started wearing glasses, when dc did it the third fight stipe was lile nah and returned the favor

[alanratay]

DC and Stipe are true legends. Neither would deliberately do something dirty.

[CoolMovieNerdPanda]

And of course, Mark Goddard, a notorious referee for early stoppages didn’t do shit about it.

[CC-njzw]

Dc was literally trying to poke Stipe a the same time, Stipe’s arms are just longer 😂

[WrathofArminius]

The slow mo of the poke made my knees weak.

[lunar]

That slow mo of DC getting poked is nasty af 😂

[andrewliscombe]

DC knows an eye poke when he sees one as he is the eye poke king

[Mofoshow]

Most importantly he respects stipe and stipe respects him true martial arts

[Kilomags]

DC said himself he dont hold anything against stipe for the eye poke and gave a very good reason why it happend to him. DC is a good dude and a real fighter

[buixrule]

That eye poke is on another level. Not even Jones can claim a poke that sick looking.

[chlorohx]

Man touched his brain for a quick second

[PaulHarwood]

I think Jon Jones got in DC’s head to the point where in the first fight DC was reaching his hands to grab Stipe’s and kept repeatedly poking him in the eye. He wanted to call out Brock Lesnar so bad because Jones had done it after defeating him (by a brutal beatdown at that). It’s like he started fighting like Jones. Kinda chilling, to be honest.

[imagineumnomefoda]

The last clips, lmfao.
"It's not like it intentional"
*Shows poking in eye

[ipredictacatastrophe]

Stipe returned the favour in the third fight. He was poked in the first fight and after the second he had eye surgery cause of the pokes

[Shootskas]

He poked the white out of Stipe's eyes. Could be why he got the knockout in the first fight.

[wajihbec]

DC, Stipe and Jones the triple optical threat.

[jacobseed]

DC eye poked Stipe multiple times in each fight, that poke from Stipe was pure revenge