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Christian Leroy Duncan authored a spectacular finish at UFC Vegas 111. | Getty/UFC
Christian Leroy Duncan came prepared for everything at UFC Vegas 111.
Duncan took on Marco Tulio in a middleweight tilt at UFC Fight Night 264 on Saturday in Las Vegas. Duncan rocked Tulio (14-2) with a spinning backfist, dropped him with a huge right hand, and the follow-up shots were hardly necessary for the referee to step in. The Englishman also earned his second straight “Performance of the Night” bonus.
Duncan (13-2) was seen rubbing his eye before finishing the fight in the second round. Whether it was due to an eye poke or a legal shot, Duncan’s left eye was clearly compromised. Duncan revealed that his eye felt like he was looking through frosted glass. However, Duncan had come prepared. Due to the rampant eye pokes in the UFC in the recent past, Duncan and his coach devised a drill to deal with them. Duncan practiced hitting the mitts with one of his eyes blindfolded for half of the round.
Just Frosted Glass
“I couldn’t see on the other side. Best way to describe it: This was just frosted glass,” Duncan said at the post-fight press conference. “One thing we were working on because of all the eye pokes that have been happening in the UFC lately — me and my coach Dan, we were doing a drill back home with the pads, where I would blindfold one eye for say two minutes of a round, then do the same on the other side. Just to kind of simulate that feeling of a poked eye. So when it happened, it wasn’t, ‘Oh, s—t.’ It was more, ‘I’ve been here, it’s familiar.’”
Duncan is 6-2 in the UFC and riding a three-fight winning streak.
This article first appeared at Recent News on Sherdog.com
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