“I spent 40 hours with my eye bleeding and closed”: brutal story of a boxing figure after losing KO the world title fight

It was one of the most anticipated battles of recent times. Errol Spence Jr. reappeared more than a year after his last performance. Opposite he had, nothing more and nothing less, than the Cuban warrior Yordenis Ugas, who counted as the most recent scroll the unanimous triumph against Manny Pacquiao. The meeting of these two pugilists was a real war above the ring that ended in round 10 when Judge Laurence Cole stopped the activity because Ugas's eye was already completely inflamed.

A week after that long-awaited event that took place at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, United States, the 35-year-old Cuban fighter decided to make a completely shocking post on his social networks with details of the problem he had in the area punished by Spence Jr. over the course of ten rounds. “Thank you to everyone who continues to send their prayers and good wishes. There are thousands of messages that are impossible to respond to. My eye was thus closed and bleeding for almost 40 hours, but it is already open,” he began his extensive post in which he shared a close-up photo of the damage he had to the eye.

* This was Spence Jr.'s victory against Ugas

“In the next few days, with God's favor when the swelling and bruising are at zero we will return to the doctor, to know exactly the next step. I think I was in a competitive fight, until in the 7th the coup came, which is part of boxing and Spence took over. I fought three more rounds with my eye like this, I'm a champion, I'm a warrior and no matter what the pain, no matter how hard Spence ever gave me, I was never going to give up,” he revived about that impact of the American that complicated his physique.

“I don't have a damn idea what round 9 went like, but the only thing I remember is that I came to my corner and said inside I'm going to turn this around. He is a world-class fighter and he came tougher in the 10th. I hear two, three little things that they say around and it hurts me because they are Cuban, and you as a fan can say that one more blow was missing, one less, but never judge, nor question my professionalism and commitment, I don't forgive that. But nothing, my family, my team, my friends and most Cubans are proud of me and what I represent. I cannot wait with God's favor to return to that arena and proudly represent my community and continue to elevate my message. Homeland and Life”, concluded the text.

Ugas scored his fifth defeat — the first by KO — in 32 appearances, considering that he has a record of 27 wins (12KO). The match brought three world welterweight belts into play: World Boxing Council (WBC), World Boxing Association (WBA) and International Boxing Federation (IBF). All were left in the hands of Spence Jr., who stretched his undefeated professional that already has 28 wins (22KO) and a zero in falls.

The New York-born fighter had last performed on December 12, 2020 with a unanimous victory against Danny Garcia. It is not only his statistics that impact, since this 32-year-old pugilist recorded wins against Mikey Garcia, Shawn Porter and Kell Brook, beyond the aforementioned Danny García and Ugas.

It should be noted that in October 2019 his life was at risk when he staged a shocking car accident aboard his Ferrari.

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