his YouTube channel<\/a>. \u201cSo real quick, let\u2019s talk about this. Tom\u2019s going to need, apparently, eye surgery. It will probably just be a minor thing like a realignment of the tendons but things can go wrong. Joe [Rogan] is absolutely correct, 100 percent, when he says things can go wrong.<\/p>\n\u201cMy retina was reattached after it was detached against Vitor Belfort and then it re-detached and then they fixed it again and then I got glaucoma. Because once you start messing around with the eyes, in fact just like any part of your body, once you start going in and messing around with it, it\u2019s never the same again. It\u2019s never quite as strong and things can go wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n
The repeated issues with his eye effectively forced Bisping to retire from competition. He now wears a prosthetic to cover the damaged eye as he continues working full-time on television as an analyst and color commentator for the UFC.<\/p>\n
But looking back now, Bisping acknowledges that his decision to come back too soon from his own eye issues only exacerbated the problems in the long run. That\u2019s why he\u2019s cautioning Aspinall to take the time he needs to recover before booking another fight because Bisping found out the hard way how much you can suffer otherwise.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe one thing you can\u2019t do with an eye is rush back,\u201d Bisping said. \u201cThat is the one big lesson that I learned. Because I did that. I rushed back too soon. I rushed back to sparring. I rushed back to competition and I never saw out of that eye again.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo Tom has got to take his time. If he\u2019s having surgery, he\u2019s definitely going to be out for at least a few months.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bisping also took aim at the critics claiming that Aspinall is avoiding that rematch with Gane by milking the eye injury that\u2019s leading to surgery.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome people out there, they don\u2019t know what they\u2019re talking about,\u201d Bisping said. \u201cThis is the heavyweight champion of the world. He\u2019s not a duck. He\u2019s not trying to get out of a fight. He wants to come back and kick Ciryl Gane\u2019s ass. He put that in a tweet recently. The man\u2019s pissed off and I can\u2019t wait for the comeback.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bisping admitted he doesn\u2019t know the exact procedure that Aspinall is having done but no matter what\u2019s happening, there\u2019s no such thing as minor surgery where vision is involved.<\/p>\n
As much as medical science has advanced in recent years, Bisping still couldn\u2019t save his own vision and he certainly hopes that\u2019s not what happens to Aspinall.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey did their best but ultimately I did go blind,\u201d Bisping said. \u201cBut for Tom, fingers crossed, he\u2019ll be OK.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Few people have authority enough to offer Tom Aspinall advice about his future more than UFC Hall of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,701,638,82,640,702],"class_list":{"0":"post-389417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc","15":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}