Cong
Wang says an eye injury affected her performance in her
Ultimate Fighting Championship title bout against Natalia
Silva.
Wang (10-2) fell short in her pursuit of the vacant women’s
flyweight title, losing a unanimous decision to Silva (21-5-1) in
the UFC
332 main event at Delta Center in Salt Lake City. After the
bout, Wang said on social media that an eye poke had hindered her
performance.
Cong Wang details eye injury after loss to Natalia Silva at UFC
332
Wang struggled to find her rhythm until late in the fight, saying
afterward that the poke had impaired her vision. She reflected on
the bout in an Instagram video, showing what she described as a
scratch on her right eye.
“Thank you for supporting my friends,” Wang said in the video. “The
game is lost; what a pity. I have some regrets then because of the
first round. The eye was poked in the second half. The line of
sight is blocked, and then I couldn’t see it when I was poked in
the right eye in the first round. Wait until later to slow down;
it’s too slow to enter. Where to fall, get up, go back, and
summarize yourself. Come on, try again.”
The defeat snapped Wang’s four-fight winning streak, which included
victories over Tracy
Cortez and Eduarda
Moura.