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Japanese Fighter Yusuke Yachi Suffers Brutal Eye Injury on the Mayweather-Tenshin Undercard

This weekend saw plenty of terrible eye injures. 

Cat Zingano’s nasty injury sustained at UFC 232 in Los Angeles at the weekend was pretty nasty. 

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Now the world of MMA continues to the feel the pain at a second gruesome eye injury, this time on the Mayweather-Tenshin undercard in Japan.  

During Rizin 14, the Japanese MMA promotion’s New Year’s Eve’s spectacular, Japanese lightweight veteran Yusuke Yachi faced off against former UFC fighter Johnny Case on the preliminary card in Saitama, Japan.

A punch from Case left Yachi with a cut on his right eye which quickly swelled up, causing his eye to completely shut. 

Check it out below: 

He was unable to continue and the fight stopped in the late second round.

That looks pretty painful. 

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