This past Saturday in the co-main event of UFC Vegas 110, we saw a pivotal matchup in the heavyweight division. Top ten contenders battled it out as Waldo Cortes-Acosta (15-2) took on former PFL heavyweight champ Ante Delija (26-7).
This fight was very interesting in the way that it played out. In the first round, Delija was stalking Cortes-Acosta against the cage and then unleashed a combination. Cortes-Acosta covered up and crumbled and ultimately, the fight was stopped giving Delija the TKO win.
However, then it started to become clear as to what happened. What started the sequence was an eye poke from Delija and you could tell that Cortes-Acosta was mainly hurt due to the poke more than anything that Delija threw at him that was legitimate.
The referee ultimately said that if Cortes

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