(Video courtesy PureFight)
When it was announced that Alan Belcher was forced to pull out of his headlining September 15 UFC Fight Night bout with Demian Maia due to a detached retina he suffered in training, the news was met with a collective, "That sucks. Hopefully when he heals up, the UFC will match them up again."
According to Belcher, he may never get the opportunity to fight Maia again, or anyone else for that matter.
In an interview he did with PureFight this week, the 26-year-old Biloxi, Mississippi fighter who revealed that he suffered irreparable vision loss as a result of the freak injury said that there is a chance he may never fight again.
Belcher says that he won’t know the extent of the injury or the success of the surgery for at least a couple of months and only then will he be able to assess whether or not continuing to fight will be an option for him or if he will have to walk away from the sport he loves.
Check out the close-up of Alan’s eye, post-surgery number one:
Here is the transcription of the pertinent parts of the interview:
"I have a detached retina. It just all happened all of a sudden, I just lost my vision in my right eye. It just happened all of a sudden, man — pretty much overnight. I was in Brazil training and I messed around for a few days there afterwards and I had to come home and have a surgery the day after I came home."
"I think it happened in training but I don’t really know exactly when. It might have been from the pressure of the airplane might have finished it off from that long trip down there, but before that I probably had some tears in my retina and it was just from getting hit in the head probably."
"A few weeks before I noticed like some flashing, kind of seeing stars when I closed my eyes and I didn’t really know what that was, so I should have got it checked out then but I didn’t really think about it until I stated losing my vision, thinking maybe that’s what it was. So I looked up some of the symptoms and things like that. Oh well, you know. I might could have done something about it, but I didn’t know."
"I just gotta wait. It’s gonna take a couple months to heal and be at its peak, so then I’ll know how good my vision comes back. I lost a lot of my peripheral vision and I got that back right away after the surgery. I got peripheral, but everything’s blurry and distorted pretty much exactly the same as it was before the surgery, but the only thing I got my peripheral vision back and I guess my sight should be getting better. [The surgeon] says definitely [my vision's] not going to get back to the same, but at best it’s going to be something like 20/40… 20/60 vision. We could maybe do some more surgeries — laser on the retina to kinda flatten it out and get rid of the distortedness, maybe some on my lens to kinda do Lasik’s to…’cos I’m going to be really near-sighted. I can’t see anything far away and when it gets close I can almost see it."
"There’s going to be more surgeries probably even at the best case scenario. Worst case is, I don’t get any better than this and then I’m only working with one eye, I probably don’t want to risk fighting again with only one eye because if I lose that one I’m going to be blind."
"I’m not even really thinking about fighting right now. I’m just going to wait a couple months and see where I’m at. It’s disappointing ‘cos I was on a roll and getting really close to a title. I had a fight coming up that I was sure I was gonna win and it was gonna be a really big fight — main event and everything, but there’s nothin’ I can do about it. I’ll just deal with it and I’ll be back in there if my health allows me. [Fighting's] what I love to do and I can’t imagine not being able to do it any more, but I’ll deal with it if it happens."
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Comments
Tue, 08/10/10 - 09:00
Man that sucks for Alan. I had a retina partial-detachment and that took a long time to heal and my vision has never been the same. Best of luck, Alan... eye injuries are nothing to take lightly.
Tue, 08/10/10 - 09:06
When his vision does come back, his first words are going to be "What the fuck is this shit on my arm?!?!"
Tue, 08/10/10 - 09:11
Babies everywhere rejoice.
Tue, 08/10/10 - 09:20
LOL...freaking burrito beat me to it. I still don't know who it's supposed to be. Is it Cash....or is it Elvis...???? Nobody knows!
Tue, 08/10/10 - 09:26
I seriously hope the brazillian doctor who told him to get back to america to have it looked at told him to fucking DRIVE or take a boat back and not fly back. If he did he's just as responsible as Belcher for not having that shit looked at earlier. Do detached retinas happen this much in boxing or does it have somthing to do with the smaller gloves and/or eye poking?
Tue, 08/10/10 - 09:31
NinJay...wrong on both accounts:hxxp://www.glennshadix.com/biography/glenn-noni.gif
Tue, 08/10/10 - 09:37
@Mike Russell I thought the same thing. Of all the cool characters in Demolition Man to get a tattoo of, Belcher picks the fruity assistant to the mayor. Hillbilly.
Tue, 08/10/10 - 09:43
@Burrito Fuck that, that's Otho!
Tue, 08/10/10 - 09:56
That has to be the worst interview, and some of the dumbest questions asked I've ever heard in my life. "So uh..........................what's next"
Tue, 08/10/10 - 10:42
I don't care. Hit him with your eye.
Tue, 08/10/10 - 12:02
What did Belcher mean when he said Anderson has bad hips? I don't do jiu jitsu I don't know what that means to have bad hips
Tue, 08/10/10 - 12:16
And as foretold by the prophecy, Clay Guida became the last remaining belcher in the UFC. There can be only one!
Tue, 08/10/10 - 12:50
all the best mr belcher. i hope to see you kicking ass again. i hope the eye surgery/procedure goes well.
Tue, 08/10/10 - 12:58
@easy21 It means he could only have one, maybe two children in his lifetime.
Tue, 08/10/10 - 01:10
Man, Belcher has been on a tear lately too... Bummer bro
Tue, 08/10/10 - 01:10
Hope Alan gets well soon...whatever the fuck is on his arm (the Folsom Prison album cover portrait?), it looks pretty cool when the art is kissing a RNC victim.
Tue, 08/10/10 - 01:28
And I looked at the top of my screen. And I beheld a Lasik vision correction advertisement. No really I did. Too soon? Not on CP.
Tue, 08/10/10 - 03:17
Farq Allen, my heart goes out to ya bro .Looks like time to hang em up . Thanks for the memories . Your fight with sexyama was a beauty even if you got robbed . Down here we wear a stockings on our heads when we commit robbery , can you imagine judges ring side with a stocking on? Reckon should have been a pre req lately.Talkin to you Cecil! Banga
Tue, 08/10/10 - 04:18
Bad hips from a jj view are when you allow an opponent to pin your back on the ground, rendering you immobile. To shrimp out on to one hip gives you a better angle to attack, sweep, stand, etc. Since your hips are the center of your gravity/power having good hips is crucial. He has conservative hips.
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