Cody Stevens has been a professional MMA fighter for over tens years, but that career has been cut tragically short after a fight this past August at Honor FC 6.
Stevens was in the cage against Aaron Mitchell and was the victim of an eye poke from his opponent, but this particular incident was much worse because Mitchell?s thumb would go past Stevens? eye and into the socket itself.
The incident would leave doctors to determine that Stevens may have to have his eye removed completely due to the damage suffered by the poke according to Bloody Elbow.
It would be through Instagram that Stevens would document the horros he has gone through since the incident happened:
A still recovering Stevens would also post a video on Facebook to update fans on his health, saying the following:
?If you haven?t been following, I ruptured my globe ? which is the entirety of the eyeball ? on August 19th, which was also my birthday. This injury required emergency surgical repair. From the get-go the outlook has not been promising. Initially they were going to remove the eye that night, as it had been ruptured so severely and lost a lot of it?s contents ? meaning fluid inside the eye. Miraculously the surgeons were able to suture it together, thankfully. Sutures that would hold it together, but we knew we would need a few more miracles for the eye to ever function again, even at a very low percentage. Because the globe is not healing, the eye is continuing to shrink and cause me pain. It is painful to open my left eye even. So we are now discussing removal options. Now that I have had time to process this, I know that there are other things I want to do that I cannot do if this eye is not removed.?
There has been no word since the following Instagram/Facebook posts from Stevens as to when the affected eye will get removed.