Luis Santos entered the ONE Championship cage on Friday to battle Ben Askren for the welterweight title, but the bout ended in a no-contest.
Santos impressed early in the fight, taking Askren down twice and almost getting the mount at one point, but ended up poked in the eye at 2:19 of the first round. The Brazilian was given five minutes to recover, but couldn’t continue.
"He scratched my cornea," Santos told MMAFighting.com. "I won’t be able to train for three weeks."
"The doctors were talking to ‘Sapo’ in the cage and Askren was all over it, trying to push him back to the fight," Damm told MMAFighting.