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Josh Koscheck returns to the Octagon on Sept. 24 for the first time since losing for the second time to Georges St-Pierre in their title fight at UFC 124. He takes on Matt Hughes after recovering from several broken bones in his face against St-Pierre, and ahead of his fight at UFC 135 he discussed the painful injury from UFC 124 in a blog at Sportsnet.ca:
It was a rough night for me. Pretty much the first punch Georges landed, a hard jab, broke my orbital socket (the round bone in your skull that your eyes sit in) but also my orbital plate (the cheekbone).
I had no depth perception and was basically a one-eyed fighter for the next 23 minutes. I can man up but the pain was just horrible. It hurt worse than anything I've ever experienced. It hurt even more than when I cut my big toe off when I was six -- when I was playing with my grandfather's axe being a little shit.
Seriously -- the eye hurt way worse than chopping my big toe off.
I had major surgery after the fight. The doctors told me that I took the punch right in the eyeball, and what happens when the eye takes a direct impact is the bone explodes and drops down in order to stop the pressure to the eye resulting in an exploding eyeball.
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