Song spotted his fight towards Sandhagen end by way of fourth-round TKO after the decrease worsened, and the cageside physician would no longer allow him to continue. The ‘Kung Fu Kid’ admitted he would possibly no longer see ‘anything after the cut,’ which was once as soon as resulted in by way of a well-timed step-in elbow from the ‘Sandman’ early in the second round. Shortly after the fight, he won stitches and gave the impression to heal correctly, then again the issues at the side of his eye are far from over.

The Team of workers Alpha Male product printed on Tuesday that he moreover suffered a fractured orbital and will undergo surgery to mend it next week.

“Since Round 2, I was seeing triple vision because of this orbital fracture, I was going via 3 Cory in front of me,” wrote Song alongside an X-ray of the wear and tear. “A titanium piece will put in for me next week, will come once more harder with the metal.”

There was once as soon as no recovery timeline provided, then again fractured orbitals can heal inside of a few weeks. Alternatively, Song might be sidelined for for for much longer taking into account his experience with triple vision. In keeping with HealthLine:

“In the event you occur to went into the surgery with double vision, it must closing as long as two to 4 months after surgery.”

Song was once as soon as up to now on a three-fight win streak that integrated (T)KOs of Julio Arce and Marlon Moraes in his most recent Octagon appearances. Prior to that, the 24-year-old suffered his most simple other loss inside the UFC, a unanimous option to Kyler Phillips at UFC 259 more than a year up to now.

As for Sandhagen, he returned to the win column after back-to-back losses to T.J. Dillashaw and Petr Yan at UFC Vegas 32 and UFC 267, respectively.