Former WBA welterweight champion Dennis Ugas revealed to fans that after being brutally attacked by TKO in the battle with Spencer this month, his eyes shed "40 hours" of blood and his injuries were very serious.
On April 16, the two men engaged in a face-to-face battle in Texas, fighting a sub-middleweight united war. The 35-year-old Ugas hopes to add the IBF and WBC world championship titles to the WBA gold belt retained after defeating the opponent, thus becoming the undisputed first of the sub-middleweight kings.
But in the face of Spencer, who has won 28 games and KO 22 times, he is a bit more than enough and insufficient, Ugas, as an Olympic athlete, is a typical technical athlete, with a KO rate of only 40%, obviously unable to really fight against the undefeated boxer Spencer like King Kong. Facing the fierce Spencer in the offensive professional boxing match, Ugas had to fight against his opponent due to rules, but in the end he was not an opponent.
Less than a minute into the end of the eighth round, referee Lawrence Cole suspended the game to herd Ugas into a corner, leaving the medical superintendent on the sidelines to check his vision. The doctor felt it was okay to continue the game, and Spencer continued to deal a merciless blow to his injured eye.
By the tenth round, Ugas's right eye could no longer see the opponent, but he still wanted to persevere and was unwilling to give up this hard-won opportunity, and finally the referee called off the game again to let the on-site medical supervisor diagnose Ugas's injured eye, and the doctor decided that Ugas could not continue the game and was tragically killed by TKO.
After the game, Ugas was taken to John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas, for immediate treatment. A week later, he began tweeting about the extent of the pain of his injury, posting a photo and the message below. "Thank you to everyone who sent a prayer. My eyes had been just like that, bleeding for nearly 40 hours, looking like tears of blood, but now it was open. In the next few days, in God's favor, when the swelling and bruising are zero, we will return to the doctor to proceed to the next step accurately. ”
Ugas also told boxing fans that he would never give up on himself, but after accepting the advice of a medical expert, the decision of the medical supervisor made him stop: "I think I have been fighting a fierce battle until the seventh, I hit three rounds with my swollen eyes, I am a warrior, no matter how much pain, no matter how hard Spencer fights, I will not give up." 」 Thank you. ”
The defeat put Ugas' professional boxing record at 32 wins and 5 losses, while Spencer Jr., 32, will now play a long-awaited super boxing match with WBO sub-welterweight champion Terrence Crawford, who told ESPN after the win: "Everyone knows who I want next; the next one I want Terence Crawford, that's the game I want; it's the fight everyone wants." Crawford, I'm here to get that damn gold belt. "