*This content was translated by AI.
Justin Gaic (37, USA), who is set to play a tentative lightweight title match with Paddy Pimblett at UFC 324, made a shocking confession. Gaichi, who boasts a fiercer batting than anyone else on the octagon, revealed that he spent nearly half of his career in serious vision problems.
British media 'BBC' was born on the 23rd (Korea Standard Time) with one eye being nearsighted and the other having primordiality. As a result, I had serious problems with my sense of distance during the first half of my career," he reported.
According to reports, Gaichi could not afford to have vision correction surgery until he played 16 games after his professional debut. "I was driving after the surgery, and I saw a rat crossing the street, and I saw a flying beetle flying over the sidewalk block," Gaich said in an interview. "I realized how much I've missed and lived in the meantime. I didn't even know what I was missing until I saw it in person," he recalled.
What is interesting is that these vision problems have rather completed the gay fighting style. "Wrestling has no worries about distance control because you have to touch your opponent directly," said Gaitsch, a wrestling base. The reason I'm strong at infighting is because I had to first touch my body and check my position in order to hit the opponent," he explained.
Geich then said, "The sense of distance was the problem. When I closed one eye, the opponent seemed to be 1.5 meters apart, and when I closed the other eye, it seemed to be right in front of me, he said. "I just extended my fist toward the shape I saw in the middle. That was the biggest challenge I had to overcome," he added.
It wasn't just vision. Geichi fought with his sense of smell and taste lost. Gaich underwent nose surgery in 2022, after the title match loss to Charles Oliveira. It was an operation to correct the septum that he had been left unattended for 13 years after being injured as a wrestler.
"It was fantastic to be able to taste the food again," Geitch said. "Those days were really different. I couldn't see, taste, or smell. But I'm grateful that the whole experience made me," he said.
Meanwhile, Gaich, who showed off his robustness by winning a decision against Rafael Fijiev in March, will clash with Britain's Holy Paddy Pimblett for the lightweight provisional championship belt at UFC 324 main event at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on the 25th.
<© STARNEWS. All rights reserved. No reproduction or redistribution allowed.>
*This content was translated by AI.
