ONE Championship: Ok Rae-yoon was ‘seeing two Christian Lees’ after breaking orbital in lightweight title win
- South Korean reveals he had double vision in Singapore following first-round injury
- Ok wants to face former champion Shinya Aoki to ‘become a true legend killer’
Ok Rae-yoon shocked the MMA world when he beat Christian Lee by unanimous decision last month to claim the ONE Championship lightweight title.
“Christian Lee was on my back and hit me with a light knee,” Ok (16-3) told the Post. “I wasn’t damaged at all or hurt. But as soon as I got hit with that I saw everything foggy. Nothing was clear. I saw two Christian Lees in there.
“I was kinda wondering what this is because in my whole experience as a professional MMA fighter I never hurt my eye. And I never [had] my orbital bone broken, even during training.
“I was just focusing on trying to see Christian Lee more clear, that’s why I was touching my eye. But until the end my left eye wasn’t clear. I kept seeing double vision. That’s why I had trouble getting my distance and the biggest trouble was checking Christian Lee’s right hand. I couldn’t see that clearly. That’s why the fight was a bit trickier than I thought, it was all because of the vision.”
After a few consultations with doctors in Singapore and South Korea, “Legend Killer” was told he had also broken the tip of his nose.