DENVER – Former UFC women’s featherweight champion Germaine de Randamie couldn’t stop herself from crying backstage after her win at UFC Fight Night 139. De Randamie’s (9-3 MMA, 5-1 UFC) decision over onetime bantamweight title challenger Raquel Pennington (9-7 MMA, 6-4 UFC) wasn’t just a statement after being stripped of the 145-pound division’s belt for not fighting current champ Cris Cyborg . Just the fact that she was able to make it to the octagon was something of a miracle. A freak accident nearly left de Randamie blind when a ball hit her in the eye and damaged her retinal nerve. “It made me blind for a long time,” she told reporters at the Pepsi Center in Denver.
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Freak accident nearly blinded Germaine de Randamie before UFC Fight Night 139 – MMA Junkie