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Darren Till has revealed the full extent of a horrendous eye poke that 'felt like a finger went to the back of his brain'.
The Liverpool fighter has had rotten luck with injuries and was forced to pull out of his scheduled clash with Jack Hermansson earlier this year.
So when he suffered a gruesome eye poke during sparring he feared he may have to do the same again again of his UFC 282 showdown with Dricus du Plessis.
Darren Till suffered a horrendous eye poke in training in the run-up to UFC 282
The Liverpool fighter feared he would have to pull out but is ready to compete
'I was wrestling on the mat, and I shot for a takedown — I don't know why I'm doing that — it was like the worst thing to ever happen to me,' Till said.
'The guy's middle finger, I felt it go to the back of my brain. I actually tried to carry on wrestling. Anatoly [Malykhin] — he just won in ONE Championship there — he was like, 'Sit down. Sit your ass down.'
'It actually got worse as the days went on, and then I was actually worried, "I can't pull out of another fight." But then it got
