George Sotiropoulous: “I didn’t know I had 5 minutes to recover”

On a video interview with TUF 6 semi-finalist George Sotiropoulous on UFC.com, the Australian states that he was unaware that he had 5 minutes to recover from the accidental poke in the eye he suffered from Tommy Speer.

Favoured to make it to the final and fight Mac Danzig, Sotiropoulous was instead knocked down and then pounded out in the first round of his semi final matchup. In the video interview conducted by UFC.com post fight the Team Serra fighter states how after he sufferred the poke in the eye he was seeing double vision.

He goes on to state how he tried to stop the double vision by closing his injured left eye, but at the same time he was met with a thunderous right hand from his opponent which dropped him to the mat, where he was eventually finished.

George Sotiropoulous is now scheduled to fight on the main card of the TUF 6 finale against Billy Miles who was submitted by John Kolosci in the first round of the Ultimate Fighter competition.

TUF 6 Finale Finalised

The Ultimate Fighter 6 Finale’s card has now been finalised reports MMAjunkie.com. The news comes after today’s final episode in which both Mac Danzig and Tommy Speer won their semi final match-ups and will now duke it out for the multi-fight contract with the UFC and the tag of the “Ultimate Fighter”.

The fight that will decide this season of the Ultimate Fighter is a bit surprising. Not Mac Danzig’s part because that was to be expected but the man Danzig was expected to face, Australian George Sotiropoulous was upset by the Team Hughes fighter, Tommy Speer.

A remarkable comeback by Team Hughes who had only 2 fighters out of the 8 in the quarterfinals, now make up the final. Not without a bit of controversy though, as during the fight with Sotiropoulous, Speer apparently landed an eye gouge that caused significant problems to the Australian. Speer capitalised on the distorted vision to land a thundering punch that helped to knock his opponent out of and move himself one step further in the competition.

The TUF 6 Finale looks like this:

MAIN CARD:
Roger Huerta vs. Clay Guida
Mac Danzig vs. Tommy Speer (TUF 6 Final Bout)
Jared Rollins vs. Jon Koppenhaver
George Sotiropoulous vs. Billy Miles

UNDERCARD:
Ben Saunders vs. Dan Barrera
Matt Arroyo vs. Jon Kolosci
Troy Mandaloniz vs. Richie Hightower
Roman Mitichyan vs. Dorian Price
Paul Georgieff vs. Jonathan Goulet