Chan Sung Jung to Undergo Eye Surgery, Targets Summer Octagon Return
Featherweight contender Chan Sung Jung will undergo eye surgery in hopes of a summer UFC return.
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“Objects would overlap vertically, and it was really difficult to spar at first,” Jung told Sherdog.com earlier this month. “But I realized that my brain was slowly adjusting to how my eyes were perceiving things. It’s very rare for an athlete to go into a fight without any injuries or problems after camp. For this particular camp, the problem just happened to be my eyes. I was connected to a doctor approved by the UFC, because I had to know whether this was going to affect me in the long run. I was told it wasn’t going to get worse from being hit, so I continued adapting to seeing with the double vision for the sake of taking the opportunity that lay before me.”
Despite those issue, Jung defeated Edgar via first-round technical knockout in South Korea for his second consecutive UFC triumph. Jung elected to have surgery after getting a second opinion on his eye from a doctor in Phoenix.
“Recently, it has been more important for me to figure out my double vision issue,” Jung told MMAJunkie. “It took a long time to get medical exams done and there was a difference with diagnoses between doctors in Korea and Phoenix.”
Jung ranks as one of the top contenders in the division, and ideally, he would like to have a title shot when he is ready to return to action in July or August.
“Right now, my focus goes on [Alexander] Volkanovski,” Jung said. “If it would not work for me to fight the champion, I would be interested in fighting [Brian] Ortega – but I want to make sure. At this moment, I want to fight Volkanovski.”
