Mirko Cro Cop suffers serious eye injury

In recent days, while training for his heavyweight bout against Frank Mir at UFC 119, Mirko Cro Cop suffered a significant injury to his right eye. The picture below shows a gruesome image of what must a very painful eye.

MiddleEasy.com has an interview with UFC President Dana White discussing Cro Cop's situation. You'll see Dana mentions the doctors told him that the eye heals faster that any other part of the body. This is partially true. The cornea and the outer covering of the eye ball, the conjunctiva, heal very quickly (usually, a scratch or cut will heal within hours to a couple of days).

A corneal abrasion wouldn't lead to bleeding like you see in this image, so my guess would be a conjunctival laceration. Mirko was seen by multiple opthalmologists and cleared to fight at this weekend's event. For a guy like Cro Cop, its just a love tap :)