What, if anything, is to be done about the scourge of eye pokes in MMA? Is Ilia Topuria on the verge of the greatest three-fight run in MMA history, and is the UFC going to stand in the way?

Manel Kape's third-round TKO win over Asu Almabayev was tainted by multiple eye pokes that went unpunished by the referee. This drew the attention of former UFC middleweight-turned-PFL fighter ...