Notebook: Spence has another eye surgery, this time for cataracts
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Former unified welterweight titlist Errol Spence Jr. announced on social media Monday that he has undergone surgery for cataracts in his right eye.
He posted a video of himself on Instagram being pushed in a wheelchair with his eye bandaged and wrote, “Had to get cataract surgery. It’s been past due. Shit was covering my eye. Why you think I got hit with so many jabs and hooks? Still a great performance by bro.”
Spence was referring to Terence Crawford, who dropped him three times in a ninth-round knockout on July 29 in their mega fight that headlined a Showtime PPV card at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas to unify their titles and crown the first undisputed welterweight champion of the four-belt era, and first in the division since Cory Spinks did it in the three-belt era against Ricardo Mayorga in 2003.
Cataracts leave a person with cloudy vision and surgery typically removes the eye lens and replaces it with an artificial one.
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