{"id":38223,"date":"2026-05-12T13:45:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Yaroslav-Amosov-reveals-he-had-massive-black-eye-prior-to-UFC-328-201156"},"modified":"2026-05-12T13:45:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:45:17","slug":"yaroslav-amosov-reveals-he-had-massive-black-eye-prior-to-ufc-328","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/yaroslav-amosov-reveals-he-had-massive-black-eye-prior-to-ufc-328\/","title":{"rendered":"Yaroslav Amosov reveals he had massive black eye prior to UFC 328"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/yaroslav-amosov-reveals-he-had-massive-black-eye-prior-to-ufc-328.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Yaroslav-Amosov-104911\">Yaroslav<br \/>\nAmosov<\/a>\u2019s <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/events\/UFC-328-May-9-111957\">UFC 328<\/a><br \/>\ncamp was going too perfectly, until it wasn\u2019t.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Amosov took on <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Joel-Alvarez-190201\">Joel<br \/>\nAlvarez<\/a> in a welterweight booking at UFC 328 last weekend in<br \/>\nNewark, New Jersey. Amosov barely broke a sweat while dominating<br \/>\nAlvarez on the ground before submitting him in the second round.<br \/>\nThe Ukrainian star also earned a $100,000 performance bonus for his<br \/>\nwin.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"adViAi\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> Amosov recently revealed that he had suffered a massive black eye<br \/>\nin sparring just a couple of weeks before UFC 328. While Amosov<br \/>\nusually suffers minor cuts and bruises during fight camp, this one<br \/>\nwas going so well that it almost had him worried. Amosov was<br \/>\nassured that everything was in place when he suffered a black eye<br \/>\njust two weeks before fight night.<\/p>\n<h2>No Such Thing as Perfect<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cIf this video gets posted, it will be after the fight,\u201d Amosov<br \/>\nsaid on social media. \u201cThere\u2019s no perfect camp, every time I\u2019m in<br \/>\ncamp, something happens to me always: a minor cut, a minor injury.<br \/>\nSomething that doesn\u2019t stop me but it just tells me I need to<br \/>\nadjust my schedule a bit and rest for a day or two. And a couple of<br \/>\ndays ago I thought damn, everything\u2019s great, not a single injury. I<br \/>\nwas even scared. I thought what&#8217;s going on? Weird, really<br \/>\nweird.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amosov (30-1) added after showing off his black eye, \u201cSo,<br \/>\neverything is in the right place. I am actually glad nothing has<br \/>\nchanged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amosov has finished both his <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/organizations\/Ultimate-Fighting-Championship-2\"><br \/>\nUFC<\/a> fights via submission so far. \u201cDynamo\u201d is eyeing a big name<br \/>\nand tougher matchup for his next outing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DYLrePyschF\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" readability=\"-0.26582278481013\"><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yaroslav Amosov\u2019s UFC 328 camp was going too perfectly, until it wasn\u2019t.&nbsp; Amosov took on Joel Alvarez in a welterweight booking at UFC 328 last weekend in Newark, New Jersey. Amosov barely broke a sweat while dominating Alvarez on the ground before submitting him in the second round. The Ukrainian star also earned a $100,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38224,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-martial-arts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}