Florence Otedola, the Nigerian disc jockey, who is better known as DJ Cuppy, has spoken up after her boxer fiancé, Ryan Taylor, quit a boxing match in the first round.
Ryan had gone head-to-head with Brandon Scott, better known as Swarmz, at the OVO Arena Wembley in London, but he bailed out barely 30 seconds into the fight.
The fight ended unexpectedly in the first round when Swarmz landed a punch on Ryan Taylor barely 30 seconds into the match. Read here.
In a post via his Instagram Stories, Ryan explained that the punch hit his eyeball, which made him immediately lose his sight.
“The glove caught my fucking eye ball. I can’t see shit. Mad …,” he wrote while adding a laughing emoji.
Well, Cuppy has now taken to Instagram to drum up support for her lover, while noting that his overall well-being is worth more to her than any boxing match.
“The LOML ...THANK GOD your eye is recovering. You scared me from ringside straight to A&E …Sorry fans, I pick his eyesight OVER any boxing match ANYDAY! #SorryNotSorry”, she captioned a loved-up photo of them together.
See how fans reacted to Cuppy’s post as you scroll.
@kizobillz, “Love is blind nor mean say e go come blind for real life bcos of match”.
@maicontush, “Leave this man make him face his career, he was supposed to train una they travel all around, now them done use punch cut him eye”.
@afrikanking001, “Na anyone you begin love, dem begin beat them. You love AJ. Since den he still dey collect beating. This one now dem beat am run from ring.”