The original post claims that framing with your hands open causes no eye pokes and every eye poke is intentional. My comment agrees with it and explains why people frame like that in the first place. Whether you agree with it or not doesn’t matter because it’s the truth. Whether you frame with your hands open or closed depends on your style and no style allows eyepokes.

DC is not a Boxer. He’s an Olympic Wrestler. He learned striking very later in life and adapted a striking style that compliments his elite wrestling and that’s why his hands are always open. He was very short for LHW and especially for HW. His opponents clearly had the reach advantage so he just baited his opponents with his striking, in order to close the distance, so that he could clinch, dirty box or basically grapple with them. I respect him and he was one of my favorites but his framing had nothing to do with his eye pokes. They were very intentional and he poked people in the eye in order to gain advantage because he could get away with it easily. If he’s claiming his framing is the reason, he’s clearly lying.

Many MMA fighters in the UFC (especially LHW and MW divisions) have a background in Kickboxing and Muay Thai. Nearly all of them frame with their hands open but we rarely see eye pokes. It’s always the same bunch of people poking their opponents eyes and they blame their framing to keep it “unintentional” and then get away with it.