Jessica Eye

Jessica Jo-Anne Eye (born July 27, 1986) is an American retired mixed martial artist.

She competed as a flyweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).

Jessica Eye was born in Akron, Ohio to Randy Allen and Colleen Joanne Eye.

Eye has two half-sisters, Jennifer Carlisle-Brunner and Heather Carlisle-Hunter, and a brother, Randy Miles Eye.

When Eye was 6, her parents divorced.

Her mother and sisters were forced to move to the Washington D.C. suburbs of Virginia.

Eye attended elementary school in Virginia but returned to Ohio, growing up in Cuyahoga Falls and graduated from high school in Rootstown, Ohio.

When she was 16 years old, a drunk driver hit Eye and her father.

She suffered a broken back, among other injuries, and was bedridden for three months.

She credits this incident with creating her drive towards success in mixed martial arts.

She graduated in 2005 from Rootstown High School and Maplewood Career Center.

She then attended the University of Akron, but never finished her four-year degree.

Eye made her amateur mixed martial arts debut in June 2008.

She was undefeated as an amateur, winning 5 matches and becoming the first North American Allied Fight Series (NAAFS) amateur women's champion on December 5, 2009.

In June 2010, Eye made her professional MMA debut with North American Allied Fight Series in Ohio, defeating Amanda LaVoy by TKO (elbows).

She defeated Marissa Caldwell in her second pro bout.

Eye became the Ring of Combat (ROC) 130 lbs women's champion on February 4, 2011, defeating Ashley Nee by TKO (punches).

She suffered her first loss on June 4, 2011, in an NAAFS professional women's flyweight championship bout against Aisling Daly.

She made her debut in September 2011, defeating Casey Noland by split decision at Bellator 51.

Eye returned to NAAFS to face Angela Magaña in the main event at NAAFS: Rock N Rumble 6 on August 17, 2012.

She defeated Magaña by unanimous decision.

Following her first professional loss, Eye signed with Bellator Fighting Championships.

After winning two fights for NAAFS, Eye next competed at Bellator 66 on April 20, 2012.

She was originally scheduled to face Aisling Daly in a rematch, but Daly withdrew from the fight due to an ear infection.

Eye faced Anita Rodriguez instead and defeated Rodriguez by unanimous decision.

In her third fight with Bellator, Eye defeated then-champion Zoila Frausto Gurgel at Bellator 83 on December 7, 2012, winning with a standing arm-triangle choke in less than one minute.

The bout was a non-title bout.

Eye was set to face Munah Holland at Bellator 95 on April 4, 2013.

However, Eye suffered a back injury during practice that left her temporarily unable to walk and she was forced to withdraw from a fight for the first time in her career.

On June 1, 2013, Eye defeated Carina Damm by unanimous decision at NAAFS: Fight Night in the Flats 9.

Along with Jessica Aguilar, Eye was released by Bellator on August 13, 2013, following the dissolution of its Women's division.

Aguilar and Eye were the last remaining female fighters on the Bellator roster.

In August 2013, Eye signed with the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), moving up to the bantamweight division since, at the time, the UFC did not have a women's flyweight division.

The anticipation surrounding her debut was covered by USA Today and FoxSports.com.

In her first fight with the promotion, Eye faced Sarah Kaufman at UFC 166 on October 19, 2013.

She won the fight via split decision.

However, in February 2014, the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation changed the result to "no decision" with no reason initially given for the change.

It was later revealed that Eye had failed her post-fight drug test after testing positive for marijuana and was subsequently fined $1,875 and put on probationary suspension for a year.

Eye faced Alexis Davis on February 22, 2014, at UFC 170.

On June 4, 2019, Eye wrote in an article for The Players' Tribune detailing abuse she suffered as a teenager from her father, including an incident when Eye was 14, that led to her father being arrested and charged with child endangerment and domestic abuse.