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Leslie Smith’s Gruesome Injury

Injuries are just a part of the job for UFC fighters, but sometimes there’s an injury so gruesome it leaves everyone in the audience cringing for days. That’s what happened with UFC’s number 3 ranked 125-pound fighter, Leslie Smith. Smith was fighting Jessica Eye when she took a right hand to the side of her head which caused her cauliflower ear to explode. Take a moment.

The fight was stopped shortly after with Smith’s ear basically torn in half, dangling from her head. Her ear was stitched up backstage, but she will have to wear headgear for the rest of her career, and she wasn’t able to fight for 50 days.