10 Most Horrifying MMA Injuries Of All Time

4. Marvin Eastman's Horror Movie Cut

There are dozens of MMA cuts we could realistically call the worst of all time.

Ghastly gashes are far from uncommon, with fighters sliced open by everything from untrimmed toenails to sharp elbow strikes. Cage Warriors fighter Jack Mason suffered one so huge it resembled a gory window to his cranial matter in April, and barely a month passes without the MMA community collectively losing their s*** at the latest major laceration, but few will live as long in the memory as Marvin Eastman's at UFC 43.

'The Beastman' fought Brazilian berserker Vitor Belfort that night. It didn't go well for him. Eastman lasted just one minute and seven seconds, falling to a trademark Belfort blitz for the TKO loss. Caused by the stiff knee to the forehead that dropped him, the cut was apparent as soon as Vitor pulled away from his felled opponent, and Joe Rogan immediately christened it a "goat's vagina," because of course he did.

It remains one of the biggest cuts in mixed martial arts history, but it didn't hold Eastman's career up - he returned six months later, and kept fighting until September 2013.

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