The last time I saw picture of someone with a broken skull, it involved rubber bullets and some Occupy Oakland protesters. The dude got carried away by protesters and eventually ended up in a hospital instead of being stood up to have a championship belt wrapped around his waist. Both broken craniums ended up with X-Rays like this one.

MMA is going through a rawesome stretch of manliness where fighters are sustaining all sorts of freak injuries en route to overcoming all odds to win their fights. We saw it with Siyar Bahadurzada in his fight against Paulo Thiago, Frankie Edgar in just about every fight he has ever been in, and now, we can add J.P. Joubert to a short list of the toughest fighters who ever lived. According to EFC Africa, he suffered a ‘Frontal sinus fracture and concussion’ in the first round of his fight. What that complex scientific terminology really means is that he broke his skull during his fight against Norman Wessels, then came back in round two and knocked his opponent out. Between this and the story of the fighter who got submitted but won his fight that we posted earlier today, you’re running out of excuses why you can’t do something amazing today despite your poor diet and broken DVR.

Comments   

 

+7 # Guest 2012-08-14 14:29

Sometimes these things happen in MMA.

Reply | Reply with quote | Quote

 

 

0 # io31 2012-08-15 03:41

This was probably the scariest injury that I've seen in an MMA fight, right there with heavy concussions. Way worse than any combination of ligament tears/bone breaks etc. The frontal lobes are responsible for some rather important shit and that could have gotten much much uglier. They shouldn't have let him continue.

Reply | Reply with quote | Quote

 

 

+6 # Sambro 2012-08-14 14:34

It's amazing that no one seems to notice that dent in his skull.

Reply | Reply with quote | Quote

 

 

+4 # Guest 2012-08-14 15:01

Must have thought the rest of his face was swollen

Reply | Reply with quote | Quote

 

 

+17 # Guest 2012-08-14 15:13

which pixel are you referring to

Reply | Reply with quote | Quote

 

 

0 # Guest 2012-08-14 19:06

One of the commentators mentioned it I think at the beginning of the 2nd round

Reply | Reply with quote | Quote

 

 

+12 # Guest 2012-08-14 15:04

Somewhere Tito Ortiz is saying, "I fucking told you!!!"

Reply | Reply with quote | Quote

 

 

+4 # Guest 2012-08-14 15:27

Props to both guys great fight well done

Reply | Reply with quote | Quote

 

 

+2 # Guest 2012-08-14 15:56

What an awesome fight!

Reply | Reply with quote | Quote

 

 

+2 # benny 2012-08-14 16:45

That was an amazing fight, wish it was higher quality haha.

Reply | Reply with quote | Quote

 

 

0 # Sambro 2012-08-14 18:41

this is much better:
http://www.mixedmartialarts.com/news/416622/South-African-fighter-suffers-broken-skull-wins-fight-by-TKO/

Reply | Reply with quote | Quote

 

 

+1 # Guest 2012-08-14 16:47

Somewhere....a cricket is masturbating playing sweet sweet music.

Reply | Reply with quote | Quote

 

 

+1 # Guest 2012-08-14 17:22

Both guys are made of iron, fuck!

Reply | Reply with quote | Quote

 

 

+3 # Badapple11 2012-08-14 17:48

Even with the 4 pixels, you can see the dent. Warrior.

Reply | Reply with quote | Quote

 

Refresh comments list
RSS feed for comments to this post

Add comment

Name (required)

Refresh

Send

Cancel

JComments