If you’re looking for a cool coffee table book to replace the Martha Stewart one your girlfriend arbitrarily decided to buy, you need to pick up Lee Whitehead’s "Blunt Force Trauma."
Chances are, if you’ve been a fan of mixed martial arts for more than a few weeks, you’ve seen some of Whitehead’s work. He’s a reporter with MMAWeekly and a longtime fixture in mixed martial arts photography. His work has appeared in countless MMA magazines including MMA Unlimited, Fighters Only, Martial Arts llustrated, Fighters, KamiPro in Japan and Ground and Pound Germany. He is also a feature MMA photographer for Spiked Extreme sports magazine.
Blunt Force Trauma is a collection of over 500 poignant photographs that illustrate the beauty and raw emotions of mixed martial arts through the triumphs, the trials and the tribulations of fighters from all walks of life and at different stages of their respective careers.
More excerpts from this must-have glossy hardcover after the jump.