Graphic! White Shares Pics Of Paiva Getting Stitched Up

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This is your last chance to turn back lest you want to see what lays under a UFC fighter’s eyebrow skin flap.

By now we imagine you’ve seen the monumental ruin Vicente Luque made of Mike Perry’s nose at UFC Uruguay on Saturday, but “Platinum” wasn’t the only man who had his face rearranged and then repaired by doctors in Montevideo last night.

Raulian Paiva and Rogerio Bontorin traded dueling eye injuries during their fight, but it was the nasty gash above Paiva’s eye that forced the ringside physician to step in and stop things three minutes into their fight. And looking at the photos, we can’t really disagree with that decision. Another punch or two and there wouldn’t be much skin left holding Paiva’s eyebrow to his skull.

As if seeing the fight itself wasn’t gruesome enough for us UFC fans, Dana White went ahead and gave everyone a backstage look at how bad Paiva’s cut was following the fight and how slick of a job UFC doctors do in repairing that kind of damage.

First, the un-repaired damage in all its glory:

Now the stitch up job:

The loss drops Paiva to 0-2 in UFC (18-3 career), but given this defeat comes off a cut we imagine he may get another shot. Being an alum of Dana White’s Tuesday Night “Contender Series” probably doesn’t hurt. As for Rogerio Bontorin — another “Contender Series” graduate — he moves to 2-0 in UFC (16-1 career).