Gross Photo of the Day: Here’s the Gnarly Gash That Uriah Hall Gave Ron Stallings

Speaking of utter mismatches at UFC Fight Night 59, middleweight Uriah Hall needed less than a round to tear open the face of obscure late-replacement Ron Stallings to the point where the fight was stopped by a doctor. Here’s a nice, disgusting close-up of the damage, via SuckerPunch Entertainment.

Video highlights of the Hall vs. Stallings fight and Hall’s well-intentioned but kind of odd post-fight speech (“there’s no need for us to be fighting each other”) are after the jump…

Speaking of utter mismatches at UFC Fight Night 59, middleweight Uriah Hall needed less than a round to tear open the face of obscure late-replacement Ron Stallings to the point where the fight was stopped by a doctor. Here’s a nice, disgusting close-up of the damage, via SuckerPunch Entertainment.

Video highlights of the Hall vs. Stallings fight and Hall’s well-intentioned but kind of odd post-fight speech (“there’s no need for us to be fighting each other”) are after the jump…

UFC 182 Photo: Jon Jones Reminds Daniel Cormier of His Place in Life


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2015’s first “Photo of the Year” nomination goes to MMAFighting‘s Esther Lin, who captured the demoralizing moment at UFC 182 when Jon Jones palmed Daniel Cormier‘s head at the end of round 4, after taking the former Olympic wrestler down repeatedly. Cormier can barely summon the will to get angry; his spirit had already been broken.

In terms of Jones trolling his opponents following dominant rounds, this ranks right up there with the time that Jones went through Rampage’s legs just to be a jackass. Classic heel stuff. You can see the rest of Esther Lin’s UFC 182 photos right here.


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2015′s first “Photo of the Year” nomination goes to MMAFighting‘s Esther Lin, who captured the demoralizing moment at UFC 182 when Jon Jones palmed Daniel Cormier‘s head at the end of round 4, after taking the former Olympic wrestler down repeatedly. Cormier can barely summon the will to get angry; his spirit had already been broken.

In terms of Jones trolling his opponents following dominant rounds, this ranks right up there with the time that Jones went through Rampage’s legs just to be a jackass. Classic heel stuff. You can see the rest of Esther Lin’s UFC 182 photos right here.

The 58 Most Incredible MMA Photos We Posted on Facebook in 2014


(January 6th: Andy “Ice Cold” Eichholz might have broken his nose this weekend.)

At the time of this writing, CagePotato’s Facebook page is within spitting distance of 50,000 fans, so we figured we’d drop you a friendly reminder — PLEASE “Like” OUR PAGE, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!!! Honestly, it’ll be worth your time. We don’t just use our FB account to spam links to our articles; we also share some amazing photos and videos that you might not find elsewhere in your MMA media diet.

To give you a sense of what the non-followers might be missing, we went through our Facebook photo gallery today and selected 58 of the most memorable images that we posted in 2014, which we’ve laid out below along with their original descriptions. (Yeah, we did this last year too.)

Enjoy the pics, join CP’s Facebook Militia if you haven’t already, and invite your friends to follow us too! Or at least the ones who watch MMA and have a sense of humor.


January 21st: You know that photo of Fedor at the beach that’s been floating around? Well, we improved it. (Props: @ChrisColemon) #GloriousThongOfAbsoluteVictory


(January 6th: Andy “Ice Cold” Eichholz might have broken his nose this weekend.)

At the time of this writing, CagePotato’s Facebook page is within spitting distance of 50,000 fans, so we figured we’d drop you a friendly reminder — PLEASE “Like” OUR PAGE, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!!! Honestly, it’ll be worth your time. We don’t just use our FB account to spam links to our articles; we also share some amazing photos and videos that you might not find elsewhere in your MMA media diet.

To give you a sense of what the non-followers might be missing, we went through our Facebook photo gallery today and selected 58 of the most memorable images that we posted in 2014, which we’ve laid out below along with their original descriptions. (Yeah, we did this last year too.)

Enjoy the pics, join CP’s Facebook Militia if you haven’t already, and invite your friends to follow us too! Or at least the ones who watch MMA and have a sense of humor.


January 21st: You know that photo of Fedor at the beach that’s been floating around? Well, we improved it. (Props: @ChrisColemon) #GloriousThongOfAbsoluteVictory


January 27th: Early kick-face of the year candidate, from the Cowboy/Martins fight. It’s hideous…and yet I can’t look away. http://bit.ly/M5oKUv #UFConFOX


February 4th: Jon Jones and John McCain joined forces today for a great cause: http://bit.ly/LMRqSn


February 6th: Ronda Rousey. Holy moly. (Photo by @brianbowensmith)


February 20th: Throwback Thursday: UFC 3′s Emmanuel Yarborough and a pre-Bangerz Miley Cyrus. #wtf #tbt


February 25th: Vitor Belfort’s new haircut. Your thoughts, please. (props: realvitorbelfort on Instagram)


March 10th: “The Korean Zombie” Chan Sung Jung got married this weekend. Obviously, he had to represent in his wedding photos. (props: r/MMA)


March 17th: Carlos Condit Suffered Meniscus Tear, Possible Torn ACL in UFC 171 Loss to Tyron Woodley http://bit.ly/1cQiY5z


March 23rd: Whoa…best tattoo ever? (via Inked Magazine)

Summer of Love: The 15 Greatest Photos From Miesha Tate’s UFC Press Tour


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Between her appearance in this year’s ESPN Body Issue and her role in the UFC’s recent “World Tour” publicity extravaganza, Miesha Tate has spent a good chunk of this summer on the road, hustling. Much of that time has been spent in close proximity with her arch-enemy, UFC bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey. It’s a tense balance that Tate has needed to strike on a near-daily basis — keeping up the appearance of marketable hostility, while not crossing the line into outright strangling the broad who flipped her the bird.

I was browsing through the latest UFC photos in our Getty Images account the other day, and I came across this rather amazing photo of Tate and Rousey on set at SportsCenter, doing their best not to make eye-contact, as Miesha does her best impression of McKayla Maroney. And so, we decided to gather a few more of the recent photo highlights from Tate’s summer tour. Some are candid and revealing. Some are just nice to look at. Enjoy.


(Q&A session before UFC on FOX 8 in Seattle, July 26th.)


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Between her appearance in this year’s ESPN Body Issue and her role in the UFC’s recent “World Tour” publicity extravaganza, Miesha Tate has spent a good chunk of this summer on the road, hustling. Much of that time has been spent in close proximity with her arch-enemy, UFC bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey. It’s a tense balance that Tate has needed to strike on a near-daily basis — keeping up the appearance of marketable hostility, while not crossing the line into outright strangling the broad who flipped her the bird.

I was browsing through the latest UFC photos in our Getty Images account the other day, and I came across this rather amazing photo of Tate and Rousey on set at SportsCenter, doing their best not to make eye-contact, as Miesha does her best impression of McKayla Maroney. And so, we decided to gather a few more of the recent photo highlights from Tate’s summer tour. Some are candid and revealing. Some are just nice to look at. Enjoy.


(Q&A session before UFC on FOX 8 in Seattle, July 26th.)


(Slappin’ five with her homeboy Joseph Benavidez.)


(Preparing for her SportsCenter appearance, as boyfriend Bryan Caraway provides moral support.)


(The enemy appears.)


(At the UFC World Tour stop in New York City, July 31st.)


(Props: @EricHolden)


(Props: facebook.com/mieshatatefanpage)


(Arriving at ESPN The Magazine’s 5th Annual “Body Issue” Party on July 16th.)


(Props: facebook.com/mieshatatefanpage)


(Miesha Tate tells us how she really feels about Ronda Rousey. Props: Visalia’s MMA Gear)

Gnarly Photos of the Day: Mark Hunt’s Broken Toe, Donald Cerrone’s Gashed-Up Elbow

UFC 160 may have been the bloodiest, ugliest UFC event since “Fight for the Troops” in 2008. MMAJunkie has a gallery of gory photo-highlights that you should check out if you have the stomach for that sort of thing, but we wanted to pass along a couple gruesome shots in particular.

Above, you’ll see the destroyed toe of Mark Hunt, who says he broke the piggy during the first round of his co-main event fight against Junior Dos Santos. As Hunt wrote on his Facebook fan page: “Thanks for the support apologies about the result junior was to slick for me. Got a broken toe first round and had no movement, but like i said before if i am going out i am out on my back thanks again 1luv.”

And “go out on his back” he certainly did.

After the jump: Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone shows off the literal aftermath of figuratively breaking his elbow off in KJ Noons‘s ass.

UFC 160 may have been the bloodiest, ugliest UFC event since “Fight for the Troops” in 2008. MMAJunkie has a gallery of gory photo-highlights that you should check out if you have the stomach for that sort of thing, but we wanted to pass along a couple gruesome shots in particular.

Above, you’ll see the destroyed toe of Mark Hunt, who says he broke the piggy during the first round of his co-main event fight against Junior Dos Santos. As Hunt wrote on his Facebook fan page: “Thanks for the support apologies about the result junior was to slick for me. Got a broken toe first round and had no movement, but like i said before if i am going out i am out on my back thanks again 1luv.”

And “go out on his back” he certainly did.

After the jump: Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone shows off the literal aftermath of figuratively breaking his elbow off in KJ Noons‘s ass.


(“Sometimes you get cool scars to show people!” – @CowboyCerrone)

Photo of the Day: Junior Dos Santos and Tim Boetsch Grin Through the Agony


(Props: CagedInsider on Facebook)

Junior Dos Santos‘s five-round thrashing at the hands of Cain Velasquez last night resulted in photographs both horrific and comically horrific. But as the above photo proves, Junior walked away from his beating with his faculties somewhat intact, and was healthy enough to fist-pose afterwards with middleweight Tim Boetsch, who gave Cigano a run for his money in the “most gruesomely misshapen fighter of the night” category. Throw a slashed-up Joe Lauzon in there, and you’d have the most depressing/inspiring MMA photo of the year. It hurts to look at these guys so soon after suffering through unimaginable physical agony, but it’s hard not to give it up for you-know-what.


(Props: CagedInsider on Facebook)

Junior Dos Santos‘s five-round thrashing at the hands of Cain Velasquez last night resulted in photographs both horrific and comically horrific. But as the above photo proves, Junior walked away from his beating with his faculties somewhat intact, and was healthy enough to fist-pose afterwards with middleweight Tim Boetsch, who gave Cigano a run for his money in the “most gruesomely misshapen fighter of the night” category. Throw a slashed-up Joe Lauzon in there, and you’d have the most depressing/inspiring MMA photo of the year. It hurts to look at these guys so soon after suffering through unimaginable physical agony, but it’s hard not to give it up for you-know-what.