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Roy Nelson receives sanguinary souvenir from Werdum fight

Roy Nelson receives sanguinary souvenir from Werdum fight
February 7th 2012

We’ve got pretty strong stomachs here at Fighters Only - you have to, to eat in our canteen - but this made even us recoil in horror momentarily.

Roy Nelson fought Fabricio Werdum on Saturday night at UFC 143.

Roy has a big right hand and likes a grapple. Werdum is one of the MMA world’s top jiu jitsu players and so some BJJ fun seemed likely.

Imagine everyone’s surprise - imagine Roy’s! - when this jiu jitsu master suddenly pulled out a vintage Chute Boxe-era arsenal of Muay Thai awesome that nobody saw coming.

Well, Roy did see it coming, but only in the form of a knee that he bent to take a closer look at and inadvertently blocked with his face.

This is the result.

You could park a bus in it. You could place it alongside the Grand Canyon and confuse tourists. You could conceivably picture it giving birth to some product of Nelson’s inner psyche, like that mutant in Total Recall.

(that’s enough - editor)

* 'sanguinary' means bloody. Drop that on someone at the water cooler today

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