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For the most part, professional boxers wear their scars and other visible evidence of their brutal trade as badges of honor, much like soldiers proudly display their medals and campaign ribbons on their uniforms. The ultimate fighter’s face belonged to the late, great Carmen Basilio, whose misshapen nose and scar-tissued countenance announced him as a fighter more than if he had always gone around in public wearing padded gloves and a satin robe with his name stitched onto the back.