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There is one thing that everyone who has ever watched MMA can agree on—it is a brutal sport that takes a heavy physical toll on the people involved. Unless you’re a member of a fight team, either as a competitor or part of the support personnel, you only tend to see the immediate post-fight damage. The ubiquity of social media over the past decade has allowed fans to see this physical impact to a greater extent than previous generations.