The top of Jiri Prochazka’s left eye looked like someone had mistaken his head for a Thanksgiving turkey and had taken a carving knife to dig out a chunk of juicy white meat.
Glover Teixeira’s face looked every one of his 42 years, the grey specks in his whiskers highlighted nicely by the rivulets of blood that trickled down his face.
But these two resilient and courageous men, battered and beaten so badly it would have been hard by the middle of the third round for their families to ID them in a lineup, continued to go savagely at each other until the most unlikely turn of events in the waning seconds of an epic battle in the main event of UFC 275 at Singapore Indoor Stadium in Singapore.