Most gruesome sports injuries?

12th round, maybe? Paret was knocked unconscious, but was still standing in the corner. Griffith landed 13 unanswered blows before the ref stepped in. Paret died nine or 10 days later, after never regaining consciousness.

 

I wasn't totally sure of the details (the round, the number of blows). Paret was still standing with the ropes holding him up until the ref got Griffith off of him, then just collapsed, and hit his head on the bottom turnbuckle. Very haunting to watch.

 

Ruby Goldstein, one of the top refs of that era, worked that fight. I have a book that the NY Times put out some years back with reprints of articles on boxing going all the way back to James Corbett's win over John L. Sullivan.

A story done the day after the Griffith-Paret fight mentions that there was loads of second guessing (not surprising) of Goldstein's decision to not stop the fight sooner. Paret had been in trouble in the sixth but knocked Griffth down and he was in a bad way in the 10th but came back to win the next round.

 

Thing is, it's still just blood... it's not like you ever see the actual wound.... A lot of it is implied. Though I'm still trying to figure out how Malarchuk lived.

 

Haven't read the entire thread, but without Malarchuk the poll is invalid.

 

Malarchuk was awful.
Kevin Stevens' broken face in 1993 was brutal.

 

Have to agree with JR: Malarchuk tops any leg/knee/face injury. That was Faces of Death stuff, except without the death.

 

On May 14, 1993, the Penguins were playing the New York Islanders in game seven of the Patrick Division Finals when Kevin Stevens suffered a terrible injury. Early in the first period, Stevens skated in and attempted to hit Islanders defenseman Rich Pilon, but instead was met by Pilon's visor which promptly knocked Stevens unconscious. He fell and hit the ice face first, and was unable to use his hands or arms to cushion the blow. Stevens then needed extensive reconstructive surgery on his face. Doctors cut an incision below his hairline from ear-to-ear, which was later closed with over 100 stitches, peeled back his skin and reassembled the bones in Stevens face with the use of metal plates.

I can't find the video, and I think I'm glad.

 

Winner winner chicken dinner.

 

You might want to link that. It may make some squeemish.

 

That was scary as hell because the way he hit the ice face first and didn't move I thought he was dead.