A broken nose is a commonnearly unavoidable occurence in combat sports. Howeversometimes a thing happens to such a degree it transcends the category.

Such was the case when Andy Eichholz fought Wade Sauer at Full Nelson Productions: Let ‘er Buck in PendletonOregon.

Sauer knocked out “Ice Cold” Eichholzvery breaking his nose in the process.

Image courtesy of Matt ‘The Law’ Llndland

The nose has inspired a flurry of comments across the Internetaggregated by The Huffington Posttrying to capture how very broken the nose is:

•”So extremely broken that he could double for a Picasso painting,” said NextImpulseSports.

•”All I can picture is Daffy Duck getting hit so hard his bill ends up on the back of his head,” said a Deadspin comment.

•Godit must be hard to pick that nose,” said some at B/R.

Eichholz now joins a gallant group of very broken noses.

Rich Franklin

Brandon Vera

Charley Lynch

Cung Le

Ryan McGillivray

Craig Ninow

Stilno matter what happens in the cageit cannot equal science…