She was fighting with a cauliflower ear. Her opponent, Jessica Eye, landed a punch that popped her cauliflower ear. However, the sight of the appendage flopping around after popping was too nasty.
The doctor and ref ultimately agreed to stop the fight. Smith was angry about the decision and wanted to keep fighting. However, her ear popping like that cost her the fight.
Indeed, Healthline reports that someone can do several things to remedy their cauliflower ear. Preventing cauliflower ears is actually pretty easy, as it simply means avoiding getting hit in the ears or wearing a helmet when training and competing.
In any case, if you do get hit on the ear, other things can be done. What are you going to do? Eventually it calcified like this, and since it did that, it hasn't blown up and gotten sore ever again. Whether it's a needle or a painful self-massage, something must be done, both to alleviate the pressure and prevent the explosive solution to the problem Eye inadvertently offered Smith.
Resorting to the needle is most common—but it's a temporary solution that's not exactly conducive for the active life of most fighters. For most competitors, rest and relaxation simply isn't an option in the aftermath of treatment. After all, the cauliflower ear most likely occurred while training for an athletic competition.
Taking time off is unlikely, meaning it's a problem that goes from a short-term nuisance to a long-term reality rather quickly. But no one does nothing afterwards and lets it heal. You go train right away, and the next day it's going to be an issue all over again. But I don't have to drain them anymore. There's nowhere left for any cauliflower to grow. For Lindland, cauliflower ears were never a concern. Evolutionarily, he believed, men were born to be warriors and defend the tribe.
His ears merely connected him to ancestors who spanned the centuries—and one closer to home. When I was young, I worked a lot, too, so my hands were calloused. When I became an athlete and started wrestling, my ears became calloused. That was part of doing the work. Smith was wary at first of what has become a permanent accessory, a reminder of her fighting days that will never go away. When she had first gotten it, early in her career before turning pro, some of the young men at her gym were jealous.
They had trained for years and never gotten it, only for Smith to see her ear swell up almost immediately. But it always went away when she drained it, and she didn't think about it much. After the Eye fight, her ears bore the mark of combat—not just for a couple of days, but all the time.
This isn't cute. It's kind of gross," Smith says. He told me about being in Japan and the wrestlers there rubbing each other's ears and trying to give each other cauliflower ear because it was a cool symbol of dedication and perseverance there. That's a different take on it. That's kind of cool. As Strand pointed out, in some cultures a cauliflower ear is a status symbol, signifying the wearer is a participant in combat training.
While some American wrestling programs encourage the use of head gear to prevent it with some success , athletes in other countries often seek out the required trauma instead.
Some people are more prone to it than others, though. I know guys that wrestled their whole lives—some of the toughest guys in the world—and they never had any problems. Their ears look just like yours. The referee called the fight to a halt and the doctor inspected the ear, eventually letting the bout continue. However, once the action continued, Zaromskis hit Sakuraba hard in the ear once again, this time his ear partially tore off from his head and the fight was stopped.
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