#3 ’Skrap pack’ ‘Scarface’ ‘Scar (tissue) face pack’
Nate Diaz (19-11) is the TUF 5 (The Ultimate Fighter Season 5) winner and longtime UFC Lightweight contender. His older brother, Nick Diaz (26-9-2), is a former Strikeforce and WEC Welterweight champion and one of the most polarising personalities not only in the UFC organisation, but in all of MMA.
Both brothers have an MMA base of BJJ and boxing. Diego ‘Nightmare’ Sanchez (27-9) is the TUF Season 1 winner, with an MMA base of submission wrestling.
The Diaz bros, the heart of the ‘Skrap pack’, also comprising elite fighters such as Jake Shields and Gilbert Melendez, are the poster-boys of ‘scar tissue damage’. Whether it’s Nate’s UFC 196 and UFC 202 fights against Conor McGregor or Nick’s UFC 183 matchup against Anderson Silva, despite possessing some of the best pugilism in the UFC; the Diaz bros almost always come out of their fights wearing a blood mask.
Jackson-Wink pupil, Diego Sanchez, is yet another glaring example of a fighter affected by excessive scar tissue-buildup, getting cut by the lightest of grazing strikes, thrown by his opponents. Take his Fight-of-the-Night performance against the aforementioned Melendez, as the most obvious example of Sanchez’s sensitive facial skin.
Several elite MMA fighters such as the Diaz bros, Sanchez, Junior Dos Santos, Georges St-Pierre and many others bear mounds of extra facial layers on their faces, owing to previous damage taken over the course of their fighting careers.
Now although most of these UFC stars truck on, in spite of their faces being cut-open quite easily, there have been a few instances where they have been unable to continue, owing to these cuts endangering their vision. The biggest example of the aforementioned cut-stoppages is Nick Diaz’s TKO loss to K.J. Noons for the EliteXC Lightweight title in 2007; in the 1st of their 2 fights.
From Nick Diaz’s ‘Jigsaw’ face against K.J. Noons at EliteXC, to JDS’ ‘Pumpkin’ face in his 2nd and 3rd UFC fights against Cain Velasquez; UFC boasts of several resident Scarface heroes.
