An American fighter nicknamed 'Pain' almost ripped his opponent's ear off during a UFC fight, and we've got photos to prove it

• The worst scene in Quentin Tarantino's "Reservoir Dogs" movie has been reimagined in real life, during a mixed martial arts contest at the UFC Fight Night 182 event Saturday.
• Max Griffin, who is nicknamed "Pain," almost ripped his opponent's ear from his skull with a scything elbow strike in the third round.
• As a caveat, this is exactly as it sounds.
• WARNING: If you don't want to see photos and video of a man's ear hanging from his skull, do not read this story.

An American fighter nicknamed "Pain" almost ripped his opponent's ear off during a UFC match.

It all went down during the preliminary card of Saturday's UFC Fight Night 182 event at the UFC Apex facility in Las Vegas, Nevada.

In the second bout of the evening, Max Griffin and Ramiz Brahimaj fought a welterweight match but the scrap had to be stopped midway through the third round as Brahimaj was in danger of losing his left ear.

Brahimaj kept holding his ear in place as blood poured from the open wound, leaking all over his face before staining the canvas.

Griffin had landed a scything elbow-strike which caught Brahimaj on the side of the head, separating much of the ear from the skull.

Brahimaj, who was already carrying wounds from war, seemingly wanted to continue fighting even though he was aware the loose ear was just flailing around in the air.

But when the referee Marc Smith saw what had happened, he called "stop" and ended the contest. Brahimaj won the bout with a doctor's stoppage.

"[With] an elbow over the top, Brahimaj is bloodied and battered," the UFC commentator Jon Anik said during the live broadcast on ESPN and BT Sport. "It looks like his ear … his ear is in a world of trouble."

Photos below are eerily reminiscent of that horrific scene from the Quentin Tarantino movie "Reservoir Dogs" … but are kind of worse.

If you've gotten this far, you'll probably want to see the video.

Here it is (WARNING: It is pretty graphic):

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After the fight, Griffin said: "The last thing I remember was, I looked back at his ear like, 'Oh, it's over.'"

With victory Griffin advanced his pro MMA record to 16 wins (eight knockouts, two submissions, and six decisions) against eight losses.

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