Photos of Niko Price’s eye injury are so gruesome you could mistake it for special effects makeup from a movie, and wish you’d never seen

• Niko Price was beat up pretty bad in his third round doctor’s stoppage at UFC 249 in Jacksonville, Florida, on Saturday.
• Price was competing in a welterweight fight against Vicente Luque in the preliminary card of an event headlined by the interim UFC lightweight championship fight between Tony Ferguson and Justin Gaethje.
• Luque called Price an “awkward guy” to compete against in his post-fight comments, but closed the show with an overhand left so hard it floored the Floridian.
• Price was sent to hospital after the loss.
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This is Niko Price and Vicente Luque throwing punches at a behind-closed-doors MMA event in the VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena.

Price was competitive in the fight and even won the first round on two of the three judges’ scorecards, in cards seen by Insider.

A Luque overhand left which landed on Price’s orbital bone in the third round halted an all-out war.

The effects of Luque’s punching was telling, as Price’s face was a mess.

Price’s injury was so serious he was taken to the hospital to assess the extent of the damage to his orbital bone.

Source: TSN reporter Aaron Bronsteter, Twitter.

Watch the punch which was the beginning of the end right here:

DROPPED! 👊@VicenteLuqueMMA putting Price down in the third! #UFC249 pic.twitter.com/lTPVOJjIEW

— UFC (@ufc) May 10, 2020

Source: UFC.

Or here if you're in a different region:

Sound on for this one 😳

Vicente Luque with a devastating left hook that closed Niko Price's eye up...#UFC249 | BT Sport 1 HD pic.twitter.com/nzt6wIpK9L

— UFC on TNT Sports (@ufcontnt) May 10, 2020

Source: BT Sport.

Here's the in-Octagon aftermath:

The definition of the word WARRIOR. 👏

Give it up for @VicenteLuqueMMA and @NikoHybridPrice putting in a shift tonight! #UFC249 pic.twitter.com/TcZ4QDEISW

— UFC (@ufc) May 10, 2020

Source: UFC.

Luque called Price "awkward" to look good against but overall felt "happy with my performance." On victory, he said: "I feel good and I had fun in there."

Source: UFC.

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