UFC 131 Results: Shane Carwin and the Most Gruesome Post-Fight Faces in the UFC

Former heavyweight title challenger Shane Carwin took a three-round beating in his bout with Junior dos Santos, and he will have a lot of scars to show for it.

Carwin, who is known for being a 40-hour workman outside the cage, looked as if he took a 40-punch combination to the face, and the photo doesn't hide anything.

It wasn't pretty, and the brutal massacre left him with numerous cuts under both his eyes and around his nose. He was bleeding from the mouth and the nose for the majority of the bout.

There have been several gruesome looking images of post-fight faces this year, and Carwin's face definitely makes the list, surpassing some, but not all of them.

No. 5: John Howard (vs. Jake Ellenberger at UFC Live)

John Howard was one of the fastest rising prospects in the welterweight division until he met hard-punching Jake Ellenberger at UFC Live last August.

The Muay Thai expert had taken a series of head shots that made his face swell up between the second and third rounds. Right hands continued to land before the referee called the doctor in to see the fighter.

To Howard's dismay, the doctor called off the bout, giving Ellenberger the win and leaving Howard with a massive swollen eye to take care of.

No. 4: Shane Carwin (vs. Junior Dos Santos at UFC 131)

In the heavyweight division, you can expect to see some power-punching giants do some damage with their fists.

Nobody expected Carwin to take this bad of a pummeling before being knocked out, but he did and he survived the entire 15-minute distance to lose a unanimous decision.

Junior dos Santos left nothing back in the first round of his fight with Carwin at UFC 131, and he gave him a beating he will always remember.

Carwin, who works full-time as an engineer when he's not fighting, will probably be looking to take off a couple days...or weeks.

No. 3: Marcus Davis (vs. Nate Diaz at UFC 118)

Welterweight and lightweight fighter Marcus Davis has always had paper-thin skin from years of boxing, but Nate Diaz took more advantage of it than anybody before.

Diaz used his volume punching and looping shots to stun the 37-year-old in the first and second rounds. Davis' face began to swell and bleed early, and it was only getting worse for him as the fight went on. More cuts opened up, and his right eye began to swell massively.

From the back of Davis, you could see how big the bruise had gotten as you saw it peeking out the side. It didn't take very long after Diaz got Davis to the ground, and he followed up by slapping on a choke to put him to sleep.

No. 2: Mark Hominick (vs. Jose Aldo at UFC 129)

Mark Hominick's hematoma was extremely brutal looking and slightly reminiscent of Hasim Rahman's versus Evander Holyfield in boxing.

Even with blood pouring out of the cuts beneath his eyes, the 28-year-old battled one of the top pound-for-pound fighters in the world for five-rounds, losing a unanimous decision in the end.

The cuts were not anywhere near as gruesome as the hematoma, but all of it together made one nasty looking post-fight image of a true warrior.

No. 1: Diego Sanchez (vs. Martin Kampmann at UFC on Versus)

Nothing was ever as harrowing-looking as Diego Sanchez's face after his bout versus Martin Kampmann. It was so horrific, it was actually terrifying.

With blood streaming down his face from every opening, it looked like something out of a horror movie.

Kampmann had out-boxed The Ultimate Fighter winner for the better part of two rounds before Sanchez came back to rally in the final round with his face looking like a mess.

Sanchez won a controversial split-decision in the end, but his face told the real story of the fight.