I just watched an interview with IFL fighter Benji “Razor” Radach, and he has endured a ludicrous number of awful injuries. I found an online interview where he explains some of what he’s gone through:
It’s been a crazy road. The first thing, it actually started right before my last fight with Chris Leben about three years ago, I was bit by a brown recluse spider, it got infected, and I had about a golf ball sized hole in my calf. I was just getting over that when I took the fight with Leben, we went into the third round and I got caught with a left hook and it broke my jaw.After that not much longer I had healed up from my jaw, which took about six months, and I was training to fight JT Taylor up at the Tacoma Dome with Tito Ortiz, Ivan Salaverry and Dennis Hallman. I was training with Ivan and afterwards I had this huge pain running through one side of my trap and down my back, so I went in and found out I had to have surgery because it was a herniated disk. It had broken off, was floating around and mashed up a bunch of nerves. So I woke up in the morning and couldn’t even flex my chest muscle in my right pec or my right tricep. I had to wait two months to have surgery due to my job and during that time I had lost the muscles down to the bone. I got surgery and took another six months or more to get through that or more actually.
I started rolling again, joined the ATT a year later, started getting in good shape and tore my meniscus in my knee. I hadn’t had an ACL in that knee since I was about 10 years old, so I decided to get both done at the same time. I went to LA, had the surgery and got a humungous staff infection in the knee. It was bad; they almost cut my leg off. I had to fight the infection for three months, I had a catheter in my arm that went all the way to my heart and had to have a nurse come in twice a day to deal with it. That was just last March or April when I had all that done. It’s kind of crazy where I’m at right now considering all the crazy stuff I’ve had happen to me.