In boxing, it’s expected that you’re going to get the shit beaten out of you. It comes with the territory, and the paycheck. But getting your orbital bone fractured — as junior middleweight Alfredo Angulo did in this weekend — is a whole new level of grotesque that nobody appreciates.

Mixed martial artists are used to suffering brutal injuries — battered eye sockets and broken bones come with the territory. But no man is prepared to deal with an injury like the one Michael Waylon Lowe inflicted upon himself when he used the Kama Sutra Pleasure Balm Prolonging Gel during a September bout of “lovemaking.”

Leandro Barbosa went down Monday night with an injury that didn’t look pretty. It begs the question: Can you play guard for the Boston Celtics? They’re starting to look a little thin.

Even though the Yankees beat the Red Sox 5-4 Wednesday night to maintain a first-place tie in the AL East, it wasn’t all pretty for the struggling Bombers. Derek Jeter has added injury to insult to injury. It isn’t pretty, Yankee fans.

About a week ago, A’s pitcher Brandon McCarthy was struck in the head by a line drive, in a most cringe-worthy moment, leaving the crowd at the O.co Coliseum awestruck and silent. While there won’t be any baseball left for him to play in 2012, he is in fact healthy enough to tweet, which he did in hilarious fashion upon returning home earlier today. More after the jump.

The Fierce Five, not to be confused with these guys — or to a lesser extent, these guys — had us wondering whether or not they were actually gymnasts anymore, or just full-time late-night TV couch potatoes. Rest assured, they’ve been touring the land doing more than just sitting, but Internet sensation McKayla Maroney and mom-who’s-an-Internet-sensation Aly Raisman forgot how to do that without hurting themselves, much to the concern of the Kellogg’s Tour Of Gymnastics Champions audience. Watch what happened after the jump.

Yes, this injury was so bad we had to censor the gruesome scene in the screen cap, just so those who are faint of heart don’t have to forcibly stomach what happened to Marc Mariani Thursday night. Sitting with Joe Theismann and Willis McGahee on a pedestal you’d never want to be on, the broken ankle Mariani suffered in a pre-season game against the Cardinals is one of the more grotesque football injuries you’ll ever see — should you dare. You can press play after the jump, but don’t say we didn’t warn you.

Remember the days when $100 million bought baseball teams nothing but endless prosperity? You know, when those nine-figure contracts ensured a star player’s health and safety and basically put a World Series ring on everyone’s finger? Man, good times. If only they ever existed. Read about all the rich baseball players who have gotten injured, after the jump.

Sometimes here at SportsGrid, we try to come up with witty, slightly vague headlines that entice the readers to click through and read more. It’s a widely used tactic that absolutely has its time and place. This story, however, in which a quarterback was placed on the disabled list for simply raising two fingers in the air, requires us to be completely upfront about the situation. You might not believe us otherwise.

Just when we thought we had escaped another torn ACL in the NBA playoffs, news hit that Baron Davis had more than just a dislocated knee cap. His injury last night resulted in a torn ACL and a torn MCL. Projected recovery time: 12 months. Baron Davis — you were taken from us too young.