You’d think that as a heavily tattooed boxer with a mohawk, cruiserweight Juan Carlos Robles would be maxed out on badass cred. Well, not quite. Robles wears a necklace… made from his own finger. THAT HE CUT OFF HIMSELF.
Following a 2007 motorcycle wreck that left him with a broken kneecap, fractured forearm, and dislocated elbow, Robles didn’t have the insurance coverage to amputate a pinkie finger that was mangled by road rash…
So he went home, put towels over the kitchen table and blocked off a working area with several two-by-fours. He put gauze around the area and twisted soldering wire around his right pinkie to slow the flow of blood. “Then I put a wood chisel on it and dropped a 15-pound weight on the chisel,” Robles said. “The piece shot out about six feet like a missile.”
The doctors were impressed by his amateur surgery, the wound healed perfectly, and Four-Finger Juan went back to beating people up for money. The only down side is that he was rejected from reality-boxing show "The Contender," because producers were concerned that he might murder the other contestants in a blind rage. I'm sure he could still make that work for him as a pugilist. Damn, that's cred.
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