Order Now with Main Event on Kayo Sports.<\/a><\/p>\nAnd it was the act of the heads coming together which appeared to cause the devastating blows to the fighter\u2019s mouth as Tierney shared the extent of his horrific injuries on social media.<\/p>\n
His teeth were clearly disfigured and his lip covered in blood \u2014 while he also posted an X-ray showing his jaw snapped into two pieces.<\/p>\n
Alongside the shocking images of his mouth, Tierney, 31, also confirmed his retirement from the sport.<\/p>\n
The fighter, who is also a chartered surveyor, said: \u201cBare-knuckle has been some journey but this injury is it for me.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve had a fantastic career, I really have. I hope I\u2019ve inspired as many people as I aimed to.<\/p>\n
\u201cThank you to everyone who has shown support over the years.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne thing I\u2019m proud of is the legacy I\u2019ll leave behind when it comes to support and atmosphere.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u00a3105,000 tickets done for last night, \u00a360,000 for the Danny Christie fight last year, you won\u2019t get many homegrown fighters do that amount that haven\u2019t come off the back of a big boxing or MMA background, and even then I would have outsold a vast majority of them big time fighters!<\/p>\n
\u201cLike I always said, I wanted to be the Ricky Hatton of it, the people\u2019s champion. I got to do that so I\u2019m trying [to be] grateful.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tierney retires with a record of nine wins and three losses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WARNING: This article includes images that may cause distress A shockingly gruesome injury has forced a bare knuckle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-707593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}