Jackass star Steve-O has told of how he had a piece of his ear cut off by UFC legend Jon Jones in a gruesome stunt-gone-wrong.
The TV star is known for his wacky antics on MTV, including pranks and gruesome challenges. But he was left gushing with blood from the ear after attempting a gnarly stunt with Jones, who at the time had just defended his light-heavyweight title against Dominick Reyes.
Jones, who is a controversial figure in MMA circles for his chequered past outside the cage, was working with Steve-O, real name Stephen Glover, for a film shoot in the summer of 2020 when the plan went horribly wrong.
"Jon Jones had a try at giving me cauliflower ear," he recalled with Jones' former arch rival Daniel Cormier on his podcast Multifaceted. "So we're at Jon Jones' house and he's got these barbells with the weights.
"We put my ear in between the weights, the big round ones on the thing and he's elbowing them and my ear comes out of there and he says 'that's it, you've got it, that's cauliflower ear', and then a few days later, nothing happened."
The American prankster was frustrated not to have induced the ear deformity during their shoot, so looked to take the idea further with a more aggressive approach. It was at this point that his ear gave out
"So the last thing we did, on one of his workout machines I put my ear on the metal base bar," he continued. "He puts his light heavyweight championship belt and he puts in on my ear on this metal thing and he's hitting it with a hammer.
"A full blown, Home Depot hammer and it seems like everything's cool and in this footage the hammer hits it and all of a sudden, one hit, blood just splatters from underneath this belt. We all freaked out.
"We look and sure enough my ear is blasted to where a whole piece of my ear is just hanging down. And it's the most intense thing you've ever seen, we got a pair of scissors and just chopped off this whole piece of my ear. Jon did it, Jon chopped it, just one piece."
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The footage was used for his 2021 tour 'The Bucket List', where he showed off stunts that were deemed too extreme for the new Jackass movie that was released this year. He claims that it was so graphic there were fans passing out after watching it.
"Now, you wouldn't even be able to tell," he continued. "I screened this footage during my bucket list show - I have three bits that can make a full grown man just pass the f*** out.
"Thank god I got that footage with Jon Jones because, dude, it's epic. The blood splatters everywhere, he cuts the piece off my ear and it's the best of both worlds because the footage is insane because I don't have to deal with actually having cauliflower ear."
