Top 10 Humiliating Sports Injuries

Injuries are very common in each and every sports. Because of physical activities happening during a game players are all vulnerable to any kind of physical damages. Most of the time injuries are commonly happening to the extreme sports. And even in wrestling (WWE) even though it is already scripted, because the stunts are very dangerous, wrestlers also get injured most of the time. But believe it or not, it also happen even in the less physical activity sports. Injuries may lead to a very serious result and can cause a player to never play for several days, weeks, even years and the worst is never able to play again. For this top ten article the featured players are mostly baseball players and American football players. Is this their way of getting too much attention from the crowd? By getting themselves injured in a humiliating or embarrassing way? Or the injuries happened really by just accident? Have some time to see the top 10 humiliating sports injuries list below.

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TOP : 10
Name : Darius Vassell (England)
Sports Profession : Football Player

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Injury Caused : Misses several matches after power drilling his own toe to relieve swelling. The toe got infected.

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TOP : 9
Name : Mark Buehrle (USA)
Sports Profession : Baseball Player

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Injury Caused : Sliced his thumb open on his throwing hand while trying to open a jar of mayo.

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TOP : 8
Name : Plaxico Burress (USA)
Sports Profession : American Football Player

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Injury Caused : Shot himself in the leg at a nightclub. Went to jail for two years.

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TOP : 7
Name : Sammy Sosa (Dominican Republic)
Sports Profession : Baseball Player

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Injury Caused : Tore several ligaments in his back after a particularly violent sneeze.

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TOP : 6
Name : Joel Zumaya (USA)
Sports Profession : Baseball Player

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Injury Caused : Once missed the playoffs because of a wrist injury caused by playing too much "Guitar Hero".

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TOP : 5
Name : David Batty (United Kingdom)
Sports Profession : Football Player

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Injury Caused : Injured his Achilles tendon after being run over by a tricycle ridden by a toddler.

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TOP : 4
Name : Chris Hanson (USA)
Sports Profession : American Football Player

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Injury Caused : Cut his own leg open with an ax while chopping a log in the changing room.

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TOP : 3
Name : Adam Eaton (USA)
Sports Profession : Baseball Player

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Injury Caused : Tried to open a DVD player with a knife. Stabbed himself in the stomach.

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TOP : 2
Name : John Smoltz (USA)
Sports Profession : Baseball Player

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Injury Caused : burned himself while ironing his shirt. He was still wearing it.

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TOP : 1
Name : Glenallen Hill (USA)
Sports Profession : Baseball Player

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Injury Caused : Injured for 15 days after falling out of bed - he was trying to escape from imaginary spiders in his dream

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Data Sources :

• www.en.wikipedia.org
• www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggXCouITCZg
• The Daily Beast
• ESPN
• CBC
• BBC
• Metro - UK

Photos Sources :

• copyright, getty images
• www.thestar.com
• www.upi.com
• www.listal.com
• www.espn.go.com
• www.independent.co.uk
• www.en.wikipedia.org
• www.arizonasports.com
• www.groupcse.com
• www.sportsillustrated.cnn.com

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Please be noted that the top 10 that we are including here in our blog are all unofficial rankings unless otherwise noted. Most of the top ten lists are based on Google search results and collected mainly from different blogs and websites around the internet world.

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