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When a successful law-graduate cousin announces a plan to open a high-end restaurant in town, Azik’s loftiest dreams are reawakened — but one look at him, with his cauliflower ear and his antsy demeanor, is enough to tell you Azik is not someone for whom dreams readily come true.
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Guy Lodge, Variety, 13 May 2026
Athletes deal with cauliflower ears, weight cuts, brutal conditioning circuits, injuries and, sometimes, skin infections.
—Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Feb. 2026
These included a new brow bone, scars and a cauliflower ear.
—Bill Desowitz, HollywoodReporter, 13 Dec. 2025
However, the family disagreed, noting that Jenkins had a cauliflower ear while the other body didn’t.
—David Chiu, People.com, 22 Oct. 2024
Bloom is the center of the drama, his handsome leading man visage transformed by prosthetics that give him a broken nose, cauliflower ears, and a pugilist's demeanor.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 6 Sep. 2024
Besides Stallone and Statham, the sole returning original cast members are Dolph Lundgren (rocking the kind of hairdo any self-respecting scarecrow would reject) and Randy Couture, the butt of far too many cauliflower ear jokes.
—Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Guy Lodge, Variety, 13 May 2026
Athletes deal with cauliflower ears, weight cuts, brutal conditioning circuits, injuries and, sometimes, skin infections.
—Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Feb. 2026
These included a new brow bone, scars and a cauliflower ear.
—Bill Desowitz, HollywoodReporter, 13 Dec. 2025
However, the family disagreed, noting that Jenkins had a cauliflower ear while the other body didn’t.
—David Chiu, People.com, 22 Oct. 2024
Bloom is the center of the drama, his handsome leading man visage transformed by prosthetics that give him a broken nose, cauliflower ears, and a pugilist's demeanor.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 6 Sep. 2024
Besides Stallone and Statham, the sole returning original cast members are Dolph Lundgren (rocking the kind of hairdo any self-respecting scarecrow would reject) and Randy Couture, the butt of far too many cauliflower ear jokes.
—Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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“Cauliflower ear.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cauliflower%20ear. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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cauliflower ear
noun
cau·li·flow·er ear
ˌkȯ-li-ˌflau̇(-ə)r-, ˌkäl-i- 
: an ear deformed from injury and excessive growth of reparative tissue
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