The former certainly looks like a prizefighter who has been battered senseless by a meaner, leaner opponent; the latter has endured an equally bruising encounter in the ring but has walked away bleeding badly but still standing after a 12-round points draw.
They might have put a brave face on things, but being a target for mass booing and urine-filled missiles must have been a bruising experience.
The group of students allege that police then grabbed one of them by the neck for up to five seconds and pushed him, causing bruising.
This being a press conference, he didn't talk about bruising negotiations with major labels for Spotify's licensing deals – and he certainly didn't mention the leaked contract between his company and Sony Music that was published this week by The Verge, providing an eye-opening insight into the business terms around streaming music back in 2011.
Hungary reached the semis thanks to a 4-2 win in a bruising encounter with Brazil – "They behaved like violent enemies without respect for our physical safety," reckoned Puskas from his vantage point in the stands – while Germany squeezed past 1952 Olympic silver medallists Yugoslavia 2-0.
Grosics did his best between the posts, but the team succumbed to Wales in a bruising play-off, thus failing to advance beyond the first stage.
The victory for the FA represents a gentle reintroduction to the bruising world of bidding for international tournaments after the humiliation and controversy of its £21m 2018 World Cup bid, which received just two votes.
A bruising legacy that every single one of those 17 England players with World Cup experience under their belts has felt over the years.
After bruising revelations regarding the company's working relations with the National Security Agency NSAA), Smith has emerged as one of the technology industry's loudest voices for reform and greater openness.
Ferguson's diving header stunned both the players and crowd, and although the Borowska would hit a post late on, Redford clinched the famous win, his last-minute goal meaning that two ex-Rangers men had helped knock out a team that had beaten their former employers in a bruising third-round match.
The allegations of dirty tricks in South Thanet, where Farage failed to get elected last week, comes after a bruising 48 hours in which Patrick O'Flynn, a senior Ukip figure and MEP, accused some in the leader's inner circle of running an overly aggressive campaign.
