He had several gashes on his face after the boxing match.

Do pitbull puppies leave gashes or puncture wounds

For Glory and Gashes - 2006 was released on:

USA: 5 May 2006 (video premiere)

USA: 16 September 2006 (Route 66 Film Festival)

By looking at evidence they can judg on what happened e.g. when a historian finds loads of buried skeletons and many of them have gashes on the bones the historian can say that it might have been a war and because it was gashes, therefore swords it was somewhere aroung 18th century (probably not)

sort of a dumb question to ask, because scars are gashes in your skin that are either permenant or go away in like years.