John Abraham known for his action scenes in Bollywood films has pushed himself to the extreme! Recently, the actor shot a fight scene for his upcoming film Race 2 with professional South Indian fighter and former Mr Universe Andrew, despite being injured with a deep gash in his back that required up to 14 stitches.

Talking about the scene, says director Abbas "Itâ??s a unique action sequence that hasn't been seen in any film so far. John's physique is such that it was necessary to get a competitor as good as him. When we did a research we found Andrew whoâ??s a former Mr Universe.

Both of them were trained for the sequence before they shot. When the action starts, a huge cage comes down that is made of iron bars. John was injured several times, but we would never realise that till the days' shoot was over.

Even when John got a 14 inch cut, we did not know it. Later, we thought we won't be able to shoot for at least four-five days, but John continued despite the injury". Race 2 also stars Saif Ali Khan, John Abraham, Deepika Padukone, Jacqueline Fernandez, Anil Kapoor and Ameesha Patel is scheduled to release January 25, 2013.