Name one thing in pro MMA more exciting than a flying-knee knockout like the one we saw from Chris Beal. Don’t give me gogoplata or calf slicer. Don’t lean back in your leather chair, chickory in hand, and proclaim that “five frenetic rounds of only the most elite cardiovascular athletes working feverishly but methodically to break the will of the other man using only the four barest limbs what the lord’st given’st him” is the top thing, either.
No, “flying knee” is what we’re looking for. And here are the five such maneuvers, over the course of all of major league MMA history (sorry, no Nebraska State Fair entries) that resulted in the best knockouts or TKOs. They made it for violence, for quickness and for just being in the right place at the right moment.
And if you have one that you like but isn’t mentioned, it’s because it didn’t make our final cut. Remember! As always, all ratings are final and objective.
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