Admit it — you like to see fighters get gruesomely hung out to dry once in a while. Our knockout of the day comes to us from a kickboxing show in Trieste, Italy, over the weekend, in which Tadas Jonkus knocks out Giuseppe Patane so thoroughly that Patane sloooowly tumbles out of the ring, head-first. The sight would almost be comical, if not for the fact that his landing surely added even more brain-damage to the concussion he already suffered from that blitz of punches. Arrivederci, my dude.
Meanwhile, halfway around the world in Albuquerque, boxing champion/MMA fighter Holly Holm suffered the first knockout loss of her career, eating it in the seventh round against Anne Sophie Mathis. The good news is, she didn’t fall on her head afterwards. The bad news is, she was basically K.O.’d through the ropes twice, due to a dangerously inept referee. Take a look…
Admit it — you like to see fighters get gruesomely hung out to dry once in a while. Our knockout of the day comes to us from a kickboxing show in Trieste, Italy, over the weekend, in which Tadas Jonkus knocks out Giuseppe Patane so thoroughly that Patane sloooowly tumbles out of the ring, head-first. The sight would almost be comical, if not for the fact that his landing surely added even more brain-damage to the concussion he already suffered from that blitz of punches. Arrivederci, my dude.
Meanwhile, halfway around the world in Albuquerque, boxing champion/MMA fighter Holly Holm suffered the first knockout loss of her career, eating it in the seventh round against Anne Sophie Mathis. The good news is, she didn’t fall on her head afterwards. The bad news is, she was basically K.O.’d through the ropes twice, due to a dangerously inept referee. Take a look…
Skip to the 3:26 mark to see Holm get clearly knocked out as she’s caught up in the ropes. The ref is kind enough to untangle her arm and send her out for more punishment, which Mathis is game enough to dish out. An ugly and unexpected loss for Jon Jones’s inter-gender sparring partner.
(“Yeah baby, I’d go three rounds with you. Wait a minute. Why are you glueing shards of broken glass to your hand-wraps? No. NO! FUUUUUUUUU-” / And then the caption-narrator died. The end.)
Known as “Beautiful Fighter” to her fans, South Korean kickboxing star Lim Su-Jeong has become something of a martyr in her home country after an appearance on the Japanese TV show “Flames Sports Competition” turned ugly last month. As NewAmericaMedia reports:
Soo-young Lim, 27, was seriously injured during what was supposed to be a mock match with three Japanese comedians on the show…All three of the men were wearing protective gear. Lim, a mixed martial artist, wore only gloves.
[T]he three comedians — Toshiaki Kasuga, 31, Hiroshi Shinagawa, 39, and Koji Imada, 45 — are known to have backgrounds in martial arts. During the fight, Lim was several times knocked down by kicks from the men that were executed “as skillfully as pros.” Lim and her management team have reportedly demanded an apology from the show’s producers.
Video of the incident is after the jump, via patrice on the UG; notice that Lim is the only one not wearing headgear. With tensions between Korea and Japan as uncomfortable as ever, some viewers interpreted the segment as an intentional act of humiliation. Your thoughts?
(“Yeah baby, I’d go three rounds with you. Wait a minute. Why are you glueing shards of broken glass to your hand-wraps? No. NO! FUUUUUUUUU-” / And then the caption-narrator died. The end.)
Known as “Beautiful Fighter” to her fans, South Korean kickboxing star Lim Su-Jeong has become something of a martyr in her home country after an appearance on the Japanese TV show “Flames Sports Competition” turned ugly last month. As NewAmericaMedia reports:
Soo-young Lim, 27, was seriously injured during what was supposed to be a mock match with three Japanese comedians on the show…All three of the men were wearing protective gear. Lim, a mixed martial artist, wore only gloves.
[T]he three comedians — Toshiaki Kasuga, 31, Hiroshi Shinagawa, 39, and Koji Imada, 45 — are known to have backgrounds in martial arts. During the fight, Lim was several times knocked down by kicks from the men that were executed “as skillfully as pros.” Lim and her management team have reportedly demanded an apology from the show’s producers.
Video of the incident is after the jump, via patrice on the UG; notice that Lim is the only one not wearing headgear. With tensions between Korea and Japan as uncomfortable as ever, some viewers interpreted the segment as an intentional act of humiliation. Your thoughts?
To be fair, we’ve seen Anthony Pettistry this sort of thing in an actual MMA fight. But to put somebody to sleep with it, even in the context of a semi-friendly sparring session, is pretty damn impressive. The kicker in question is a world-champion Muay Thai fighter named Saenchai Sinbimuaythai (formerly known as Saenchai Sor Kingstar). Check out more of Saenchai in the highlight reel after the jump.
To be fair, we’ve seen Anthony Pettistry this sort of thing in an actual MMA fight. But to put somebody to sleep with it, even in the context of a semi-friendly sparring session, is pretty damn impressive. The kicker in question is a world-champion Muay Thai fighter named Saenchai Sinbimuaythai (formerly known as Saenchai Sor Kingstar). Check out more of Saenchai in the highlight reel after the jump.
(Props: barochoc)
While cruising YouTube for Muay Thai knockout videos last night — hey, it’s my life and I can waste it any way I want — I came across this gem, filmed in Thailand a couple years ago. When you keep up a pace like that,…
While cruising YouTube for Muay Thai knockout videos last night — hey, it’s my life and I can waste it any way I want — I came across this gem, filmed in Thailand a couple years ago. When you keep up a pace like that, it’s only a matter of time before one guy catches a bad one. Watch as Mr. Red Shorts lands one of the nastiest cobra punches ever recorded, then knocks Blue out again with a head kick as soon as the poor bastard gets to his feet. Two questions: 1) Did that referee graduate from the Yves Lavigne School of Letting Fighters Suffer Multiple Concussions? and 2) Who would be watching soccer at a time like this? Anyway, good morning everybody…
(Photo courtesy of k-1.co.jp/en)
We probably won’t see Alistair Overeem compete again in Strikeforce until Fabricio Werdum recovers from his elbow injury — but the man’s gotta make a living somehow. K-1 confirmed yesterday that Overeem wou…
We probably won’t see Alistair Overeemcompete again in Strikeforce until Fabricio Werdum recovers from his elbow injury — but the man’s gotta make a living somehow. K-1 confirmed yesterday that Overeem would be part of the K-1 World GP 2010 championship tournament, which kicks off October 3rd in Seoul with the Final 16 round. The Demolition Man’s opponent will be Ben "The Guvner" Edwards, a 25-year-old Bulldog Gym product who’s been building a fierce reputation in Australia. In July, Edwards won the K-1 World Grand Prix 2010 in Canberra by scoring three consecutive first-round knockouts, with a total fight time of just 3:28. It was the fastest tournament win in K-1 history, smashing Jerome LeBanner’s previous record of 4:04, which LeBanner posted in Osaka nine years ago. Will Edwards make his name off an upset of Overeem? Check out some videos of the Guvner in action after the jump and let us know what you think…
