Moments after dispatching his opponent, Dusan Dzakic went to work saving the man’s life.Dzakic, a Serbian MMA fighter, won his bout at Serbian Battle Championship 4 in December by submitting Croatian fighter Sebastijan Emini with a chokehold. Emi…
Moments after dispatching his opponent, DusanDzakic went to work saving the man’s life.
Dzakic, a Serbian MMA fighter, won his bout at Serbian Battle Championship 4 in December by submitting Croatian fighter SebastijanEmini with a chokehold. Emini’s tap-out came not a moment too soon, as the Croatian was literally choking to death in Dzakic’s grasp.
Deadspin’s Kevin Draper spotted footage of the scary moment (tap-out occurs around the 4:15 mark). Dzakic released Emini, recognized the danger before him and immediately began helping to resuscitate his opponent.
Emini eventually recovered thanks to Dzakic and the help of the medical staff. Even more, he had the strength to stand as the judge awarded Dzakic his victory.
The two men shook hands after the fight in what appeared to be a very earnest show of mutual respect.
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Let this be a lessen in technique, kids.
“Gina” and “Paul” appeared to have gotten into a good-natured grappling match, but then things got intense fast.
Gina pulled guard quickly for a takedown, letting her opponent gain the top position, but giving …
Let this be a lessen in technique, kids.
“Gina” and “Paul” appeared to have gotten into a good-natured grappling match, but then things got intense fast.
Gina pulled guard quickly for a takedown, letting her opponent gain the top position, but giving herself a powerful jiu-jitsu hold. It also helped neutralize the height difference between the two.
Then things got dirty. Gina took a few blows and even said, “We’re slamming now?” when her opponent did just that.
Eventually, Gina had enough and channeled her inner Ronda Rousey, finishing with an armbar and forcing a tapout.
Say what you want about former American League MVP and six-time MLB All-Star Jose Canseco, but the man believes in himself.
With news that former WWE megastar CM Punk is joining the UFC to kick off his mixed martial arts career, Canseco took to Twitter…
Say what you want about former American League MVP and six-time MLB All-Star Jose Canseco, but the man believes in himself.
With news that former WWE megastar CM Punk is joining the UFC to kick off his mixed martial arts career, Canseco took to Twitter to offer a challenge:
I can beat the crap out of @cmpunk. I am ready @ufc
It should be noted that CM Punk walks around at 215 pounds. Even though he’s looking to fight at around 185 pounds, Punk is no small man. He’s also made millions of dollars by taking pain in the pro wrestling ring, and he is trained in kempo and Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
We’ve also seen Canseco in the ring. In 2009, he got destroyed by 7’2″ kickboxer Choi Hong-man.
Here’s video, in case you were curious:
So, yeah, good luck beating “the crap out of” CM Punk, Jose. We’d all like to see it.
Anderson “Spider” Silva is arguably the greatest MMA fighter of all time, and the final chapter of his in-ring career will soon begin.After suffering a horrendous leg injury during a title fight rematch vs. current UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidm…
Anderson “Spider” Silva is arguably the greatest MMA fighter of all time, and the final chapter of his in-ring career will soon begin.
After suffering a horrendous leg injury during a title fight rematch vs. current UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman on December 28, 2013, Silva’s career was in doubt. He has relentlessly rehabbed since then, however, and will face Nick Diaz on January 31, 2015, in his first fight back.
In this epic commercial, we see Silva beaten down and lying in the bottom of a seemingly inescapable pit.
With a devastating spinning backfist, amateur bantamweight prospect Jessica Middleton earned herself a place in the nightmares of fighters everywhere. At BlackOut Fighting Championship 26 on November 8 in Kansas City, Missouri, Middleton drop…
With a devastating spinning backfist, amateur bantamweight prospect Jessica Middleton earned herself a place in the nightmares of fighters everywhere.
At BlackOut Fighting Championship 26 on November 8 in Kansas City, Missouri, Middleton dropped opponent Holly Torrez to the mat in a cold, unconscious heap.
Torrez fully paid the price when she bit on a one-two-punch decoy that Middleton sold beautifully.
Chris Weidman found the life of a stranger in his hands Thursday morning.
The 30-year-old mixed martial artist champion was going about his preparations for the day when he suddenly found himself frantically working to save the life of his 94-year-old …
Chris Weidman found the life of a stranger in his hands Thursday morning.
The 30-year-old mixed martial artist champion was going about his preparations for the day when he suddenly found himself frantically working to save the life of his 94-year-old neighbor.
MMAFighting.com’s Shaun Al-Shatti brings us the story of Weidman’s desperate attempts to stabilize an elderly woman who would have surely perished had the fighter not heard her cries for help.
Weidman told the story to Al-Shatti, explaining that his day began like any other.
“I was supposed to go pick up Stephen Thompson and his brother at the airport, LaGuardia, this morning,” Weidman told Al-Shatti. “So I was trying to clean out my car and it was a torrential downpour this morning. So I’m cleaning it out and all of a sudden I started hearing this noise—’Ahhh! Ahhh! Ahhh!’”
Weidman said he went out into the rain and saw a figure down the block standing in a driveway on the phone. He said the figure’s body language didn’t appear panicked, and he assumed the sound was coming from someone else.
He went back to cleaning his car but decided to take a drive down the block when the noise continued.
“I had my window down and I started listening,” Weidman said. “And as I’m driving past the person, I could realize it’s an older lady and she’s yelling, ‘Help me! Help me!’”
The fighter jumped out of his car, ran to the woman and saw her bleeding profusely. He then brought her to his car and drove back to his garage, where he called 911 and tried to stop the heavy bleeding.
“I call 911 and am like, ‘Listen, I have a really elderly lady here, she’s bleeding really bad, doesn’t look good. We need someone here immediately.’”
The next 20 to 30 minutes felt like an eternity, Weidman told Al-Shatti. The fighter called the police multiple times, eventually having to phone a friend on the force to get paramedics to the scene.
He maintains that, during that time, the woman wavered between states of shock and panic. She said that she fell through a glass table inside her home, had five grandchildren and wanted to live “one more year.” Weidman held paper towels over her wounds and tried to keep her calm.
“I was there, trying to have her talk about normal things to distract her. … I’m telling her, ‘You’re fine! You’re fine! You’re not dying today!’ … I’m trying to talk to her about her dogs, anything to take her mind off it.”
The paramedics arrived and took the woman to the emergency room. Weidman said the woman was coherent when she was being taken away, but he doesn’t know her current condition. The fighter said he feels lucky to have been in the right place at the right time to respond.
“I’m very lucky and blessed that I actually went that way to see what the heck that noise was, because otherwise, the block that I live on is pretty much a dead end,” Weidman said.
“No one drives down there, and she was in shock. She wasn’t able to make phone calls. She had her phone in her hand, but she wasn’t going to be able to make a phone call. … So she was smart, she crawled outside and was yelling ‘help me’ in the middle of the freaking rain.”
Weidman said the encounter has given him a new appreciation for the jobs of first responders, paramedics and everyone whose job it is to save lives.
“They’re the heroes and no one is hearing about it,” Weidman said. “I just happened to be at the right place, right time.”
The woman’s identity has yet to be discerned, but we’ll keep you updated as more details emerge. Suffice to say, however, Weidman’s actions on Thursday saved or prolonged a life very much in need of a hero.
