Missed Fists: Guilherme Mendonca scores mid-air knockout of leaping opponent

Welcome to the newest version of Missed Fists the place we shine a lightweight on fights from throughout the globe which will have been missed in these hectic occasions the place it looks like there’s an MMA present each different day.

It was an enormous weekend for non-UFC promotions, with PFL giving us the most effective fights of the yr up to now, BKFC delivering a historic card in Philadelphia that rocked from high to backside, and GFL doing regardless of the hell the GFL is doing.

And with all that there was nonetheless superb MMA motion happening throughout the globe from the streets of Sao Paulo to the unique land of Prior Lake, Minn., to the frozen tundra of Canada, to Radom, Poland (I don’t know loads about Radom).

If BKFC didn’t scratch that violence itch, try this face-eraser from Brazil.

(Huge thanks as at all times to @Barrelelapierna for his or her weekly lists of the perfect KOs and submissions, and to @Grabaka_Hitman for importing most of the clips you see right here. Give them a comply with and chip in on Patreon in the event you can.)

Guilherme Mendonca vs. Anderson Zargo

Final week, we noticed Hamidreza Tayebinia land a knockout punch on a leaping opponent that evoked the ending Fedor-Arlovski and guess what? It occurred once more! And this one was a lot worse.

From a Copa Thunder Combat occasion in Sao Paulo, Guilherme Mendonca learn Anderson Zargo completely and blasted him with a counter left as Zargo left his toes for some inexplicable motive. The mixture of Mendonca’s well-timed strike and Zargo’s ill-timed leap resulted in sheer devastation as Zargo needed to be stretchered out after.

Leaping strikes are nice, children, however generally you simply find yourself falling right into a black gap.

Take a look at a full replay of the occasion under, together with one other angle of that nasty KO.

Ethyn Ewing vs. Santos Verdinez
Chris Mixan vs. Joey Hart
Devon Lozej vs. Enrique Pacheco
Lerryan Douglas vs. Elijah Johns

An enormous congratulations to Legacy Preventing Alliance for placing on its two hundredth occasion. Actual ones will bear in mind this promotion formally kicked off in 2017, the results of a merger between two outstanding regional promotions, Legacy Preventing Championship and Resurrection Preventing Alliance. Loads of future stars handed by means of LFC, together with future UFC champions Holly Holm and Valentina Shevchenko, plus Derrick Lewis, Tim Means, Diego Ferreira, and Sage Northcutt amongst others; at the moment, LFA stays a pipeline for up-and-coming expertise.

Living proof, let’s begin our have a look at this previous Saturday’s present with Ethyn Ewing.

Ewing completely rocked Santos Verdinez with a straight proper, which regarded prefer it might have stopped the combat there. Nevertheless, wasn’t out out, so he managed to get again up, which left him open for a devastating head kick KO.

We’ve beforehand given out the “Name An Ambulance, However Not For Me” award for loopy comebacks, however this one deserves the inaugural “Name An Ambulance, No, Significantly, Name An Ambulance” award.

Chris Mixan’s counter-punch knockout wasn’t fairly as spectacular, however no much less efficient.

Typically all it takes is a precision boop to finish issues.

Devon Lozej took a 9-iron to Enrique Pacheco’s abdomen, prompting a well-recognized stoppage by the referee.

Preventing out of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Lozej brings some welcome Canadian content material to those components (extra of that later!)

A trio of title fights headlined LFA 200, capped off by Lerryan Douglas unifying the featherweight titles.

Douglas defeated undisputed champion Elijah Johns—yup, the brother of UFC bantamweight Miles Johns—to attain the momentous victory, a pleasant feather within the cap of a man who’s been a professional since 2013.

We even have to provide shout-outs to Russia’s Shamidkhan Magomedov, an Final Fighter 32 contestant that unified the welterweight titles and boosted his file to 10-1 with a submission of Vanilto Antunes, and Canada’s personal Shannon Clark, who bounced again from an awfully disappointing loss on Contender Sequence with a break up nod over Cheyanne Bowers to defend her flyweight title.

LFA 200 is accessible for replay on UFC Combat Cross.

Ferdaws Nayimi vs. Potey Dwahy
Radley Da Silva vs. Drew Brokenshire
Roman Tassone vs. Derek Bergen

Additionally on UFC Combat Cross, we had much more CanCon, with Unified MMA happening in Toronto and Battlefield Combat League occurring in Vancouver.

Ferdaws Nayimi secured probably the most aggressive end at Unified MMA 62, mixing the entire martial arts to place away Potey Dwahy.

You bought your boxing, you bought your ground-and-pound, you bought your jiu-jitsu. What extra are you able to ask for?

At Battlefield Combat League 82, Radley Da Silva additionally delivered a formidable choke-out, one which I’d additionally file underneath “Simply Bleed End of the Week.”

Gross.

For a barely much less grisly choke, let’s try Roman Tassone scoring a win in his professional debut.

Slick. And never, like, slick with blood, simply regular slick.

Andi Vrtacic vs. Cezariusz Kesik
Muslim Tulshaev vs. Daniel Skibinski
Miha Frlic vs. Kamil Gawryjolek

Misplaced all of that different hullabaloo, KSW 102 went down on Saturday and it didn’t disappoint.

Andi Vrtacic one way or the other discover victory by spinning and spinning and spinning till he spun proper right into a backfist that cracked Cezariusz Kesik’s jaw.

Jeez, I haven’t seen a blood vortex like that because the alternate ending of Blade.

I’ve watched Vrtacic throw three spinning again kicks in a row so many occasions and I can’t cease cackling. By some means, that didn’t get him countered or taken down and truly led fantastically into the backfist. Fight sports activities!

That end was the alternative of what Muslim Tulshaev did right here.

Tulshaev stood within the pocket with Daniel Skibinski, conserving his cool the entire time, and discovering the opening for a proper hand on the cash. I’ve rewatched that one a couple of occasions as nicely, simply to attempt to see what Tulshaev was seeing in that second. He truly ate a few glancing photographs earlier than touchdown his personal, so he was proper in there. The road between victory and defeat is that skinny.

OK, sufficient waxing poetic. Let’s wrap up the week with meaty males slapping meat.

Miha Frlic put it on Kamil Gawryjolek and simply hearken to these punches. These are large boy smacks. It sounds just like the gloves themselves are mic’d up, that’s how laborious these had been. When Gawryjolek lastly goes down, it appears like somebody spilling a load of bricks onto concrete.

In summation: OW!

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