The flashy hands down style of fighting popularized by MMA icon Anderson Silva, MMA veteran Genki Sudo, and Bellator MMA star Michael ‘Venom’ Page to name just a few, has produced incredible knockouts such as Anderson Silva’s KO of Vitor Belfort and Michael Page’s knockout of Cyborg Santos.
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While this style of fighting certainly delivers some rather exciting knockouts, it also results in some pretty brutal knockouts as you can see above!
In this clip, Johan Segas lands a brutal head kick KO on Joe Harding at British Challenge MMA 18, ending the fight with a left head kick that Harding never saw coming.
Punches are expected in combat sports like MMA, boxing, and even in hockey, but you don’t, as a general rule, expect to see anyone throwing hands in the refined sport of horse racing.
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