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Anderson Silva vs. Vitor Belfort, UFC 126

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Photo via Heavy.com

After months and months of waiting, the MMA world
finally got its wish: a match up between the two best strikers in the
middleweight division. Many questioned how the apparently-invincible Anderson Silva would handle someone with comparable striking prowess, and former champion Vitor Belfort
seemed the perfect candidate to answer that question. Unfortunately for
Belfort and his supporters, Anderson passed the test with flying
colors, blasting his foe with a heretofore-unseen front kick directly to
the jaw and shunting him back into the morass of middleweight
contenders.
Patricky Freire vs. Toby Imada, Bellator 39
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After his brother’s rampage through the featherweight division, there
were high hopes for the elder "Pitbull" brother as he made his way into
the Bellator lightweight tournament. He took his first major step toward
fulfilling those hopes in the first round, knocking out former WEC
champion Rob McCullough
with nasty punches, but it was his sophomore effort against two-time
finalist Toby Imada that really put him on the map. After a short
feeling-out process, Patricky Freire absolutely leveled Imada with a
flying knee and, as the wobbly Judo specialist attempted to flee, put
him violently to sleep with a left hook, establishing his place in the
venerable pantheon of Bad Brazilians.
John Makdessi vs. Kyle Watson, UFC 129
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Photo via picdizzle.com

There was a lot of hype surrounding Canadian striker John Makdessi. In his UFC debut against Pat Audinwood,
he demonstrated one of the most varied and entertaining kicking games
we’ve seen thus far in the Octagon. Against "The Ultimate Fighter"
veteran Kyle Watson,
he seemed on his way to taking a unanimous decision, but his
passiveness despite a massive striking advantage tinged the bout with
disappointment. Seemingly sensing this displeasure, Makdessi faked a low
kick in the third round and unleashed a gargantuan spinning backfist,
leaving Watson out cold on impact and further cementing UFC 129 as one
of the craziest events in UFC history.
Lyoto Machida vs. Randy Couture, UFC 129

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Photo via www.cagedinsider.com

Randy Couture, after putting James Toney
to sleep in a laughable mismatch at UFC 118, stated his intention to
end his career with a bang against beleaguered former champion Lyoto Machida, who was attempting to bounce back from consecutive losses to Mauricio Rua and Quinton Jackson.
In the early going, the aging Couture seemed unable to impose his will,
getting picked apart at range and stymied in his attempts to work from
the clinch. Things went from bad to horrific in the second round,
however, as a jumping front kick straight out of "The Karate Kid" sent
Couture’s consciousness (not to mention a tooth) careening into the
audience, producing the event’s second KOTY candidate.
Cheick Kongo vs. Pat Barry, UFC Live: Kongo vs. Barry

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I distinctly remember yelling "He’s out!" at least
three times while watching this fight, referring to Kongo each time. To
this day, I still have absolutely no idea how he survived and even less
of an idea how he managed to muster up the presence of mind necessary to
knockout Pat Barry. This was an absolutely absurd knockout, and Cheick Kongo finally got something to be remembered for that doesn’t involve the gratuitous destruction of genitals.
Arthur Guseinov vs. Tyson Jeffries, M-1 Challenge XXVI: Bennett vs. Garner II
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M-1 catches a lot of flak for its management policies, but you can’t
deny that they know how to put on a show. Team Quest fighter Tyson Jeffries, after getting brutalized by Magomed Sultanakhmedov,
seemed on his way toward redeeming himself, taking down and controlling
Guseinov in the early going. This success wound up lasting just over a
minute before, returning to his feet, Guseinov uncorked a lethal
spinning backfist, leaving Jeffries unconscious well before he hit the
ground and damn near giving announcer Mauro Ranallo an aneurysm.
Marius Zaromskis vs. Bruno Carvalho, Rumble of the Kings

Things weren’t looking good for Marius Zaromskis, a
notoriously-undersized welterweight taking on a man who, by his own
admission, weighed 190 pounds on fight night. Indeed, the size
difference was astounding -- it looked like the fighters were two weight
classes apart. The "Whitemare," however, laughs at your pitiful
"logic," and fired off a Harold Howard-esque somersault kick, catching
Carvalho in the side of the head before finishing him off with punches.
While Carvalho is protesting the knockout, claiming that Zaromskis
greased (and that the kick was illegal and that the stoppage was early),
it’s fairly obvious that it’s just sour grapes. It’s not every day you
get knocked out by a natural lightweight with a move long-associated
with a coked-up Karate fighter.
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Cairo Rocha vs. Francisco Neves, Brazilian Fighting Championships: "Desafio dos Imortais"
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Yeah, nothing I say here could do this knockout justice. Watch the video. Trust me, it’s worth it.

That about does it.
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