Missed Fists: Fighter eats head kick after failing to exploit grounded fighter rule

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

One way or the other, regardless of the all-encompassing black gap that was UFC 300 absorbing all the pieces in its path final weekend, there have been different promotions capitalizing on struggle fever. Then once more, a number of of these occasions happened on UFC Fight Pass, so it truly is simply Dana White and firm’s world, isn’t it?

This week, we function a number of adventures in MMA protection (or lack thereof), beginning with the type of gamesmanship that one can solely shake their head at.

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Virgil Augen vs. Vlad Gutu
Alioune Nahaye vs. Luis Miguel Aular

Followers just about unanimously hate the grounded fighter guidelines that are supposed to shield fighters in overly susceptible positions from getting kicked or kneed within the head, however usually are abused to forestall in any other case efficient offense.

Living proof:

From the primary occasion of Ares FC 20 that went down final night time in Paris, Vlad Gutu thought he was being intelligent directing his fingertips to the mat to forestall Virgil Augen from kicking him. Happily for all of us, two issues occurred: 1) Augen timed a head kick completely in order that it landed simply as Gutu tried to the touch the mat and a pair of) referee Mark Goddard was on the ball and didn’t fall for that nonsense.

The kick didn’t put Gutu’s lights out, nevertheless it left him open to extra damaging pictures from Augen as he fruitlessly complained to Goddard as a substitute of, , truly defending himself towards Augen’s strikes. Augen went on to win by way of rear-naked choke in Spherical 3 to assert a vacant middleweight title.

I’m not going to be too exhausting on Gutu, a 23-year-old in simply his third professional struggle who clearly has a knack for entertaining antics. However perhaps he can fear rather less concerning the followers and the referee subsequent trip.

No notes wanted for veteran featherweight Alioune Nahaye, who earned a highlight-reel knockout with some relentless strain.

Luis Miguel Aular by no means discovered his footing as he backed as much as the cage, bouncing off of the fence proper into the trail of a leaping double knee that instantly shut him down.

Gennier Rojas vs. Diego Espinoza

Zipping over from Paris to Lima, Peru, we examine in on an newbie bout at Fusion FC 74 that had a completely brutal ending.

Barely a minute into their flyweight bout, Gennier Rojas caught Diego Espinoza’s foot and blasted him with a proper hand. The place this second actually went mistaken for Espinoza is that Rojas didn’t launch the foot, which created a swinging impact, inflicting the again of Espinoza’s head to splatter towards the canvas.

That thud is horrific. Let’s hope Espinoza was transported to the hospital ASAP.

Jimuwasha vs. Xiaoyu Liu

I used to be essential of Gutu’s protection earlier, however this legitimately might have been even worse.

From Jue Cheng King Battle Evening 82 in Shanxi, China:

Admittedly, that’s some spectacular velocity by Jimuwasha, however I can’t keep in mind the final time a fighter threw out a unadorned spin kick like that so early in a struggle and landed it flush. The official time of the stoppage was 10 seconds, however this might have been referred to as in half that point.

Devin Williams vs. Pierce Atchison

Nothing will high your entire MMA world freaking out when Max Holloway dropped Justin Gaethje with one second left of their struggle, however bless the oldsters at this current Fury Novice Collection occasion for making an attempt.

Devin Williams caught all of this head kick as Pierce Atchison lunged ahead, sending followers into hysterics. Give me unholy screaming over these canned commentary staff reactions any day, please.

You possibly can watch Williams vs. Atchison in its entirety and extra free fights from Fury Novice Collection 52 on YouTube.

Tomas Mudroch vs. Marian Jakubik

Over at Actual Battle Enviornment 16 in Opava, Czech Republic, light-weight Tomas Mudroch did what Jalin Turner did not do, pulling off a flawless walk-off knockout after hitting this flying knee.

Appears like he went for the sword slash celebration after, too. I assume Jiri Prochazka isn’t the one Czech samurai on the market.

Si Received Park vs. Yota Hayashi

Mudroch wasn’t the one one strolling it off, as Si Received Park matched that feat at a Street FC present in Seoul.

Anytime you punch somebody so exhausting that you simply trigger them to do a full 180, you’re going to win our Humpty Dumpty Fall of the Week award. This was additionally Park’s second protection of his light-weight title because the 22-year-old improved to 6-0 as a professional.

Free fights from Street FC 68 can be found to look at on YouTube.

Daro Lew vs. Bagieta

What’s that? How is the quasi-combat sports activities/influencer kickboxing scene going over in Poland? Humorous you point out it.

It’s going simply nice.

That’s “Daro Lew” a.ok.a. Dariusz Kazmierczuk touchdown a stupendous backfist on “Bagieta” a.ok.a. Michal Gorzelanczyk at a Prime MMA Present in Warsaw. Throughout their socials, Daro Lew and Bagieta are each within the low six figures with regards to social media following, with Daro Lew making his bones totally on Tik Tok and Bagieta on that Twitch gring.

Each males are veterans of the Polish influencer struggle scene, so it’s not like this was two newbies throwing palms. Nonetheless, there’s obtained to be a better solution to earn a click on, fellas.

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