by Chris Houten - @mrhouts
Everyone loves a great knockout, and 2013 was full of them.
From Mark Hunt’s jaw-breaking knockout of Stephan Struve, to Emanuel Newton’s spinning back fist KO of Mo Lawal, to Paul Daley’s uppercut finish of Romario Manoel da Silva, 2013 has been a beauty. But in the year of the head kick KO, Kingdom MMA’s knock out of the year goes to Vitor Belfort, for his spinning heel kick knockout of Luke Rockhold.
There was some great kick Knockouts in 2013, with Chinzo Michada returning to the cage with a devastating flying knee, and Uriah Hall knocking out Adam Cella with a spinning hook kick but none of these knock out were as impressive as Belfort’s due to the quality of Belfort’s opponent.
Luke Rockhold entered the UFC as the last Strikeforce middleweight champion, and as so was billed as a contender for the UFC Middleweight title. In less than 3 minutes Belfort shattered Rockhold’s UFC title aspirations and ensured Rockhold would be a highlight real forever.
Thanks for that Belfort, we enjoyed it very much!
My personal favourite was martin sheridans helacious knee to jordan desborough at Cage warriors 62 :)
ReplyDeleteIt was certainly considered as we came to our decision. Perfectly timed and like the Paul Daley KO at Bamma truly knocked out his opponent. Great KO
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