Courtesy of seanbaby at cracked.com, this is freakin’ hilarious. Whoever set up the fight for #3 ought to be criminally charged.
Yeah, #3 is fucking messed up.
The first fight I ever saw Wanderlei Silva in was a superior ragdoll moment to the one they showed. He was the underdog in the fight and had knocked the other dude out in a few seconds without the other guy even really getting any hits in.
Seanbaby has been the funniest thing on the internet for the last decade or so.
What’s a better ragdoll knockout, “the other dude” or THE Rampage Jackson? Seeing him fall into the ropes out cold is like watching someone punch a hole in a tank and rip out the screaming driver. It’s just not even fucking imaginable.
Well ‘the other dude’ was a name too, I just wasn’t that up on MMA and didn’t know who he was, just as I don’t know who THE Rampage Jackson was until watching him get knocked the fuck out by Silva. Still the other knockout was a better rag doll moment because Silva wasn’t getting the shit kicked out of him for like three minutes before it.
The first one I ever saw was the Nelmark fight. I’ve never been squeamish about the UFC, but after I saw the ridiculously awkward way he landed…well, it certainly stuck with me for a while.
I think all these examples illustrate just how unpredictable MMA is and how things can happen in an eyeblink. Every martial artist learns how to take a proper fall, but with full-contact strikes and no protection, it’s not uncommon for someone to get knocked out on his feet. And from there, it’s all gravity and the whims of fate.
My personal favorite on the list is #7. That is Just. Messed. Up.
This was a great article, but I prefered The Top 8 ‘Oh Shit!’ Moments from Mixed Martial Arts from May.
I mean, I really sat here going “OH SHIT!” while reading and watching. I mean, just LOOK at that .gif of Bob Sapp piledriving Nogueria, and tell me you didn’t say “OHHHHH SHIT!” at least once.
Good times. Good times.
I saw this a few days ago. I laughed my ass off and had to call my wife in the room to show her Rashad’s caption.
Hendo’s caption was perfect. Point Break is my favorite action movie.
“Hey, no throwsies!” 
But how did Tim Boestch vs. David Heath not make the list? That is my #1 association when I hear “mma” and “ragdoll” together.
I’m amazed - who had this brilliant idea of mixed martial arts? I mean, what could possibly go wrong? :eek:
This is the first time I actually see videos like this. They all (at least the recieving half) look like candidates for the Darwin Award to me. Is this really considered a sport? Looks a lot less fake then wrestling. And what is up with this guys - on the first video one fighter gets knocked out, just lies on his back, and the other kneels down and keeps punching him in the face? I wonder if this is what rome felt a few years before the colalpse. 
But really, what am I missing here?
Yes, it’s a sport. It’s government-regulated sport and it actually has a very good track record for safety. There has only been 1 death ever in sanctioned MMA and it was at least partially due to a pre-existing condition. Boxing averages over 10 deaths per year. I’m pretty sure almost every major sport has far more deaths and serious injuries than MMA. This article discusses dozens of serious injuries and deaths in American football, from paralysis to death by heatstroke, to head and neck trauma fatalities.
You’re missing a lot, I’m sure. Especially if this is your very first exposure to the sport (that’s unfortunate; it probably would’ve turned me off, too.) A match can end without a punch ever being thrown. Combatants can “tap out” (end the fight) when they are essentialy check-mated. There are rounds (3 five-minute rounds in a standard bout), judges, etc. The referees are very aggressive about protecting the fighters’ safety. Once the ref steps in, the fight is over.
The reason the guy knelt down and kept swinging in the video you saw is because they keep going until the referee stops the fight, and I guess the ref was a split-second late in calling a halt that time. Under boxing (err, kickboxing) rules, that guy might’ve gotten 10 seconds to stand up and get pummeled again. In MMA, the fight ended.
Ah, that makes more sense then. It looked like some kind of modern gladiator fight to me, but I guess this is the most extreme part of the sport. Some of the moves out of the “oh shit” - compilation look deadly.
Wouldn’t have thought that there are so many death in boxing. Interesting.
Besides using the misnomer “Ultimate Fighting” over and over, this article is a decent primer.
Actually it’s interesting that you noticed that, because Kevin Randleman’s suplex was deadly. Had he performed it on a human, it would’ve been the first death in sanctioned MMA. Fortunately, Emelianenko is a cybernetic organism; living tissue over a metal endoskeleton.
Ah, his CPU is a neural net processor; a learning computer?
Yes. The more contact he has with humans, the more he learns.
Well Jeremy Bullock shouldn’t have trained at “Rick’s Tae-Kwon-Do and Auto Parts”, doesn’t exactly sound reputable to me, ya know?
(For my money, the funniest quote in the article BTW.)
This is just propaganda to make people think Fedor is bound by the laws of physics.
As seanbaby notes, it’s true that he arose from the ruins of Stalingrad, but he’s more like a wraith or a zombie. The only way to kill him is to shoot the brain or sever the spinal cord. Anything else is fruitless.
I’ve been trying to find a great video that I saw a few months back.
Before the fight starts, one fighter is showing off, working the crowd, doing hand stands and basically being a show boat. The other just stands there. When the bell rings the showboat does a flip across the ring and as he is coming up out of his flip, the other fighter clocks him and knocks him out. Does that sound familiar and can anyone give me a link?
I think this is what you’re talking about…
It’s from a movie but people often mistake the clip for being real.
You are right (on all accounts), that is the one I was thinking of - and I didn’t know it was from a movie. Thanks for the link and for setting me straight. (It is still a fun clip.)