In honor of the gnarly black eye I received last night in training, here’s a killer highlight reel of Alistair Overeem dishing out punishment and messin’ fools’ faces up.
I wonder if any of these dudes have to explain their facial carnage at work the next day the way I do.
Happy Halloween, Trashcan Monster! This year I think I’m going to dress up like the black kid and just instantly react to any movement around me with a punch in the face. Wife reaches for tv remote: boom, facepunch. Co-worker pushes a button on the elevator: ka-powey. Bird flys a little too close: unhesitating Shoryuken to the beak.
Is that allowed? Do I lean on this old standby a little too much whenever I post something about Russia?
Perhaps I do. I will play this one straight: In Soviet Russia AHHHH MURDER-BUS! RUNNNN!
…in the immediate vicinity of Tony Jaa or anyone possessing his amazing backkicking abilities.
I can’t stop watching this clip. It comes from a Candid Camera type show in Brussels, so it should be no surprise that Jean Claude Van Dam also thinks it rocks.
"YEAAAA!"
Here we see Anderson Silva back-peddling and throwing casual-looking shots from the waist. Even if I was fighting a handicapped 4 year-old girl, I don’t think I could make it look this easy and Anderson is not fighting a toddler here. He is fighting a skillful, well-conditioned, athletic monster of an opponent (I’m pretty sure Forrest could beat me up using only his ears, but — to be fair — his ears are probably a little bigger than me), and he’s making it look so easy.
He’s just scary good. Where did he come from? What the heck is he doing different from everyone else that just puts him on a different level?
Seriously Wushu guys, be careful with those pokey things.
And ladies, be careful with those…um…light? sabers? It’s all too easy to lose a limb with those things.
cheerio! pip pip!
Bisping didn’t make it to the post-fight press conference, but one of his trainers had this to say of him:
‘E’s passed on! This fighter is no more! He has ceased to be! ‘E’s expired and gone to meet ‘is maker! ‘E’s a stiff! Bereft of life, ‘e rests in peace! If you hadn’t nailed ‘im to the mat ‘e’d be pushing up the daisies! ‘Is metabolic processes are now ‘istory! ‘E’s off the twig! ‘E’s kicked the bucket, ‘e’s shuffled off ‘is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin’ choir invisibile!! THIS IS AN EX-FIGHTER!”
I have always loved this gif of Ali standing right in front of his opponent with his hands down at his waist, making it look so easy to slip this guy’s best shots. It’s like he’s learned to manipulate the freaking Matrix or something.
I’ve heard other people say that this isn’t really that impressive since he stays out of range for four of the five punches, but I’d always dismissed their criticism as typical online contrarianism/know-it-all-ism (plus, I find Ali’s swagger to be just as impressive as his skill here). But then someone directed me to an incredible highlight of Pernall “Sweet Pea” Whitaker that really got my attention. Check it out — trying to punch this guy must be like trying to punch a ghost:
I’ve been seeing this guy around quite a bit, bisecting tiny mushrooms and flying baseballs and all kinds of crazy stuff, but this, I think, is his most impressive feat: cutting a 6mm airsoft pellet in half, mid-flight. Is this real life? As one YouTube commentator noted, even if this took him a hundred takes to film it’s still crazy impressive.
How it goes down in real life:
