Total MMA Top 10: High Kicks
Posted by Marc Staehling on 2nd September 2008
As a 12-year old boy first discovering the UFC in 1994, I can remember thinking this was pretty much the coolest thing I’d ever seen. As a fan of Enter the Dragon (1973), and even moreso Bloodsport (1988), the early UFCs made those films a reality for me. Finally a tournament with “no rules” to decide what martial art was superior. With three out of four tournament wins, and countless submissions, Royce Gracie and his grappling-centric approach showed many what would work in an actual fight. As much as I yearned for them, there were no spectacular roundhouse kicks that I had seen from the likes of Jean Claude Van Damme and Loren Avedon in the movies. As the sport grew and evolved though, kicking techniques became much more commonplace, and currently kicks are some of the most dangerous techniques in a fighter’s striking arsenal, and have provided some of the most spectacular finishes in MMA history.
In this first installment of the Total MMA Top 10, I have compiled a video-list of the ten greatest high kick finishes in MMA history. My only rule is that no winning fighter can be listed more than once(sorry Mirko). Read the rest of this entry »
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