Back in October, we shared with you a clip of an MMA fighter deciding he was an invincible character from Bloodsport, making the COME AT ME BRO gesture to allow his opponent a bunch of free shots and getting knocked out like a goon. Since then the clip has gotten over two million views, all of them accompanied by a simple, easy-to-understand lesson: if you’re fighting for a living, don’t taunt the guy you’re fighting about how he can’t knock you out. He will do it immediately.

I guess Dan Lewis did not see that video.

He got knocked out in the first round by Josh Coleman during the Ultimate River Throwdown at Win-River Casino in Redding, CA, and why? Because he started smacking his own cheeks. You see, he’d gotten punched once and it didn’t knock him out, so he morphed into CHONG LI and NO PUNCHES COULD HURT HIM. Except, uh, the next punch, which knocks him on his ass. Whoops!

The funny thing to me about this clip is the Josh Coleman MacGuffin. You click on an “unexpected knockout” video featuring a guy with an hilariously oversized Jay Leno chin and he’s NOT the one getting knocked out? How do you miss this guy’s chin, seriously? I could throw a punch at him from Texas and probably land it.

[h/t to Cage Potato]

I love sports improbabilities.

Double knockouts don’t happen very often in mixed martial arts. It just doesn’t make sense. How are two guys going to hit each other with knockout blows at the exact point of intersection necessary to continue forward with deadly force, but still eat a strike and collapse backwards into beautiful failure symmetry? It’s hard enough to get it to happen once. A Polish DKO (I’m calling it that, I don’t care if it’s wrong) happened back in October, and I thought “welp, that’s something I’m not gonna see again for a while.” However, with only 21 days gone by in March, the month has seen two straight-up double knockouts and a third, pictured above, that came so, so close.

Here are all three, in their glory, with a double hat-tip to Cage Potato.

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Check out our third “100 Knockouts” special, featuring the sport’s wildest finishes from across the globe!

I will, thank you!

Inside the Cage’s third collection of 100 knockouts from basically everywhere they could find or imagine in the world of MMA is their best yet. The knockouts are great, sure, but my favorite part of the clip is how obscure and ridiculous some of the fighting leagues get. Smoker Fight! Short Fuse Promtions! Abu Dhabi Warriors! Just great stuff all around. Maybe the next 100 will feature a company so obscure Garfield couldn’t even mail Nermal to them.

Check out the video below, and enjoy almost 20 minutes of guys getting obliterated.

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I don’t like to brag, friends, but I have never been kicked in the head. I’ve been punched and slapped, but never has someone’s foot made contact with my face as an act of aggression or competition, and as long as I’m alive I plan to keep it that way. However, because this is America, some people choose to let feet hit their faces and I am fine with that, because I don’t judge. Especially when that foot-to-face contact makes me shout, “HOLY SH*T YOUR FACE, BRO!”

This week’s edition of “Meet the Foot” is brought to us by the South Texas Fighting Championship’s Bad Blood MMA event that took place last Friday in McAllen, Texas. The match in question was between Vaughn Govia and Miguel “Mikey” Saenz in a contest of lightweights that lasted roughly 5 seconds, as Govia simply knocked Saenz the f*ck out with a vicious kick. Video after the jump, but if you work for Steve Hickey, make sure you look over your shoulder so you’re not fired for watching child pornography.

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For … whatever reason you’d like, here’s UFC legend Chuck Liddell knocking out a cardboard cut-out of Dwight Howard. Bonus: Carmelo Anthony totally flops. (via Bob’s Blitz)

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I don’t know how far into 2012 we’re allowed to shared Best Whatevers Of 2012, but here are year’s best MMA and UFC knockouts. It barely counts as UFC, but I would’ve included a still of Tank Abbott’s book, because that kicked my ass harder than anything in MMA. (via Cage Potato)

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