This monster, monster flying armbar went down in a February fight between Sofian Benchohra and Oliver Fontaine, but sometimes the difference between fights happening and fights having video is weird, and clips from weeks ago can show up fresh and destroy the sports part of the Internet. This has been going around a lot today, and Jesus, I should probably share it with you. HOLD ON TO YOUR BUTTS (arms)!

The expert analysis, from Cage Potato:

After Sofian Benchohra manages to snatch up one of Fontaine’s legs on an attempted body kick, you assume Fontaine is seconds away from an always demoralizing leg sweep. WRONG. Fontaine counters with a beautiful spinning, flying armbar — almost a somersault armbar, if you will — that Gina Carano couldn’t pull off with all of the stunt coordinators in the world in her corner. After a brief struggle, Fontaine secures the tap shortly thereafter. Good night, my anus.

(If you missed the anus joke, he’s not talking about his butthole.)

Robert Mennen is an Australian cyclist just trying to finish stage one of South Africa’s Cape Epic race without running over any antelope at almost 40 mph and almost killing himself. Key word here is “trying.” These races should, I don’t know, build a fence around the route or something if they’re going to bike through the wilderness and don’t want to accidentally slaughter any beasts between point A and point B. (via Reddit)

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It’s one of the worst parts of my personality, but I love seeing children at the zoo being assaulted by animals. Once I went on a field trip and stood next to a girl who got kicked in the head by a horse. It was my Lolita moment, I think. Anyway, the best part of this video is the follow-up story from The Los Angeles Times: “We had to ask for a Band-Aid.” (via The LA Times)

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I don’t know the specifics of what’s happening here, but here’s the gist: A gent on the Korean baseball team claims he was hit by a pitch, but everyone else in the game/stadium/world saw him lean out and elbow smash the ball. It’s a line drive foul, and one of the most hilariously dirty attempts at a play I’ve seen in a while. It’s like what happens in Derek Jeter’s mind every time the ball misses him by a foot and he collapses to the ground in agony.

Looks clean to me.

What I didn’t expect (because I’m stupid, and apparently just started blogging) is the response of YouTube commenters. I can’t read a lot of them, but the ones attempted in English are a wonderful mix of folky, racist and offensively general. Here are a few of my favorite examples from the last hour.

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I’ve never fought professionally, so this video has taught me a valuable lesson — if a guy has his body wrapped around my arm and is trying to break it, I shouldn’t stand up and shake my arm around to make him stop.

By way of Cage Potato comes this clip from ‘The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil’ of Rony “Jason” Mariano Bezerra giving Team Wanderlei its first win, a first-round submission victory over Anistavio “Gasparzinho” Medeiros de Figueiredo. When they’re done ultimately fighting they should have a contest to see who can have the most names.

Anyway, sh*t gets real at the 1:40 mark, and a few moments and horrible noises later, Gasparzinho walks away with a spaghetti arm. Now Jason gets to square off with Hugo “Wolverine” Viana in the featherweight semis, and if I know anything about Wolverine I know it’s gonna take a lot more than that to break his arm. Advice: dismember him and bury the parts on different continents.

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The Oklahoma City Thunder are doing their best to fend off the red hot San Antonio Spurs for the No. 1 seed in the West as the playoffs approach, and they defeated the Milwaukee Bucks 109-89 last night. But the highlight of the game wasn’t Russell Westbrook’s 26 points or even that the Bucks gave out Andrew Bogut statues in what I’m declaring the most pathetic giveaway of the season. Instead it was the 7 technical fouls, the ejection of Larry Sanders and a little spat between Serge Ibaka and Mike Dunleavy.

Ibaka and Dunleavy were separated immediately, and judging by pictures, that was a very great thing for Dunleavy, because HOLY CRAP LOOK AT IBAKA’S HAND!

Let this be a lesson: If Serge Ibaka ever tries to shake your hand, RUN.

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