Year End Awards: 2009's Best KO's In MMA
by Kelvin Hunt on Dec 23, 2009 5:00 PM EST
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PrintYou may recall that we did the top ten of the best KO's of 2009 at the halfway point in June of this year. We've endured another 6 months of epic battles, title fights, and more. Here's the list from June:
Lyoto Machida vs. Rashad Evans, UFC 98 Jose Aldo vs. Cub Swanson, WEC 41 Matt Hamill vs. Mark Munoz, UFC 96 Brett Rogers vs. Andrei Arlovski, Strikeforce: Lawler vs. Shields Fedor Emelianenko vs. Andrei Arlovski, Affliction 2 Vitor Belfort vs. Matt Lindland, Affliction 2 Yahir Reyes vs. Estevan Payan, Bellator 6 Ben Henderson vs. Shane Roller, WEC 40 Paulo Thiago vs. Josh Koscheck, UFC 95 Dan Hardy vs. Rory Markham, UFC 95
I have feeling this list will not be the same, so check for the new list after the jump plus a bonus video!
There were some bomb ass knockouts this year, and I wish I give list them all. However, I doubt you really want to read all of that. So here's my top ten(plus a few extra), and as always feel free to list your own or critique mine.
- Lyoto Machida vs. Rashad Evans, UFC 98
- Jose Aldo vs. Cub Swanson, WEC 41
- Matt Hamill vs. Mark Munoz, UFC 96
- Fedor Emelianenko vs. Andrei Arlovski, Afflcition
- Fedor Emelianeko vs. Brett Rogers, Strikeforce
- Vitor Belfort vs. Matt Lindland, Strikeforce
- Anderson Silva vs. Forrest Griffin, UFC 101
- Antonio Rogerio Nogueira vs. Luiz Cane, UFC 106
- Dan Henderson vs. Michael Bisping, UFC 100
- Nate Marquardt vs. Demian Maia, UFC 102
- Anthony Johnson vs. Yoshiyuki Yoshida, UFC 104
- Roy Nelson vs. Brenden Schaub, TUF 10 Finale
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Dan Hornbuckle’s KO of Akihiro Gono was the best KO of the year. I’d put Fedor/Arlovski a close 2nd.
Yeah
that was sick. But I like marquart’s ko a little better but hornbuckle’s should be up their
by Erich Vowell on Dec 23, 2009 7:59 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
lol
Like I said…there were just too many to name them all…good ones mentioned though.
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From that list i’d have to go with Belfort/Lindland, but then again i’m a sucker for complete brutality. You could literally see Lindland’s lifespan shortening during that horror show.
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