Missed Fists: Fighter electrocuted in freak accident at Weed Boxing occasion

Welcome to the newest version of Missed Fists the place we shine a lightweight on fights from throughout the globe which will have been neglected in these hectic occasions the place it looks as if there’s an MMA present each different day.

No room for preamble this week, only a query: What are we doing???

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A fight sports activities occasion on a hoop surrounded by water with loads of electronics round? What might go fallacious?

The whole lot, apparently?

At a Weed Boxing (???) occasion in Phuket, Thailand, former ONE FC fighter Ivan Parshikov (a good 3-2 within the ONE ring) celebrated a victory by climbing the nook put up. Completely regular factor to do.

Nonetheless, to regular himself, he grabbed on to a lighting fixture and was instantly zapped. Watch him go limp within the clip above after which plummet to the mat. Mega yikes!

Right here’s one other description of the incident (translation through Twitter):

It’s virtually like common boxing, however earlier than the battle, you need to take a puff, and the ring is ready up by a pool, so you’ll be able to take a dip after the bout.

Look, I’m one of many first folks that may inform you fight sports activities have turn out to be form of stagnant and for the artwork type to maneuver ahead we have to strive new issues, however we might be good about it, too! To what finish, I ask you, Weed Boxing? To what finish?

Past being shocked into unconsciousness for what seemed to be an entire second, Parshikov additionally took a scary fall onto the apron. He’s very, very, very fortunate he didn’t injure his head or neck.

Right here’s one other angle.

Happily, Parshikov seems to be high-quality, as he later posted (translation through Instagram), “The concept of diving from the ring into the pool was not essentially the most profitable one.”

More true phrases had been by no means spoken, my pal.

In different information, apparently flying knees at the moment are the order of the day.

Juan Archuleta vs. Dennis Linton

I doubt anybody missed former Bellator and RIZIN champion Juan Archuleta’s first win in his return to the regional scene, however in case you probably did…

Straight-up KO of the 12 months candidate proper there and one of many cleanest flying knee finishes you’ll ever see.

LOOK AT IT.

Archuleta has been at this sport a very long time, and he provides one other belt to his assortment by profitable the Borroka Promotions bantamweight title. At 37 with 37 professional bouts below his belt, he simply picked up the perfect knockout of his profession.

Adriano Castro vs. Jose Tavera Rocha

Adriano Castro’s ending effort at 300 Sparta 40 in Lima, Peru, can’t fairly match Archuleta’s, but it surely was undoubtedly nasty.

That was extra of an execution-style flying knee. Castro had Jose Tavera Rocha on the proverbial ropes and possibly might have gone for a flurry of punches within the hopes that the referee stepped in. However nope, he sealed the deal and left little doubt that this battle was over.

Omar Arteaga vs. Pablo Sepulveda

I really feel like Omar Arteaga reversed the method at Samurai Combat Home 22 in Buenos Aires.

Somewhat than use his punches to arrange a flying knee, he used the flying knee to arrange a ending sequence of punches. And you realize what? Finish consequence was the identical,

Daniel Kolasinski vs. Thomas Glot

From Ares FC 32 in Brest, France:

Did you blink? When you did, you most likely missed Daniel Kolasinki’s one-shot KO of Thomas Glot. Run that one again.

Beautiful counter punch. Hair flopping. All motor expertise all of a sudden disappearing. This was primarily the traditional samurai duel aftermath the place the dropping fighter doesn’t notice they’ve misplaced till they see the slash throughout their physique.

Monique Dodson vs. Leilani Hodgens
David Puente vs. Ayden Bell
Victor Valenzuela vs. Bruce Whitehead

When you haven’t heard of Monique Dodson, you’ve got now and also you’ll undoubtedly hear extra quickly.

The 28-year-old made her professional debut at Fury FC 105 and wanted simply 65 seconds to drop Leilani Hodgens. You don’t see a whole lot of one-punch KOs within the strawweight division, with solely Jessica Andrade coming to thoughts. That’s a lofty comparability for Dodson, but when she retains delivering the products, you’ll see her get that Contender Sequence name within the subsequent couple of years.

Newbie heavyweight David Puente seemed like he was simply firing blind right here…

…and it labored!

The very best punch is the one your opponent doesn’t see coming and it doesn’t get extra misleading than throwing a punch with no expectation of the place it should land.

That most likely applies to this wild alternate between Victor Valenzuela and Bruce Whitehead, too.

And look, one other knee!

Fury FC 105 is out there for replay on UFC Fight Pass, with the preliminary portion of the cardboard on YouTube.

Shane Collins vs. Kody Vogels
Bia Mesquita vs. Sierra Dinwoodie

We’d be remiss if we didn’t shout out a few newly topped champions, Shane Collins and Bia Mesquita.

Collins, 25, used some stunning physique work to place Kody Vogels away to enhance to 4-0 and turn out to be the A1 Fight featherweight champion.

At LFA 211 in Salamanca, N.Y., Bia Mesquita claimed a bantamweight belt with a one-sided trucking of Sierra Dinwoodie.

At 34, Mesquita is somewhat additional alongside than Collins, however considering her enormous success in the world of Brazilian jiu-jitsu, she’s seemingly a lot nearer to a UFC contract. In any case, Kayla Harrison wants challengers quickly.

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