August 18, 2024 12:10 pm ET
Carlos Prates bought a $50,000 bonus for a sickening knockout of Li Jingliang at UFC 305 on Saturday.
But when the bonus-picking members of the UFC brass had seen a photograph of the knockout second by Colin Murty in Perth, Australia, earlier than their determination, they could have been inclined to offer Prates much more – or ship a bit of one thing Murty’s method.
Profession photojournalist Murty, who was capturing for Getty Photographs through Agence France-Presse, has an in depth resume stretching again greater than 40 years, however you received’t discover a number of MMA on his CV. That’s what is going to make those that respect good pictures – significantly good sports activities pictures – love this shot much more.
(And in case you’re tempted to say, “Oh, he in all probability simply has a extremely good digital camera,” then please go away. He does. After all he does. And he additionally has the form of eye and instincts that may result in an insane picture like this. Many of the remainder of us don’t, regardless of how a lot our iPhones mislead us #SupportRealPhotographers.)
China’s Li Jingliang (in purple) is knocked out by Brazil’s Carlos Prates at UFC 305 in Perth on August 18, 2024. (Picture by COLIN MURTY / AFP) / — IMAGE RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE – STRICTLY NO COMMERCIAL USE — (Picture by COLIN MURTY/AFP through Getty Photographs) Prates opened up the pay-per-view major card with a shocking walk-off knockout of Jingliang late within the second spherical. It was the primary time “The Leech” had been knocked out in a profession relationship again 17 years.
See the face-melting second Prates shut Jingliang’s lights out under.
China’s Li Jingliang (in purple) is knocked out by Brazil’s Carlos Prates of their males’s welterweight division occasion of the Final Combating Championship (UFC) 305 on the Perth Area in Perth on August 18, 2024. (Picture by COLIN MURTY / AFP) / — IMAGE RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE – STRICTLY NO COMMERCIAL USE — (Picture by COLIN MURTY/AFP through Getty Photographs)
Li Jingliang (in purple) is knocked out by Brazil’s Carlos Prates at UFC 305 in Perth on August 18, 2024. (Picture by COLIN MURTY / AFP) / — IMAGE RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE – STRICTLY NO COMMERCIAL USE — (Picture by COLIN MURTY/AFP through Getty Photographs)
Absurd, is it not?
Prates’ win was his tenth straight – the previous 9 of which have been by knockout, together with his first three within the UFC.
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