The top of the calendar yr is upon us, which implies that UFC followers are beginning to ponder which actually was the very best knockout of 2024.
Fortunately, the promotion has put collectively a helpful package deal of what they think about to be the very best and most brutal KO’s of the yr; with six of the very best fighters competing at UFC 310 this weekend being requested to rank them 1-5.
UFC 310 fighters rank the 5 finest and most brutal knockouts from 2024
As per a video package deal launched by the UFC, the 5 best knockouts of the yr are from Dustin Poirier vs Benoit Saint-Denis, Max Holloway vs Justin Gaethje, Alex Pereira vs Jamahal Hill, Vinicius Oliveira vs Benardo Sopaj, and Ilia Topuria vs Max Holloway.
As a part of the advertising for the ultimate PPV of the yr, six athletes who’re set to compete at this weekend’s UFC 310 in Las Vegas have been requested to rank these KOs from 1-5.
Apparently, 5 of the six athletes had Max Holloway’s last-second end over Justin Gaethje as primary and Ilia Topuria’s end over Holloway as quantity two – the one dissenting occasion was Bryan Battle, who had Topuria ranked above ‘Blessed’.
Bryce Mitchell: “I’d say Max vs Gaethje is primary, quantity two is Ilia (vs Holloway), three is Poirier vs (Benoit Saint-Denis), then the flying knee – I imply that was in all probability the toughest knockout of all of them – then Pereira with the left [hook].”
As aptly famous by ‘Thug Nasty’, who faces Kron Gracie at UFC 310, “All of them are actually good [knockouts],” including “But when I needed to choose, that’s the order.”
Alexandre Pantoja: “All superb knockouts, all superb fighters however I believe Max Holloway vs Gaethje within the final second of the spherical in a five-round battle, I’ll give it to Max Holloway.”
The flyweight champion famous that his countryman’s flying knee vs Sopaj was “superb,” however acknowledged that the ‘best’ knockouts come towards the ‘best’ of foes.
“The knee was superb, however I believe we have to rank the fighters, who these guys have been preventing, and also you had Topuria knocking out Max Holloway for the primary time… Then you’ve gotten Pereira, stunning knockout, then Dustin Poirier after which the flying-knee – that’s my rating.”
Heavyweight Ciryl Gane went in reverse order, revealing that he’d really studied Ilia Topuria’s end of Holloway forward of his showdown with Alexander Volkov: “Topuria is an instance, like in the course of the camp we watched some video from Topuria as a result of he’s actually unbelievable, actually.
“Fifth, I’m going to say the left hook by Alex Pereira, fourth I’ll say the flying knee. Third, I’m going to say Dustin Poirier due to the storyline in the course of the battle, the comeback. Second place, I’ll say Topuria and the final 10 seconds of Gaethje vs Max Holloway was simply superb.”
As beforehand talked about, Bryan Battle was the one fighter to have Topuria above Holloway in his record, explaining how that was “based mostly off of who Max is” since ending Blessed is “such an unbelievable accomplishment.
“Quantity two could be Max vs Gaethje due to who each of them are and the scenario, the very fact it was the fifth spherical, they didn’t want to do this, however they did it anyhow – that was a magical second.
“Quantity three, Dustin Poirier vs Saint-Denis – each knockout Poirier has, there’s at all times a bit of additional flare, it’s not only a common knockout… Yeah that Oliveira KO, that was easy… Pereira vs Hill at quantity 5, I believe that’ll be slightly controversial, however Jamahal is my boy and that one was arduous to look at.”
Ian Machado Garry, who faces Shavkat Rakhmonov within the UFC 310 co-main occasion, was deadset on his first and second picks: “The perfect knockout from this record is Max Holloway knocking out Justin Gaethje – completely, 100% primary.
“Quantity two, you’ve obtained to know the way it’s not in regards to the KO, it’s in regards to the second, what it’s for, the platform that it’s on, so Topuria knocking out Holloway – knocking out Volk and Holloway back-to-back is insane.
“I’d then put Pereira knocking out Hill at No 3, Oliveira’s flying knee at quantity 4 and Poirier vs Saint-Denis Quantity 5… These are some unbelievable knockouts.”
Lastly, the part was rounded-out by Aljamain Sterling, who acknowledged that “the coldest one, for me, is Max Holloway vs Justin Gaethje.
“Quantity two, I’d say Topuria vs Holloway, quantity three I’d say the flying knee, Dustin Poirier vs Saint-Denis [number four] and Pereira vs Hill [number five].”
What do you consider these rankings, agree or disagree with the consensus opinion that Holloway’s last-second KO was extra spectacular than Topuria’s history-making end?
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