Reminds of Celebrity Boxing where Manute Bol beat up William "the Fridge" Perry.

BTW, Celebrity Boxing is the greatest show ever made.

I want to see a celebrity mountain bike boxing death match. I believe this should be accompanied by a photo of Scarlett Johansson.

That's freakin' Fedor of Russia. Crazy mofo, he just doesn't go down ever. I'll look for the .gif of him getting slammed on the neck.

I think the mountain biker couldn't see through his hair, he looks like "cousin it"

Yep that's Russia's Fedor Emelianenko, not sure who the other guy is or what event this was from. I always like the Eastern Europeans in this sport, with Igor Vovchanchyn not doing so great any more Fedor and Cro-Crop are my favorites.

Woops, Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic I meant.

Ahh, looks like that was PRIDE - Shockwave 2005: Fedor Emelianenko vs. Zuluzinho Zuluzinho, Submission (Punches), 26 seconds into Round 1.

Pride heavyweights are the finest in the world, could demolish a championship boxer (not due to pure ability, mind you, but due to having about a million weapons that a heavyweight champ would have no clue how to counter).

Im more of a crocop fan myself.

I'm a big mixed martial arts (MMA) fan, so I'm here to give you a little history lesson. Also, before I begin, I should point out how much I love lurkers, especially those that have recently come out out hiding; I welcome them like lost brothers and sisters.

Anyway, in Japan for the last, oh, million years or so, everyone has watched a huge concert called something like "The Red and White Show" (referring to Japan's flag) every New Year's Eve. Kind of like Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year's Eve but much more so.

The last several years, MMA groups have had dueling shows that have started to make major inroads on the concert's ratings. So now instead of 90%+ tuned into the concert, about 40% of the country is watching the concert and 30% is watching one of the two MMA shows.

The two groups that are dueling it out every year are Pride Fighting Championships (a pure MMA group) and K-1 (originally a kickboxing group but they now have some kickboxing matches and some MMA matches). This is a big, big deal for both of them, so they throw out a ton of top matches on free TV to try to win the ratings war. Also, they throw out some freak show matches to attract the general public that might be more interested in seeing some random celebrity or a gigantic fat guy get clobbered.

The clip with the guy kissing the other guy and getting KO'd that you had a while back is from the K-1 New Year's Eve show.

This clip is from the Pride New Year's Eve show. It features the Pride world heavyweight champion, Fedor Emelianenko, who is just an amazing fighter and has run through absolutely everyone. He has clearly established himself as the top heavyweight in the world and probably the top MMA heavyweight figher in history. But on this night he was involved in one of the freak-show fights.

His opponent is Zuluzinho Zuluzinho, Zulu for short, who is kind of a no-name (but has a famous father who used to fight in no-holds-barred events in Brazil). However, the guy is gigantic, both in height and in girth, and anytime you have a guy that huge you can also potentially have an upset.

But not this night, as Fedor demolished him in short order.

Hallo wrote:

Pride heavyweights are the finest in the world, could demolish a championship boxer (not due to pure ability, mind you, but due to having about a million weapons that a heavyweight champ would have no clue how to counter).

I'm not sure why that wouldn't count as ability. I think it's funny when people say a boxer in an MMA fight wouldn't have a fair shot because he's not used to those rules. MMA rules take no tools away from the boxer, and he can do all the punches that would be legal in boxing (and then some). When you have to call for rules that take things away from you opponent, sorry, but in my book you are admitting you're the lesser fighter.

Im more of a crocop fan myself.

I am a Cro-Cop fan as well, but he's started to look kind of washed up. Ever since he fought -- yes -- Fedor a while back, he has no spark anymore.

I don't follow your reasoning at all, Bob. Take one of your fighters and turn them into the ring with a trained boxer by boxing rules and he'll get killed. Why? Not because he's not as tough or fast or doesn't hit just as hard but because he has trained entirely differently. Years and years of a different training regimen and different rules simply doesn't make one fighter better or the other worse.

I suspect you know this but have a loyalty to this sport that's coloring your comments.