Doo Ho Choi Knocks Out Mitsuhiro Ishida at DEEP 56
by Brent Brookhouse on Dec 18, 2011 3:00 PM EST
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PrintMitsuhiro Ishida spent a significant amount of time in his career as a very tough out in the lightweight division. He's one of only two men to score a victory over current Strikeforce lightweight champion Gilbert Melendez and has fought in Strikeforce, DREAM, PRIDE, Shooto and DEEP.
His career seems to be winding down now as, after being knocked out by Doo Ho Choi at DEEP 56 this weekend, he has dropped four of his previous six bouts with three of those losses being by a form of knockout. He dropped to featherweight at DREAM 15 and won 2 fights but now has lost two in a row including a split decision against Joachim Hansen.
Here's the video of the fight:
Choi is now 8-1 and riding a six fight win streak. Beating Ishida gives Choi a big name to add to an already successful 2011 which saw him score a huge flying knee KO over Nobuhiro Obiya. Dan Herbertson talked about that fight back in October on MMA Fighting:
In the second main event, relatively unknown Korean prospect Doo Ho Choi thoroughly trounced stiff opposition in former Deep lightweight champion Nobuhiro Obiya. Choi, who aside from an undercard bout in Sengoku has only featured in much smaller events, destroyed the legs and face of Obiya with laser guided strikes before finishing the fight with a flying knee only 15 seconds into the final round. Choi came into the bout as a late replacement for the injured Won Sik Park but turned in one of the most impressive performances of the year in Japan.
Choi is now pretty firmly established as a major name to keep an eye on at featherweight.
Let the talk of "get him in the UFC" begin.
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+1 for the redundant redundancy.
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by Unabomberman on Dec 18, 2011 3:14 PM EST up reply actions
That was a brutal knockout
and Doo Ho deserves a potential spot in the UFC, but wow did Ishida look like crap. This guy was an amazing wrestler even at LW (well, at the time), and here his double leg looked like Tim Sylvia’s.
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I was gonna say
those shots looked like they were in slow motion. Not the best showing by him at all. :/
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by LowkickGreed on Dec 18, 2011 4:07 PM EST up reply actions
Yup he was a entrenched top 10 LW for sometime he had a relentless grinding wrestling style, he was just great a putting together chain takedown attempts until he got that takedown. But over the last few years its been very noticeable his decline. The Gil Win New Years 07 at Yarennoka/Dynamite was the pinnacle/high point of his career. Sense then its been all downhill for the endless fighter. He is still a very solid fighter though and tuff test for anyone.
this guy is going to be UFC FW champ soon mark my words
just to give a lowdown for you guys this kid
is ONLY 20 YEARS OLD and is already thought as the number one prospect in Asia by both
Korean and Japanese scouts
He dominated and destroyed Obiya who both Kikuno and Gilbert could not finish on
1 WEEK NOTICE
Than Dominated Ishida and KOd him with an injured hip and was about to drop out of that fight
his striking is already one of the best at FW
can not wait to see him in the UFC
by essentialluckyman on Dec 18, 2011 3:11 PM EST reply actions
I ARE EXCITE.
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by Unabomberman on Dec 18, 2011 3:14 PM EST up reply actions
1:45 --is it allowed to grab the ropes like that?
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He has great instincts with the knee.
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by Patrick Tenney on Dec 18, 2011 4:03 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
2 simple knees
One BRUTAL display of a simple, effective technique. Knees are IMO the most exciting technique to watch land…like Condit/Kim or Freire/imada
by The KO Kid on Dec 18, 2011 4:07 PM EST via iPhone app reply actions
Definitely a wrestlers worst enemy. If someone knows how to throw those little knees when you fly down for a leg, it’s gonna be a rough night.
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by LowkickGreed on Dec 18, 2011 4:08 PM EST up reply actions
The fact you can’t land one if your opponent is grounded is a travesty in my personal opinion.
by discoandherpes on Dec 18, 2011 4:20 PM EST up reply actions
Totally agree
I’d be cool if you couldn’t knee someone who’s on their back, but someone shooting in or in top position should be prone to a knee to the brain
Please don’t even get me going on how much kness to the head on the ground would help make MMA that much more exciting. And not just from the knees causing damage or KO’s eather thats just a very small psrt of it. They would create so many more scrambles and position changes, Side control and especially North South would be so much more opened up for offense and attacking. Fighters would think twice at shooting and having there shot stuffed and winding up in a front head lock position. I could just go on and one at how much kness on the ground would benefit MMA for the better. I don’t ever see it but I hope that one day they are alloweed
damn wish someone would upload the obiya fight
DHC times a fake punch
and once obiya goes for a takedown
boom flying knee
by essentialluckyman on Dec 18, 2011 4:23 PM EST reply actions
Yeah, I saw it a while back, then looked for it today to put it in this post. but…nope, it’s not out there.
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by Brent Brookhouse on Dec 18, 2011 11:45 PM EST up reply actions
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