Video: Holly Holm Brutally Knocked Out by Anne Sophie Mathis
by Brent Brookhouse on Dec 4, 2011 8:01 PM EST
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PrintTop female boxer and 2-0 mixed martial artist Holly Holm was knocked out in brutal fashion this past weekend. Recently Holm picked up some buzz in MMA circles for a video circulating of her sparring with UFC champ Jon Jones. Jones was preparing for his upcoming UFC 140 light heavyweight title defense with Lyoto Machida while Holm was getting ready for this bout with Anne Sophie Mathis.
Mathis ended up pinning Holm against the ropes and repeatedly tagging her, leaving her bent backward, hanging over the ropes awkwardly.
The video:
While Holm's boxing future is far from dead, it'll be interesting if this spurs her into a bigger move toward MMA. She has scored two TKO wins in her career (both this year) and her most recent win was a body kick TKO over former Strikeforce title challenger Jan Finney.
She's one of the female combat athletes to keep an eye on next year, but it's clear that Mathis is as well.
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Ouch.
Beautiful & brutal KO.
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by Scott C. Broussard on Dec 4, 2011 8:03 PM EST reply actions
ow that is a rough way to go down...
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Woah. That was just plain nasty.
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Damn. She went full retard
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by dgonz on Dec 4, 2011 8:09 PM EST reply actions 2 recs
"She fought..."
Don’t give interviews after having your eggs scrambled like that, go to a hospital.
"Now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb."
by menckenstein on Dec 5, 2011 10:14 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I laughed.
Then felt bad. Then posted this.
by cager on Dec 4, 2011 8:15 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs
I laughed.
Then felt bad. Then read your post. Then laughed again. Then rec’d your post.
I walk across the dead train yard, remembering who we are.
I'd cry if I was handled lik ethat too infront of a bunch of strangers.
But it was beautiful…
She looks kinda like Amy Adams…
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She looks nothing like amy adams
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by Hendo_One-Shot on Dec 4, 2011 9:25 PM EST up reply actions
Agreed.
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by T.P. Grant on Dec 4, 2011 10:47 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs
Woof
Mathis’s technique looked miserable. Decent power though.
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Holm looked pretty shaky
looks like she just got up and Mathis looked like she was showboating a little.
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Mathis was throwin her arms up like Diaz.
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by ElliotMatheny on Dec 4, 2011 8:19 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I was about to post the same thing. Is Anne Sophie Mathis repping the 209?
by discoandherpes on Dec 5, 2011 5:54 AM EST up reply actions
i was going to post that she trained with Machida.
alas, i cannot be a troll…
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by Victor Rodriguez on Dec 5, 2011 3:57 PM EST up reply actions
She uh…had beaten the shit out of Holm for a bit by that point.
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by Brent Brookhouse on Dec 4, 2011 8:24 PM EST up reply actions
So this must mean Jon Jones striking is overrated?
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sadly there will be someone that makes this argument
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Did you see the way that she was tagging him? He can’t even hang with a second rate boxer. Didn’t phase her even though has a glass chin either.
Here's the longer interview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMo-L-bGiDg
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It’s kinda amazing how she grills herself. She’s like “I fucked up, it’s all my fault, no excuses, my bad.”
A lesson in humility for a bunch of folk, methinks.
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She's definitely a class act
I’m french so I’m happy for Mathis but it’s always sad seeing a fighter like this, she seems really devastated.
by Sweet Scientist on Dec 4, 2011 8:39 PM EST up reply actions
Don't watch the highlight of the fight, then. You'll get even sadder.
Mathis hits like a mack truck and the ref should’ve stopped it way, way before.
Absolutely atrocious officiating.
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Just saw it. That's fucking criminal reffing.
She was out of it since that knockdown in the sixth (and the ref didn’t even gave her a count). That moment where she was caught in the ropes was awful too.
by Sweet Scientist on Dec 4, 2011 9:20 PM EST up reply actions
I'll have to go and watch me some Mathis, but from that clip it looked like she boxes Stockton style...
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Damn.
That sucks. Although I’d love to see her vs. Cyborg.
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I don’t have a link to the fight, the ref should be banned though and her cornerman are morons. That fight should have been stopped in the 6th.
She’s a tough girl, but she took a beatdown, it should never have come to her getting put through the ropes like that. Ridicolous.
yeeeah. I’ve seen a longer highlight but it wasn’t a “legal” video and she was getting trucked.
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by Brent Brookhouse on Dec 4, 2011 8:47 PM EST up reply actions
She was literaly kept upright being tied by the ropes at one point, and the dipshit ref sent her to get KTFO'd instead of stopping the fight.
Her corner are fucking morons too.
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At what point is it ok to throw your own t-shirt into the ring as a spectator?
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Damn
Was that ref waiting for a coroner’s report before stopping the fight?
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Brutal KO was brutal
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That just looked like it hurt. She’s to pretty to be getting an ass whooping like that…j/k
by Inspectorxr5 on Dec 5, 2011 1:25 AM EST via mobile reply actions
Yes I agree KJ. Bones striking is overrated. This women’s boxing match proves it. The Machida Era returns on Saturday.
by Inspectorxr5 on Dec 5, 2011 1:26 AM EST via mobile reply actions
Dammm
She got knocked the fugg out
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by IcyAbyss on Dec 5, 2011 3:14 AM EST via mobile reply actions 1 recs
If her boxing and MMA careers don't work out she can always have sex with Steve Soderbergh, get knocked up, have a secret abortion and star in his next crap movie
"Now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb."
So from the comment it sounds like Holm was pretty much getting worked the whole fight. It was pretty obviously from that clip she was out on her feet, that should have been at least at least a standing count.
Her trainers are shit, a KO like that can destroy a fighter’s mental game for good. Should have thrown the towel and saved their fighter. At the very least, if she fights again, she’s going to be highly tentative which could be her career becoming undone.
On the flip side, that fear of getting KO’d could make go work on her ground game and drop boxing all together.
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