my seven favourite all-time MMA kicks
by George75 on Jan 23, 2012 10:50 AM EST
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Just thinking the other day, I compiled a list of my 7 favourite MMA kicks
1. Anthony Pettis vs Ben Henderson 'showtime' kick
2. Edson Barboza vs Terry Etim wheel kick
3. Lyoto Machida vs Randy Couture jumping front kick
4. Anderson Silva vs. Vitor Belfort front kick
5. Mirko Crocop vs Igor Vovchanchyn head kick
6. Gabriel Gonzaga vs. Mirko Crocop head kick
7. Alistair Overeem vs. Brock Lesnar liver kick
Have I forgotten any?
[EDIT: wanted to include a Bas Rutten liver kick, but too many to choose from]
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nice list
Honorable mention:
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by Elitex10x on Jan 23, 2012 11:06 AM EST reply actions 2 recs
I liked Salmon's kick better
No, your dumb
by RashadsLeftNipple on Jan 24, 2012 10:43 AM EST up reply actions 5 recs
I’m a fan of Franklin’s liver kick on Hamill:
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by Stanlee on Jan 23, 2012 11:34 AM EST reply actions 4 recs
So perfect.
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Whitemare IIRC
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Mariusz Zaromskis
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by Horselover Fat on Jan 23, 2012 7:00 PM EST up reply actions
It's actually Marcus Aurelio...
The guy also has a flying head kick KO that is ridiculous. The Zaromskis one you are thinking of is here,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvXBq_oREd0
Don't be scared Gomi...
by ThatsHowIRoll on Jan 23, 2012 11:28 PM EST up reply actions
Well, here’s the thing. 19Miles posted two gifs, and George75 then replied to the first one asking “who is this?”. The first gif is indeed Zaromskis, same as the youtube video you posted now, so that’s what I told him
"I want to tell me what you see, let's go ahead and see by the fight, what you saw, in the ring."
by Horselover Fat on Jan 24, 2012 10:23 AM EST up reply actions
For clarififaction...
Mariusz “Whitemare” Zaromskis is the guy in the first .gif doing the front flip/front handspring kick.
Marcus “Lelo” Aurelio (not to be confused with Marcus “Maximus” Aurelio who choked out Gomi) is the guy doing the copoeira double wheel kick in the second .gif. He also unleashed a ridiculous flying switch kick KO a couple months ago which can be seen here Aurelio Flying Switch Kick KO
The other clip that’s been going around recently of a capoeira wheel kick KO is of Cairo Rocha from December. Rocha wheel kick KO 
Forgive me if any of those links don’t work; I’m used to BBcode and don’t post here much.
Ah, cool. Thanks for clarifying! I thought it sounded a little strange that the Aurelio I know (BJJ guy) would be knocking out guys with crazy kicks.
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by Horselover Fat on Jan 24, 2012 1:45 PM EST up reply actions
Sorry mate!
The Zaromskis one didn’t show for me so went and made a fool of myself didn’t I?
Don't be scared Gomi...
by ThatsHowIRoll on Jan 24, 2012 5:21 PM EST up reply actions
That’s okay, no problem!
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by Horselover Fat on Feb 19, 2012 12:54 PM EST up reply actions
Corey Hills fight ending kick on Dale Hart
And
Harold Howards kick vs. Steve Jennum
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by Fedorable on Jan 24, 2012 6:33 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
To this day...
that Corey Hill kick looks so fake. My brain refuses to accept it as Somethng That Actually Happened.
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by brad23 on Jan 23, 2012 4:09 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Big fan of the low kicks
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by ElliotMatheny on Jan 23, 2012 4:09 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
rec'd for alves :)
Don't be scared Gomi...
by ThatsHowIRoll on Jan 23, 2012 11:48 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah, his low kicks are beautiful.
"God loves violence... Why else would there be so much of it? It's in us. It's what we are. We wage war, we burn sacrifices, and pillage and plunder and tear at the flesh of our brothers. And why? Because God gave us violence to wage in his honor... There's no moral order at all. There's just this: can my violence conquer yours?"
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by ElliotMatheny on Jan 27, 2012 9:26 AM EST up reply actions
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by skeebop on Jan 23, 2012 4:50 PM EST reply actions 2 recs
Other notables not yet mentioned...
In chronological order, here’s a bunch for your consideration that haven’t been mentioned yet:
-Patrick Smith on Rudyard Moncayo – UFC 6, 1995 – “Missile Kick” – at the time, this defied explanation
-Marco Ruas on Paul Varelans – UFC 7, 1995 – Repeated leg kicks. Maybe the best leg kick destruction in early modern MMA. A few of these are just ridiculous.
-Maurice Smith on Marcus “Conan” Silveira – EF 3, 1996 – Head kick KO. Likely the first high profile head kick KO in modern MMA.
-Pete Williams on Mark Coleman – UFC 17, 1998 – Head kick KO. For many, this may have been the first head kick KO they ever saw in MMA, and a Lions Den guy on a Hammer House former UFC HW champion made this huge. Perpetual highlight fodder. Plus shoes.
-Kazushi Sakuraba on Vitor Belfort – Pride 5, 1999 – Spinning back kick to body. This is the shot that made Vitor shamble across ring and casually lay down.
-Pedro Rizzo on Randy Couture – UFC 31, 2001 – Repeated leg kicks. Rizzo does Ruas proud by just murdering Couture’s legs, in a highly contentious decision loss. There’s a single one around round 2 or 3 that is absolutely glorious.
-Chuck Liddell on Renato “Babalu” Sobral – UFC 40, 2002 – Head kick KO. Babalu ducks directly into eating a Chuck’s shin, on one of the highest profile UFC up to that date.
-Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic on Heath Herring – Pride 26, 2003 – Body kick. Crocop kicks Herring so hard that on the still shot, it looks like Mirko’s leg is buried in Heath’s torso.
-Yves Edwards on Josh Thomson – UFC 49, 2004 – Jumping headkick KO. Edwards chases Thomson across the cage, and as Josh attempts a spinning backfist on the fly, Yves hits one of the great head kick KOs of all time.
-Tim Sylvia on Tra Telligman – UFC 54, 2005 – Head kick KO. Head kick KO from a 6’8" heavyweight that rarely throws kicks. Shocking.
-Georges St. Pierre on Matt Hughes (II) – UFC 65, 2006 – Leg kick sweep under check. An already dazed Hughes checks a low kick from GSP, so GSP throws the kick again, this time right under/through the check, and through the back plant foot. Hughes drops. You see it in Muay Thai on the regular, but not something you see if a ton of MMA fights circa 2007.
-Anthony Njokuani on Chris Horodecki – WEC 45, 2009 – Head kick KO. Horodecki, against his better judgement, runs across the ring with his back half turned. Njokuani relives the Edwards vs Thomson moment.
There’s a bunch of stuff that’s been mentioned already that is obviously notable, especially Rocha and Zaromskis’ recent acrobatics, Siver’s reel of multiple spinning back kicks, etc. There’s also some stuff here that’s not even been mentioned yet, like Brian Ebersole’s half cartwheel kick (what’s the best one he’s landed?), everything Anthony Pettis did in the Shane Roller fight (before the Henderson fight made us forget that), and a bunch of Brazilian kicks and Axe kicks from a number of guys.
Thanks for the good post, the 7 you hit on are all solid.
by brainuse on Jan 23, 2012 5:50 PM EST reply actions 4 recs
There’s also some stuff here that’s not even been mentioned yet, like Brian Ebersole’s half cartwheel kick (what’s the best one he’s landed?)
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by wonderfulspam on Jan 23, 2012 6:07 PM EST up reply actions
Thank you sir
That was exactly the one I was trying to remember. And that was even a full on cartwheel, not the half-cartwheel-capoeira-looking one he throws out sometimes.
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Would you like Freys with that?
by iiowyn on Jan 24, 2012 1:47 PM EST up reply actions 3 recs
this one is great
That’s what he gets for running
No, your dumb
by RashadsLeftNipple on Jan 24, 2012 2:42 PM EST up reply actions
YUS
I came here specifically to post this.
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running away in a professional fight?!?! So glad this happened!
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I'm guessing you haven't seen this then
Sometimes, instead of getting knocked out, you get a W.
WOW!
is that Wandy and Jacob Christopher Ortiz?
Was that the last exchange of the fight?
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Correct, Tito Ortiz vs Wanderlei Silva from UFC 25 in 2000
That clip is from about 2 minutes into the 3rd round, in what was a 25 minute 5 round fight.
Ortiz dropped Silva badly with a punch in round 2. But in round 3, Silva clips Ortiz and Ortiz reacts as you see above, which I believe some people at the time referred to as the “Run for Life.” Other than that, the majority of the fight was Ortiz getting takedowns and staying in top control for a less than exciting victory.
A few more visual aids to go with these
Pat Smith on Rudyard Moncayo
Ruas on Varelans
Mo Smith on Conan
Pete Williams on Coleman
Sakuraba on Belfort
Sukuraba on Belfort Clip – colorful video title is not mine
He lands like 3 or 4 in this clip, but jump to 1:00 for the moneymaker.
LIddell on Sobral (I)
Sylvia on Telligman
Highlight from MMACore
As I recall...
this was in overtime (no draws in early UFC). Coleman was in uber-zombie mode, barely had enough energy to throw a punch.
In other words, this was 32 year old Mark Coleman fighting like a 45 year old Mark-Coleman after 3 rounds.
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Your recollection is mostly correct...
You’re right, it was just into the start of a 3 minute overtime, after 12 minutes of regulation, and Coleman was gassed as hell. He never even really moved out of his corner when the overtime started.
There were, however, judges decisions if it went the full length, which was in part caused by the early draw debacles of Shamrock vs Gracie at UFC 5, and Shamrock vs Taktarov at UFC 7.
UFC 17 is a weird one.
At the time, most of the fights on that card were 12 minute regulation, 3 minute overtime period, and then the judges would decide it if it went 15. Henderson beat Goes and Newton both by 15 minute decisions that night. However, the Liddell vs Hernandez fight went to a decision after 12 minutes with no overtime (probably because it was a prelim) and the Frank Shamrock v Jeremy Horn fight, which didn’t air on the PPV at the time, was scheduled for 15 minutes regulation and 2 × 3 minute overtimes if necessary (probably because if was a non-tourney fight for a belt.).
Going back through the early UFCs and trying to figure out the exact rule-set they were on at the time is a trip.
Best part: The dude in the corner.
He’s like “Jesus, I’m standing here in white spandex, roided to the fucking gills, on so many painkillers I don’t even know my name, and even I know this is fucked up.”
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by Paulo Filho's Psychiatrist on Jan 24, 2012 11:07 AM EST up reply actions
Actually it has
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKu-urmeJl8
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by Horselover Fat on Jan 23, 2012 7:02 PM EST up reply actions
That was my go-to move with Hwoarang in Tekken.
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by Zachary Kater on Jan 24, 2012 9:03 AM EST up reply actions
Not MMA, but
Remy Bonjasky’s KO of Vernon White deserves a mention.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwsylkp5afI#t=06m47s
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Undoubtedly awesome, but if you open up the door to pure kickboxing footage, you’re going to get a flood of Peter Grahm Rolling Thunders, Hug getting a spinning back kick TKO WITH A KICK TO THE THIGH and ax kicking everything in sight, Badir Hari doing all types of ridiculous stuff including giving and receiving spinning back kicks with Stephen Leko, and a hundred Thai guys throwing lead foot head kicks faster than I can even see.
Keeping it straight MMA is a lot more interesting at this point, because first, most of these guys are not professional kickboxers, and second, these shots are way harder to land in an MMA environment, and third, until not that long ago, much of this stuff was thought to be impossible under full fight rules.
The Hug TKO was more of a kick right to the knee.
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by ElliotMatheny on Jan 27, 2012 9:30 AM EST up reply actions
Not to be contrary, and it obviously doesn't matter, but
Hug’s heel hits Bernardo in the thigh, a few inches above his knee. It may have locked out Bernardo’s knee and hyper-extended it, as he had all his weight planted on that leg, but Hug does appear to hit him in the meat of the thigh.
I just don’t really like opening the door to kickboxing highlights in a thread like this, because kickboxing is a completely different world. Can I get a Bill Wallace hook kick amen from the congregation?
wtf @ Mazzagatti strolling calmly the whole time
showed zero sense of urgency throughout the whole beating
by Cunny on Jan 24, 2012 8:53 AM EST up reply actions 4 recs
Seriously... that's fucking terrible reffing.
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David Loiseau V Charles McCarthy
If you haven’t seen that fight, check it out, the finish is awesome. Cro Cop V Herring also ended with a sick body kick
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Is that the one with the spinning back kick they show in the Baba O'Riley Montage?
That’s what I came here to mention.
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by Zachary Kater on Jan 24, 2012 9:04 AM EST up reply actions
Not sure about any Baba O'Riley
But yeah, not my favorite but I didnt see er on this list.
Tiny hurts people. When he loses his temper he goes completely out of control and his huge body becomes a lethal weapon. It is difficult to see what role he might play in the Great Society
by ODBasyoucansee on Jan 24, 2012 2:44 PM EST up reply actions
You gotta watch the montage vid. One of the best parts of seeing the UFC live. Plus they update it every so often with new footage to keep it relevant.
LINK HERE.
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by Zachary Kater on Jan 24, 2012 2:53 PM EST up reply actions
You are correct, Sir.
This is a low quality copy from someone with a handheld in the arena, but the Crow on Chainsaw back kick starts around 2:22. McCarthy’s reaction is so nasty its hard to watch.
UFC Baba O’Riley Montage
One huge one that completely slipped my mind
I can’t believe I forgot this one.
Renzo Gracie on Oleg Taktarov – MARS, 1996 – Upkick KO. This was the first time I can think of that anyone did any significant damage from their back with an upkick.
Video: Renzo Gracie v Oleg Taktarov Jump to about 1:10 for the kick.
without this fight i wonder if renzo would be legend status
this and the fight with miletich are his only big wins iirc
I’m not sure how to define “legend” status but Renzo has quite a few things going for him when it comes to accomplishments and recognition.
-Most obviously, he’s a Gracie, and one who was very open to cross training and striking.
-The year before he KO’d Taktarov, he won the WCC tournament beating 3 guys, including boxer James Warring (who had just beaten Eric Pulson) in one night.
-He was involved in the legendary Egenio Tadeu match that never finished because the fans rioted.
-He was involved in one of the longest, and arguably the most boring, MMA fights of all time, in a no time limit match with Sanae Kikuta. Renzo, thankfully, caught a guillotine after an excruciating hour plus of two guys in guard doing nothing. Do not watch this under any circumstances.
-Tapped former UFC HW Champ Mo Smith in Rings.
-Started career undefeated for 11 fights (9-0-1 1 NC)
-His run against Miltetich, Newton, and F. Shamrock (DQ) was really just icing on the cake at that point, and all of those guys were in very late portions of their career. I believe Miletich’s neck was ruined and he probably never should have been in the ring when they fought.
-His losses are to a pretty decent list: Tamura, Sakuraba, Henderson, Oyama, Newton, Penn, Hughes.
by brainuse on Jan 24, 2012 9:55 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
how about dave herman's axe kick KO from his back?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V_iP0YG3Z4
(can’t find a gif)
Nice. I’d completely forgotten about that Herman brutality.
In keeping with the kicks from the ground theme, I offer the following:
Gegard Mousasi on Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza – Dream 6, 2008
Bonus if this link will work,
DaMarques Johnson on Edgar Garcia – UFC 107, 2009
Johnson hits the upkick and Garcia collapses into the triangle.
also, how about this one?
the kick isn’t as impressive as the two barrel rolls thou.
by darkotto23 on Jan 24, 2012 8:12 PM EST reply actions 4 recs
He's like
“You’d better not walk forward right into my rolling kneebar, bitch”
"God loves violence... Why else would there be so much of it? It's in us. It's what we are. We wage war, we burn sacrifices, and pillage and plunder and tear at the flesh of our brothers. And why? Because God gave us violence to wage in his honor... There's no moral order at all. There's just this: can my violence conquer yours?"
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by ElliotMatheny on Jan 27, 2012 9:33 AM EST up reply actions
I'm hoping that's Johnathan Ivey.
Just checked. Awesomely, it appears to be. This guy’s ratio of skill level to awesome things done in the ring, has got to be as good as anyone in the world.
If he never did anything but The People’s Elbow, he would have been a .gif legend, but he seems to constantly turn up doing something tremendous:
Actually, for a sub .500, rotund HW MMA fighter, Ivey is pretty decent with leglocks, and has hit some pretty slick rolling kneebars in grappling tourneys.
Shoguns soccer kicks
all of them
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Shogun’s like “GTFO of my ring!”
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by MicahtheCynic on Jan 25, 2012 11:05 AM EST up reply actions
Oh man, another one I missed completely
Gerard Gordeau on Telia Tuli – UFC 1, 1993
The very first fight on the very first UFC, and the big man gets blasted in the grill by the kickboxer. The legend is that Gordeau ended up with one of Tuli’s teeth lodged in the top of his foot, and another tooth may or may not have flown past the announcers. This is how the UFC started.
The story I heard is that the tooth flew by Big john's wife who then decided to leave the arena.
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by Sweet Scientist on Jan 25, 2012 12:58 PM EST up reply actions
Akihiro Gono on Ivan Salaverry - Shooto To The Top 1, 2001 - Spinning back kick TKO
Akihiro Gono on Ivan Salaverry – Shooto To The Top 1, 2001 – Spinning back kick TKO
More spinning back kick goodness
Stephane Dube on Kajan Johnson – TKO 15, 2004
Chuck Liddell on Vitor Belfort – UFC 37.5, 2002
Anderson Silva on Rich Franklin (II) – UFC 77, 2007
Cung Le on Scott Smith – Strikeforce, Not sure if these are I or II
Denis Siver on Paul Kelly – UFC 105, 2009
George St. Pierre on Matt Hughes (I) – UFC 50, 2004
Jon Jones on Vladimir Matyushenko – UFC Live 2, 2010
First Le-Smith gif is of the first fight, the second is of the second fight IIRC.
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by Sweet Scientist on Jan 25, 2012 1:00 PM EST up reply actions
I'd never seen this one
Adlan Amagov on Maskhat Akhmetov – ProFC Union Nation Cup 4, 2009 – Spinning Wheel kick KO
John Makdessi on Pat Audinwood - UFC 124, 2010
Jumping, spinning kick and ax kick both landed:
Back of the head?
That top gif sure looks like he connected to the back of the head late in the 3rd round…
It was more of the side of the head, away from the bottom of the neck
Either way he wasn’t intentionally targeting it, so it doesn’t really matter.
by discoandherpes on Feb 1, 2012 9:41 AM EST up reply actions
This thread needs more threads
I was just thinking the other day that I’d love to see a liver kick / punch highlight reel or thread full of gifs…after watching Tito Ortiz and Brock Lesnar crumple from them, I feel like the good old liver kick is making a comeback.
Plus, that look on Brock’s face, as the realization that his liver just exploded, is priceless.
I can never get enough of the delayed reaction “OHMYFUCK” looks fighters have when the signal finally reaches their brain that their body has called for the check, grabbed its coat and is headed for the car already.
can never get enough of the delayed reaction "OHMYFUCK" looks fighters have when the signal finally reaches their brain that their body has called for the check, grabbed its coat and is headed for the car already.
If you haven’t yet, scroll up and watch the Sakuraba v Belfort link. My favorite body kick reaction of all time. “Tell you what, I’m just gonna saunter over here to the other side of the ring and lay down for a minute.”
A John Dodson Still Frame Montage
Having trouble finding .gifs and/or videos of these but this is an awesome collection. Word for a long time was that this guy throws ridiculous shit in training, and after the Pettis showtime kick landed, some were saying that Dodson had been doing this stuff for quite some time.
Bumping this with some legkick action
Absolute ridiculousness from Anderson Silva on Thales Leites:
Anderson Silva catching Forrest Griffin’s kick and returning his own:
Houston Alexander on Sherman Pendergrast:
Thiago Alves montage on John Howard:
Tyson Griffin feinting the hell out of Hermes Franca
Edson Barboza on Mike Lullo:
Lyoto Machida goes legkick/highkick combo on Tito Ortiz
Ricardo Arona on Alistair Overeem (Like everything else he does, Arona kicks hard).
Jose Aldo on Manny Gamburyan
Houston would've beat Kimbo if he'd committed to more low kicks.
"God loves violence... Why else would there be so much of it? It's in us. It's what we are. We wage war, we burn sacrifices, and pillage and plunder and tear at the flesh of our brothers. And why? Because God gave us violence to wage in his honor... There's no moral order at all. There's just this: can my violence conquer yours?"
- Warden of Ashecliffe Hospital
by ElliotMatheny on Jan 31, 2012 6:49 PM EST up reply actions
He did a fairly good job with the low kicks throughout, even into the last minute.
Much more concerning problems were his circling aimlessly, gassing hard by the end of the second round, and getting soundly out-wrestled by Kimbo Slice.
He did drop Slice with a real nice leg kick later in the fight, that I unfortunately can’t find a .gif of.
I wouldn't say "throughout".
Houston basically had spurts of drilling Kimbo with low kicks. I honestly think that he was afraid of Kimbo the urban legend’s punching prowess, instead of objectively noting Kimbo’s strengths/ weaknesses, and fighting him earnestly.
"God loves violence... Why else would there be so much of it? It's in us. It's what we are. We wage war, we burn sacrifices, and pillage and plunder and tear at the flesh of our brothers. And why? Because God gave us violence to wage in his honor... There's no moral order at all. There's just this: can my violence conquer yours?"
- Warden of Ashecliffe Hospital
by ElliotMatheny on Feb 1, 2012 6:01 PM EST up reply actions
Also, two awkward headkicks for the kids
BJ Penn on Diego Sanchez:
Gabriel Gonzaga on Chris Tuchsherer
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