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MMA's 25 Worst Cheap Shots


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Despite its fearsome reputation, the sport is chock full of fighters who work hard, love their families and honor their profession and each other. In nine cases out of 10, MMA fighters are respectful and respectable people.
This slideshow is about the other one.
It seems that no apple barrel is immune to a little spoilage. And when your chosen source of income entails hitting, kicking and twisting another man’s body parts, there’s going to be some bad seeds in the mix.
Every now and then, the result of that equation is a cheap shot. What follows are the 25 dirtiest, nastiest cheapest cheap shots the sport of mixed martial arts has ever produced. Some are cringeworthy, some are strange and most are, to be frank, rather hilarious, in that easy-for-me-to-say kind of way.
Please enjoy.

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25. Brendan Schaub Punches Back of Cro Cop's Head




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Schaub was deducted a point at UFC 128 for repeatedly punching Mirko Cro Cop in the back of the head, despite repeated warnings.
The deduction led to a draw in the second round, which could have been significant if Schaub had not knocked Cro Cop out in the final stanza.

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24. Henderson Cleans Bisping's Clock

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23. Wanderlei Silva Holds Ropes While Stomping Yuki Kondo





Sports fans can be a delusional bunch, and MMA aficionados are no exception.

When a guy they like is dishing out they cheap shots—a guy like, say, Wanderlei Silva—they are often excused. Oh, it was adrenaline! He momentarily thought he was fighting in the streets again!
A look at the replay shows Silva enthusiastically grabbing the ropes to give his stomping that extra something special. At least Wandy isn't conflicted about his dirtiness.
The best part of the video is the ref, hopping around like a flustered pigeon as he tries to work up the courage to call Wandy off.







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22. Paul Kelly Uses Glove Touch to Blindside Cerrone





In MMA, one of the dirtiest moves is punching (or kicking, and we'll get to that) your opponent just before, during or after the touch of gloves, which is the fight game's signature display of sportsmanship.
Paul Kelly provides a decent example here, though it might only have succeeded in angering Donald Cerrone, who went on to get the submission win. Kelly later apologized for his underhandedness.
You almost have to try to get video quality this awful, but it does show it. Fast forward to about the 1:15 mark.

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21. Bisping Lands Knee on a Downed Jorge Rivera



Nothing incidental about this. Look at the video…he lines it up like he’s about to try a field goal.
Once Bisping scored the knockout (not long after this knee), he followed it up by spitting on various people in Rivera’s corner.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Michael Bisping needs a sports psychologist

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20. Manny Gamburyan Kicks Jeff Cox Before Glove Touch




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Right about now, I wish Bleacher Report accepted GIFs.
But it's not to be, so you'll just have to take my word for it. Or do your own Web search. Either way.
Regardless, at UFC Fight Night 13 Gamburyan delivers a spinning back kick on an unsuspecting Jeff Cox just milliseconds before their gloves would have touched. He later dedicated the kick to all the kids out there, which in retrospect made it a lot more meaningful.

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19. Rampage Punches Wandy When He’s Down




It’s funny how several of the guys on this list appear on both the giving and receiving end of the cheap shot. Insert knowing reap-what-you-sow comment here.
These two had bad blood going well back to the heyday of Pride, when Silva brutally defeated Rampage twice—once for the middleweight title, and once for the middleweight grand prix.
Rampage gets a small measure of revenge when he knocks out Wandy in their third match, then gets in three very hard and unabated shots to Wandy's jaw after the referee has called the stoppage.

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18. When a Choke and a Late Hit Just Aren't Enough




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Arrgh! Another one I couldn't find video for.
After defeating Donnie Chappell by first-round chokeout at UFC 14, Tony Fyrklund dropped a late blow on him, and then stepped on him while walking away. He then short-sheeted Chappell's bed that night and spiked his breakfast with itching powder the next morning.
Fryklund disappointed scumbags everywhere by later apologizing.

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17. Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou Loses His Mind on Jan Nortje





Sokoudjou lands, by my count, about six extracurricular punches after the ref has thrown himself on top of the defenseless Nortje. Extremely egregious here, as evidenced by the scuffle that ensued afterward between members of the two corners.
Why did Sokoudjou do it? Well, to be honest, Nortje looks like a mouth breather. And you know how annoying that can be.

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16. Arlovski Rabbit Punches Marcio Cruz, a Lot


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The strangest thing about this one is that, despite repeated warnings, the blows somehow led to an Arlovski win at UFC 66. Go figure.

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15. The Groin Slides, Part 1: Keith Hackney




Before you say it, just save your breath. I know this was technically legal when Hackney pulled this out of his black bag of tricks against Joe Son back at UFC 4.
And yet, here it is on the cheap shots list. Why?


BECAUSE HE IS REPEATEDLY PUNCHING ANOTHER MAN IN THE BALLS.

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14. The Groin Slides, Part 2: Cheick Kongo



Lifetime achievement in the field of groin striking goes to Kongo, who has a long and thoroughly documented history of kneeing guys in the yarbles.

I was looking for a YouTube montage of Kongo’s greatest hits, and was disappointed to find none.
What do YouTube montage makers do all day, anyway?

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13. Chris “Cheap Shot” Sheridan



When it's the guy's freaking nickname, you know it's bad

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12. Takanori Gomi Charges Luiz Azeredo


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At Bushido 7 in 2005, Gomi caught Azeredo and knocked him out. But, for whatever reason, he continued to attack his unconscious opponent as if in a frenzy.
He ultimately had to be restrained by venue security.


11. Almeida, Marquardt, Gracie Pull off Cheap Shot Triple Play



Fellow Bleacher Report columnist Blake Dreisbach sums it up nicely here.
In a nutshell, though, Almeida holds the choke on Marquardt a few beats too long after forcing the tap, which prompts Nate the Great to hit Almeida after the stoppage, which then prompts Almeida trainer Renzo Gracie to kick Marquardt in the face, which then activates a pulley system that lowers Cheick Kongo into the ring for a series of groin strikes.
What a fascinating contraption!


10. Gilbert Yvel Trilogy, Part 1, Wherein He Gouges the Eye of Don Frye


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Whenever you have "L -- DQ (eye gouge)" on your record, you're in some pretty select company.
You can check out a GIF of the gouge here.


9. Wes Sims Stomps on Frank Mir’s Head



Wes Sims has a reputation as a cheap shot artist. But at UFC 43, he seemed to blow a fuse when he stomped repeatedly on Mir’s head in plain sight of anyone with eyesight. He earned a DQ loss in the process.
But don’t feel too bad for Mir. He absolutely crushed Sims, fair and square, in their rematch at UFC 46.


8. Babalu Holds Choke on David Heath


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Renato "Babalu” Sobral is a very angry young man.
Before their fight at UFC 74, David Heath called Babalu a bad name. After the fight, Heath was lying unconscious in a pool of his own blood.
Realizing that he had, in the heat of the moment, held the anaconda choke long after Heath tapped, Sobral immediately went into damage control mode after the fight.
“He has to learn respect," Babalu reasoned. "He deserved that.”
LeBron James would be proud.
A few days after the incident, Sobral was booted from the UFC.


7. Paul Daley Sucker Punches Josh Koscheck



For a variety of reasons, Daley got pretty frustrated during his fight with Kos. Unfortunately for Daley and his UFC career, he waited until after the fight to take those frustrations out on his opponent.
You're just encouraging him, Paul. You're just encouraging him.


6. Gilbert Yvel Trilogy, Part 2, Wherein He Bites Another Man


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The unlucky Evander Holyfield to Yvel’s Mike Tyson was Karimula Barkalaev, who on the bright side did pick up a DQ win after the ref saw what Yvel did.
I love Herb Dean's expression in this photo. "Gilbert, you just, I mean, you can't just bite people."


5. Palhares Subs Drwal


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Palhares holds the heel hook for a loooong time after the stop, long after Drwal seems to go hoarse from screaming and the ref has strained muscles in an attempt to break the two apart.
Some time later, Drwal shared his thoughts on the moment:

“I think when someone taps and screams it means that he's done, that he concedes the win to the other guy and that the guy should stop the hold without fearing any misunderstandings with the ref.”

I’m no Big John McCarthy, but I think I must concur with that assessment.
For Palhares’ part, he protested the 90-day suspension, saying he was “just waiting for the ref to interrupt the match.” Yes, I can see how the ref pushing on you so hard that his neck tendons pop out may leave a little room for ambiguity. Way to be wishy-washy about it, ref.
(Postscript: thankfully, Drwal was not seriously injured.)


4. Glove Tap, Baby, Glove Tap



The most egregious of the Glove Touch Cheap Shot subgenere.
Atilla Kubilay absolutely wrecks Richard Bowkett with a cheap shot at Cage Rage 13.
But he does it before the fight starts.
Pssst…Atilla…this didn’t give you an advantage.
Check out the video. It's so stupid it's almost hypnotic.


3. The Heath Herring Kiss Punch



Maybe not the worst on this list, but probably the most famous. In fact, if memory serves, this video went viral before anyone knew what going viral meant.
The best part is that Herring knocks The Kisser absolutely cold with what looks at a glance like an open-handed slap, like some indignant woman who didn't care for the young man's advances.
I never get tired of watching this.


2. Gerard Gordeau


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No. 2 is not for a single shot, but for a single man. Give it up for the Ty Cobb of MMA, only if Ty Cobb wasn't all that good at baseball.
Doesn't he just look like the dirtiest fighter you've ever seen?
Gordeau bit, low-blowed and gouged his way through a decade-long career in various martial arts and MMA promotions. He fought three times in UFC 1 before losing in the final to Royce Gracie. In his last MMA bout, he gouged the eyes of Yuki Nakai so badly that Nakai lost sight in his right eye.
Gordeau still lost the fight.



1. Gilbert Yvel Trilogy, Part 3: The Ref Punch



Like a few of the examples before this, I wonder what he hoped to accomplish here. That's a referee, Gilbert Yvel. He's a necessary arbiter of the fight, at worst, and your ally at best.
Was Yvel expecting a friend to slide under the ropes with a steel chair to help him finish off the opponent? Is he crazy?
I need answers here. I want to know why. Why, Gilbert Yvel? Why?


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11. Almeida, Marquardt, Gracie Pull off Cheap Shot Triple Play





Fellow Bleacher Report columnist Blake Dreisbach sums it up nicely here



In a nutshell, though, Almeida holds the choke on Marquardt a few beats too long after forcing the tap, which prompts Nate the Great to hit Almeida after the stoppage, which then prompts Almeida trainer Renzo Gracie to kick Marquardt in the face, which then activates a pulley system that lowers Cheick Kongo into the ring for a series of groin strikes.
What a fascinating contraption!

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10. Gilbert Yvel Trilogy, Part 1, Wherein He Gouges the Eye of Don Frye




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Whenever you have "L -- DQ (eye gouge)" on your record, you're in some pretty select company.

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9. Wes Sims Stomps on Frank Mir’s Head



Wes Sims has a reputation as a cheap shot artist. But at UFC 43, he seemed to blow a fuse when he stomped repeatedly on Mir’s head in plain sight of anyone with eyesight. He earned a DQ loss in the process.
But don’t feel too bad for Mir. He absolutely crushed Sims, fair and square, in their rematch at UFC 46.

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8. Babalu Holds Choke on David Heath




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Renato "Babalu” Sobral is a very angry young man.
Before their fight at UFC 74, David Heath called Babalu a bad name. After the fight, Heath was lying unconscious in a pool of his own blood.
Realizing that he had, in the heat of the moment, held the anaconda choke long after Heath tapped, Sobral immediately went into damage control mode after the fight.
“He has to learn respect," Babalu reasoned. "He deserved that.”
LeBron James would be proud.
A few days after the incident, Sobral was booted from the UFC.

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7. Paul Daley Sucker Punches Josh Koscheck





For a variety of reasons, Daley got pretty frustrated during his fight with Kos. Unfortunately for Daley and his UFC career, he waited until after the fight to take those frustrations out on his opponent.
You're just encouraging him, Paul. You're just encouraging him.

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6. Gilbert Yvel Trilogy, Part 2, Wherein He Bites Another Man




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The unlucky Evander Holyfield to Yvel’s Mike Tyson was Karimula Barkalaev, who on the bright side did pick up a DQ win after the ref saw what Yvel did.
I love Herb Dean's expression in this photo. "Gilbert, you just, I mean, you can't just bite people."

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5. Palhares Subs Drwal


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Palhares holds the heel hook for a loooong time after the stop, long after Drwal seems to go hoarse from screaming and the ref has strained muscles in an attempt to break the two apart.

Some time later, Drwal shared his thoughts on the moment:

“I think when someone taps and screams it means that he's done, that he concedes the win to the other guy and that the guy should stop the hold without fearing any misunderstandings with the ref.”

I’m no Big John McCarthy, but I think I must concur with that assessment.

For Palhares’ part, he protested the 90-day suspension, saying he was “just waiting for the ref to interrupt the match.” Yes, I can see how the ref pushing on you so hard that his neck tendons pop out may leave a little room for ambiguity. Way to be wishy-washy about it, ref.

(Postscript: thankfully, Drwal was not seriously injured.)

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4. Glove Tap, Baby, Glove Tap





The most egregious of the Glove Touch Cheap Shot subgenere.
Atilla Kubilay absolutely wrecks Richard Bowkett with a cheap shot at Cage Rage 13.
But he does it before the fight starts.
Pssst…Atilla…this didn’t give you an advantage.
Check out the video. It's so stupid it's almost hypnotic.

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3. The Heath Herring Kiss Punch





Maybe not the worst on this list, but probably the most famous. In fact, if memory serves, this video went viral before anyone knew what going viral meant.
The best part is that Herring knocks The Kisser absolutely cold with what looks at a glance like an open-handed slap, like some indignant woman who didn't care for the young man's advances.
I never get tired of watching this.

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2. Gerard Gordeau


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No. 2 is not for a single shot, but for a single man. Give it up for the Ty Cobb of MMA, only if Ty Cobb wasn't all that good at baseball.
Doesn't he just look like the dirtiest fighter you've ever seen?
Gordeau bit, low-blowed and gouged his way through a decade-long career in various martial arts and MMA promotions. He fought three times in UFC 1 before losing in the final to Royce Gracie. In his last MMA bout, he gouged the eyes of Yuki Nakai so badly that Nakai lost sight in his right eye.
Gordeau still lost the fight.

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1. Gilbert Yvel Trilogy, Part 3: The Ref Punch





Like a few of the examples before this, I wonder what he hoped to accomplish here. That's a referee, Gilbert Yvel. He's a necessary arbiter of the fight, at worst, and your ally at best.
Was Yvel expecting a friend to slide under the ropes with a steel chair to help him finish off the opponent? Is he crazy?
I need answers here. I want to know why. Why, Gilbert Yvel? Why?

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And they call this crap SPORT :mad: :dunno:

No wonder there is so much violence around these days.


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Wow--A lot of good stuff in this thread. You put a lot if work & time into this thread, Ladybbird. Well done, & Thank You ! :thumb:

This is gr8 for MMA fans.