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MMA fighter KOs opponent with vicious head kick despite breaking own arm mid-fight

27-11-2017 < RT 65 359 words
 





This is the moment English MMA fighter Brendan Loughnane knocked out his opponent with a vicious head kick at ACB 75 in Stuttgart, Germany, last weekend – despite breaking his arm mid-fight.



Loughnane, a 27-year-old Manchester native who was taking part in his third fight under the banner of Russian MMA promotion ACB (Absolute Championship Berkut), against Paata Tschapelia from Georgia, finished the night with a yet another knockout.



FINAL MOMENT OF THE FIGHT STARTS AT THE 16:15 MARK


While the KO became the ninth in his 15-3 professional career, it was also the first to come from a head kick.


The KO became even more remarkable when the reason emerged as to why Loughnane was using his legs to finish his opponent in the last minutes of the third round.


In the middle of the second round, the Englishman threw a powerful spinning back fist strike at the Georgian challenger, which landed on his opponent’s shoulder as he was blocking the shot.



After that, Loughnane didn’t land single shot with his right arm, which he later revealed he had broken.


The Englishman still found his way to knockout his opponent, who had never been finished before. As they were wrestling by the cage in the middle of the third round, Loughnane managed to land a knee shot to Tschapelia’s head, which visibly shocked him.


And as he was turning around, already not defending himself, the Englishman landed a perfect head kick that knocked the Georgian out, causing the referee to wave off the fight.


“Let me tell you a quick story,” said Loughnane in his post fight interview with ACB’s play-by-play commentator Bryan Lacey.



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