UFC 129: Steven Seagal’s Front Kick Wins AgainFiled Under: Rantings, UFC
I really enjoyed watching UFC 129 -it had a lot of fun fights for me. The icing on the cake, however, was Lyoto Machida knocking out Randy Couture with the jumping front kick, karate kid style. I pretty much had a karategasm on the spot.
As for the naming convention of the move, the metropolitan intellectuals over at Sherdog pretty much nailed it – the “Segalian Dragonkick of Destiny” is it’s correct correct title (cred: Nihilism). Other acceptable (but not fully correct) names include the jumping front kick, the crane kick, and foot-to-face retirement sender. Personally, I don’t care what you might call it; I could watch that kick a million times and still enjoy it.
Of course, added joy comes into play with the fact that Steven Seagal has been chumming around with Lyoto and Anderson Silva, giving them his fighting tips. The post fight interview with Seagal is kinda fun, due to his nuttiness and the fact that he must only have one outfit – black leather jacket, yellow sunglasses. (In that spirit, I highly recommend you watch “Every bone Steven Seagal has ever broken.“ Poster wolffood7 astutely points out that breaking bones must make you fat.)
But one thing Seagal does strike true about is the deceptiveness of the kick. The magnum opus isn’t the kick, but the set up. Lyoto had landed that fast rear leg knee to the body, and Randy was leery of it. When Machida did a little hip shuffle, it distracted Couture and then the coup de grace spanked Randy’s brain into unconsciousness.
With Karate back in favor, you can wax nostalgic and relive some of your misspent childhood by watching the original. Just remember to sweep the leg.
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Tags: front kick, lyoto machida, Steven Seagal, ufc 129
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- 2 May 2011 1:04 AM
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May 2nd, 2011 at 1:20 am
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May 19th, 2011 at 4:10 am
Big fat monstro Seagal. Never seen his leg raise above his head
August 26th, 2011 at 1:08 pm
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August 26th, 2011 at 3:47 pm
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