Lee Casebolt

🤼🥋🥊🧵Every UFC finish til I get bored with it or run out of material Skipping the Taktarov/Shamrock superfight (no finish) and right to the finals. Interesting technically as you can watch Varelans invent checking leg kicks in real time, but ultimately too late before Ruas chops him down.

🤼🥋🥊🧵Every UFC finish til I get bored with it or run out of material Had high hopes for Ruas/Pardoel but not much to this one aside from the Blatnik-predicted UFC debut of the footstomp (pioneered by James Warring as we now know). Pardoel defended the leglock but tapped as soon as Ruas mounted him.

Also credit where it's due, Hall kicked the fight off with this very cool jumping punch

🤼🥋🥊🧵Every UFC finish til I get bored with it or run out of material Lucky Mark Hall draws Paul Varelans in the semis, gets headlocked, mounted, and... they call it a keylock submission but I think it's the elbows that did Hall in.

🤼🥋🥊🧵Every UFC finish til I get bored with it or run out of material Marco Ruas the big name for this one, a Brazilian vale tudo legend who allegedly fought Rickson Gracie to a draw that no one in the US had ever actually seen. His leglock from the bottom on Larry Cureton was a new one in the UFC.

🤼🥋🥊🧵Every UFC finish til I get bored with it or run out of material Remco Pardoel came back to headlock karateka Ryan Parker and choke him out

🤼🥋🥊🧵Every UFC finish til I get bored with it or run out of material Gerry Harris and the returning Paul Varelans are both 6'8 and a combined 560lbs; you can see why Royce dipped. Varelans learned his lesson w/ Cal Worsham and put Harris on the floor right away and pounded him out

🤼🥋🥊 Much less comedic value than the contemporary Reza Nasri tapes; Hart mostly shows very fundamental judo-like throws with a couple flashier but still valid techniques like the Flying Crab (kani basami)

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🤼Smejkal works a half nelson, gets a little out of position, and Fristensky spins out to reverse

🤼Josef Smejkal hitting an arm drag to go behind Gustav Fristensky, getting a takedown and turn in their 1913 professional Greco-Roman match in Prague

🤼Bruno Hackenschmidt (I think) hitting a toe hold on Josef Steinbach (I think), 1911 (those wrestlers could be reversed, I do not read Cyrillic)

🥋🥊Mo lands one more and the ref mercifully calls this one in the second.

🥋🥊It's not a good sign when you land arguably your best punch of the fight (I said what I said) and you're the one who goes down. He took a 9 count!

🥋🥊Like four or five leg kicks have landed and Rosier is in the "randomly fall down while advancing" stage of the fight. Still round 2!

🥋🥊Round 2 - leg kick, knockdown. Smith's hardly throwing, feels like one strike a minute lands and it's a knockdown every time

🥋🥊Smith drops him again a minute later with a leg kick. 1990 Kevin Rosier makes every UFC heavyweight of the last 25 years look like prime Ernesto Hoost.

🥋🥊Maurice Smith pops Kevin Rosier in the first round of his 1990 WKA heavyweight title defense

🥋🥊9th and final round, Bob Ryan knocks Rodriguez down with a spinning back fist into a kick and makes sure to tell him about it after.

🥋🥊Didn't really get all of it but Bob Ryan hitting this jump spinning back kick off the break in the eighth(!!) round is still incredible

🥋🥊Believe we're in R7 now; Blinky suffered a cut and has turned it up to try for the KO before that becomes a factor, dropping Ryan again with a series of body shots.

🥋🥊Just as I say that Bob Ryan catches one of Blinky's kicks and drops him with a straight right

🥋🥊...and another one early in Round 4. Ryan's more than game but Blinky Rodriguez is clearly dominating this fight.

🥋🥊Blinky catches Ryan with a front sweep right behind the knee in R3

🥋🥊Blinky Rodriguez drops Bob Ryan with a hellacious overhand right in the first round of their 1980 WKA World super middleweight title fight

🤼🥋🥊Rolling collar choke wins Valerii Ergalov the men's 58kg combat sambo European championship

🤼🥋Anastasia Filippovich rolls into a kneebar to win the women's 72kg European sambo title

🤼🥋🥊Arbocius hits this incredible insult-to-injury ippon seoi nage in the 3rd karate round and Aguilar wisely calls it quits. Kestutis Arbocius your 2000 World Shidokan Open middleweight champion.

🥋🥊Arbocius did a number on Aguilar's right leg and kept at it. This grip on the gi to off-balance and control while striking is classic Shidokan. Aguilar gets up but he looks ready to go.

🥋🥊Kick catch and sweep from Arbocius in r2. He's dominating this final already.

🤼🥋🥊Arbocius kicks off the 2000 Shidokan Middleweight Final against Aguilar with the smoothest osotogari to jujigatame I've ever seen in actual competition. Unfortunately for him submission are not allowed in the opening karate rounds so it doesn't count except in our hearts.

🥋🥊Arbocius finally inflicts enough damage for the sadists in Saikai's corner to throw in the towel. Goddamn.

🥋🥊Short hook into a knee, Saikai goes down. Does he stay down? Of course not. Doesn't even get a count. I've got 2 knockdowns, 2 standing 8s, and I lost count of how many throws / sweeps. Saikai's spent more time on the canvas than Mona Lisa.

🥋🥊Round 5, MMAish rules and smaller gloves and Saikai eats this combination, goes down, gets up, and they let him continue *again*. Please add Ryo Saikai to your "too tough for their own good" fighter list.

🥋🥊Arbocius slides behind and catches Saikai with a short left that calls for another standing 8 but again they let Saikai continue

🥋🥊Jump to R4 and somehow none of this lands clean enough to put Saikai down. Gets a standing 8 and they let it continue.

🥋🥊Arbocius picks up where he left off in R2, dropping Sakai with a spinning crescent kick.

🥋🥊Abrocius closes out a dominant first round with an osotogari-like outside trip at the bell

🥋🥊Arbocius goes tornado kick, knee, sweep, you know, like you do. Right out of the kata I'm sure.

🥋🥊Arbocius gets a quick sweep on Ryo Saikai in the first round of our second Shidokan semi.

🥋🥊Hector Monterrey took Aguilar the 6 round distance in the 2000 Shidokan middleweight semis but Frederic Aguilar was just a little better in all three (karate / kickboxing / MMA) phases and advanced to the final

🥋🥊N'Toh finally gets a little offense in with this kick catch and sweep.

🥋🥊Round 3 of the Shidokan format switches from bareknuckle karate rules to kickboxing; Arbocius lashes out with a right hand off a caught kick that puts N'Toh down for the third time in as many rounds.

🥋🥊Round 2 repeat of Round 1 for Arbocius and N'Toh

🥋🥊 Another 2000 Shidokan middleweight quarterfinal; Kestutis Arbocius sends Manu N'Toh flying with a powerful front kick

🥋🥊Aguilar went back to the body again and again in R2, finishing Sarcozi with this combination.

🥋🥊Robert Sarcozi gets dropped by a nasty knee to the body from Frederick Aguilar at the bell in R1 of their 2000 Shidokan Open middleweight quarterfinal fight.

🤼If I had to explain what a Texas Death Match is it's Terry Funk hitting Dusty Rhodes with his boot so Dusty ankle picks him, steals his other boot, puts it on his hand like a boxing glove, and lights up Terry, who sells it like a bloody Daffy Duck. Pro wrestling is the ultimate American art.

🤼Dusty and Terry beating the shit out of each other as God intended

🤼🥋🥊🧵 Taking a break from early UFCs to bring you every finish from the 1995 World Combat Championships Fresh Renzo Gracie vs drained James Warring doesn't leave a lot of drama for the final. Quick takedown, mount, looks like maybe an Ezekiel choke gets the tap

🤼🥋🥊🧵 Taking a break from early UFCs to bring you every finish from the 1995 World Combat Championships Before the final, here's Fred Floyd guillotining(ish) Jerry Flynn in a prelim fight. Yes, the WCW Saturday Night guy. One of a ton of Florida pro wrestlers who bounced in and out of shoot style.

🤼🥋🥊🧵 Taking a break from early UFCs to bring you every finish from the 1995 World Combat Championships By contrast, Warring / Paulson is a grueling 15m+ contest, lots of knees in cageside clinches and leg and body kicks at range. Warring does a ton of damage from a hair grab clinch.

🤼🥋🥊🧵 Taking a break from early UFCs to bring you every finish from the 1995 World Combat Championships Vale dropped out so Renzo gets random bodybuilder and alleged wrestler Phil Benedict in the semis and you're not gonna believe this but this one doesn't go long.

🤼🥋🥊🧵 Taking a break from early UFCs to bring you every finish from the 1995 World Combat Championships Former IBF cruiserweight champ James Warring puts down French savate champ Jerome Turcan, gets the metaphorical boot in, and hammers out the finish.

🤼🥋🥊🧵 Taking a break from early UFCs to bring you every finish from the 1995 World Combat Championships Otherwise pretty good commentator Todd Christensen mentions Bart Vale's KO of Ken Shamrock like it's a real thing in the midst of Vale's absolute mauling of Mike Bitonio prior to this arm triangle

🤼🥋🥊🧵 Taking a break from early UFCs to bring you every finish from the 1995 World Combat Championships Putting Erik Paulson, grappling genius and the most half-hearted puncher I've ever seen in MMA, in the "striker's bracket" of this odd even was a choice but he gnp'ed Sean McCully to advance.

🤼🥋🥊🧵 Taking a break from early UFCs to bring you every finish from the 1995 World Combat Championships 3-time Olympian Ben Spijkers was probably the most decorated athlete to compete in NHB / MMA to this point. He got Renzo Gracie in the first round and it, uh, didn't go great for him

🤼🥋Savelli Soldatenkov wins the European Combat Sambo heavyweight championship with this topside half guard kneebar

I see your tacky kick ass PRISM intro and raise you the glorious nonsense of a 1996 Samurai TV Battle Station intro from Japan

🤼🥋🥊🧵Every UFC finish til I get bored with it or run out of material The final wasn't exciting but was grueling, an 18 minute grind between two guys on their 3rd fights at elevation (Casper WY) until Oleg got Tank's back and choked him to force the tap.

🤼🥋🥊🧵Every UFC finish til I get bored with it or run out of material Superfight time! UFC 5 champ Dan Severn faces guy who drew Royce Gracie Ken Shamrock. I poke fun but Shamrock defended Severn's takedowns and locked in this guillotine choke to win the Superfight title.

🤼🥋🥊🧵Every UFC finish til I get bored with it or run out of material It's the first widely acknowledged thrown fight in UFC history as Pat Smith withdraws and is replaced by alternate Anthony Macias, a training partner of Oleg Taktarov. Macias gave a little wink and dove right into this guillotine.

🤼🥋🥊🧵Every UFC finish til I get bored with it or run out of material When people heard "martial artists fight each other in a cage" I'm sure they had many different ideas of what that looked like but guessing none came up with driving a guy's face into the cage with your knee. Except Tank Abbott.

🤼🥋🥊🧵Every UFC finish til I get bored with it or run out of material Two potential finalists in returning Oleg Taktarov and Dave Beneteau meet in the first round. Beneteau lands some good shots but falls to Oleg's arm-in guillotine

🤼🥋🥊🧵Every UFC finish til I get bored with it or run out of material It's honestly very funny that three of kickboxer Pat Smith's four career UFC wins are by choke; here he is with a rear naked choke(ish) of kenpo stylist Rudy Moncayo

🤼🥋🥊🧵Every UFC finish til I get bored with it or run out of material Cal Worsham was actually getting the better of this slugfest but Paul Varelans took advantage of his considerable height advantage to land this devastating elbow

🤼🥋🥊🧵Every UFC finish til I get bored with it or run out of material UFC 6 kicks off with the debut of Tank Abbott and this legendary near-homicide of John Matua

🤼🥋I mostly only do the big throws but man, watch Danlil Patachyts flip out of this well set-up hip throw in the FIAS European finals.

🤼Wouldn't be a 1990 Steiners match if we didn't get a Frankensteiner

🤼...or this piledriver. Reed got aaaallllll that.

🤼...like this bulldog Reed hits on Scott

🤼Scott Steiner hits a... I guess single leg suplex on Ron Simmons. (Steiners have the more dynamic offense and hence get most of the clips but I assure you Doom is getting theirs in)

🤼Rick Steiner says fuck your little back body drop

🤼Jim Ross having a great time reading off a laundry list of athletic accolades and Rick Steiner and Butch Reed just run into each other.

🤼Reversal of the irish whip sends Simmons chest-first into the corner and Scotty catches him on the rebound with a suplex

🤼Big Scott Steiner powerslam kicks off the offense in this one.

🤼WCW Vault threw up Doom / Steiners from Capital Combat 90 and it begins with the comedy segment of this random fan trying to start shit with Teddy Long, the only man associated with this match that wouldn't send him home in a box.

🤼🥋Iana Dzhumaeva takes a 4-0 lead in the FIAS European Sambo Championship 59kg final off this harai goshi-like throw.

🤼🥋🥊Taila Santos puts Yan Qihui down with a stabbing front kick to the body; follow up punches are superfluous.

🤼🥋🥊🧵Every UFC finish til I get bored with it or run out of material Obviously we're skipping Gracie / Shamrock because there is no finish. Severn and Beneteau your final; some cage wrestling leads to a slick little footsweep from Severn, then he finds the top wristlock/ude garami submission finish

🤼🥋🥊🧵Every UFC finish til I get bored with it or run out of material Dan Severn makes Oleg Taktarov bleed his own blood til they're forced to stop this one

🤼🥋🥊🧵Every UFC finish til I get bored with it or run out of material Dave Beneteau comes in as an alternate replacing Jon Hess - I'll dig up his 21 sec wrecking of Asbel Cancio in a sec - and quickly mounts Todd Medina, throws some punches, and he's into the final.

🤼🥋🥊🧵Every UFC finish til I get bored with it or run out of material Dan Severn faced the very respectable Joe "Ghetto-Man" Charles in our last quarterfinal. The Beast ripping Charles off the fence by his neck is an all-time MMA visual for me.

🤼🥋🥊🧵Every UFC finish til I get bored with it or run out of material Oleg Taktarov makes his UFC debut against Florida State Black Belt Association heavyweight champion Ernie Verdecia. Verdecia did ok til Oleg hit this elevator / half butterfly sweep into a kesa gatame choke.

🤼🥋🥊🧵Every UFC finish til I get bored with it or run out of material The UFC's first jeet kune do expert Todd Medina dispatches kickboxer Larry Cureton with headbutts and a pressure choke not clearly visible on video

🤼🥋🥊🧵Every UFC finish til I get bored with it or run out of material Kicking off the main card with SAFTA master Jon Hess kicking the bejeezus out of karate / aikido / strip club steakhouse proponent Andy Anderson. Hess would not continue after this dominating performance, replaced by Dave Beneteau

🥋🥊Niall McGreevy's knee to elbow combination knocks down Choojaroen in R1

🥋🥊Nongmay got up from that knee but these elbows put her down again and the fight is waived off. Laura Burgos your Rajadamnern Stadium Women's Interim Bantamweight champ.

🥋🥊Laura Burgos knocks down Nongmay in R3 of their RWS title fight

🤼Yusho playoff; this basho was Kirishima's to lose for most of the last week and he lost it. Slips a little on the start and Wakatakakage forces him out (yorikiri) to take his first top division tournament win.

🤼Kirishima kind of Uras Ura, putting him down with this wild foot sweep / shove we're calling oshitaoshi (front push down). Ura's down in the 10-5s, solid finish for our boy, while Kirishima is going to face off with Wakatakakage to see which 12-3 finisher takes Natsu basho

🤼Wakatakakage throws Fujiryoga to eliminate him from contention and with him everyone who hoped 11 wins might somehow be enough. Waka finishes 12-3 and waits on Kirishima's result. Fujiryoga in the 10-5 club.

🤼Yoshinofuji forces Kotoeiho out (yorikiri) to keep hope alive at 11-4; Kotoeiho out of it at a strong 10-5.

🤼Alright, let's see how insane makuuchi turned out. Hakunofuji does his part - a quick henka and slap down of Fujiseiun puts him at 11-4 and alive for a playoff if the top two slip. Fujiseiun finishes make-koshi at 7-8.

🤼Kazuma seals his juryo yusho by forcing out Nishinoryu to finish 12-3. Nishinoryu 7-8 on the month.

🤼Enho and Kyokukaiyu battle on the outside. Enho finally gets his inside position but gets crushed by Kyokukaiyu's abisetaoshi (backward force down). Kykokukaiyu fnishes 9-6, Enho 8-7.