UFC/MMA ‘Knockouts of the Year’ 2022 – Top 5 List

Irrespective of how the MMA meta develops, you might be assured that any given yr will see a very excessive variety of individuals get separated from their consciousness in brutal and sudden methods. 2022 might not have been the return to pleasure we wanted in any case these years of distress, nevertheless it actually delivered on the violence entrance. Listed below are MMA Mania’s 2022 Knockouts of the 12 months.

5. (TIE) Ilia Topuria and Josh Quinlan Flip Out the Lights

I like to order a spot on these lists for knockouts that won’t have been essentially the most artistic or technically proficient, however positively made me fear that I could have simply watched somebody die. Ilia Topuria bouncing again from a head kick knockdown to actually ship Jai Herbert flying and Josh Quinlan check-hooking Jason Witt into one other dimension actually qualify.

4. Andrey Koreshkov Breaks Probability Rencountre in Half

Simply being a spinning again kick knockout to the physique would have been sufficient to earn this end some consideration; you simply don’t see a ton of them on the highest stage today. What places it on the rostrum is the sheer harm it inflicted. Koreshkov, a favourite of mine since method again within the day, hit Rencountre so hard it broke five of his ribs and punctured his lung.

I feel that deserves some recognition.

3. Molly McCann Spins to Win

Spinning again elbows don’t get a lot cleaner than this. Molly McCann used the identical “assault a leg to arrange the elbow” trick that Jon Jones used to faceplant Stephan Bonnar again within the day, and in contrast to Bonnar, Carolina couldn’t tank it.

2. Michael Chandler Knocks Tony Ferguson Down the Evolutionary Line

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First Frankie Edgar, now Tony Ferguson. Entrance kicks sq. to the chin produce among the most grimly hilarious pictures in all of MMA, remodeling peak athletes into octogenarian neanderthals for one terrible second.

There’s, admittedly, some tragedy on this one. Ferguson was in among the greatest kind we’ve seen in years, solely to get poleaxed out of nowhere. Them’s the breaks.

1, Leon Edwards Shocks the World

Photograph by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC

Yeah, no query as to what would prime the checklist. Even when it wasn’t a literal last-minute knockout in a combat Edwards was dropping badly, it was a flush, out-on-impact left excessive kick landed on among the finest fighters within the sport. You’d be hard-pressed to discover a metric by which this doesn’t excel.

Honorable Mentions:

• Jamahal Hill (overhand proper) Johnny Walker
• Marlon Vera (head kick) Dominick Cruz
• Zhang Weili (spinning again fist) Joanna Jedrzejczyk
• Azamat Murzakanov (flying knee) Tafon Nchukwi
• Alex Pereira (left hook) Sean Strickland

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