The rare signature moves of fighters

[achoo42]

 

[OldBoy91]

I’ll go with something that won’t get posted, a surprise if you will!

The pivots of Jose Aldo. And of course.. the leg kicks

Can’t talk about Aldo without mentioning the leg kicks. Awesome!

The way he effortlessly checks calf kicks is very unique to him as well.

 

[Uber_Noober]

 

[jsbx45]

Did he? Here he is making Yan miss every single punch then pivots causing Yan to have his back turned to him

Sorry for the confusion I was actually referring to the leg kicks...

 

[generalyum]

Paul Sass' triangle

 

[jsbx45]

Certainly rare. Has it ever in fact been repeated?

 

[Fedorgasm]

I don't know what it's called, but when Jon Jones holds his fingers inches from your eyes.

He's not poking you (yet) but he's making you think you're about to get poked so it breaks your focus.

Never seen another fighter do that.

 

[DontBeMad]

here is a signature move for ya, the ability to just get up when you feel like it...

 

[StonedLemur]

After rewatching Barboza vs Yosuff it occurred to me no one will throw a wheel kick like Barboza. It's been in his wheelhouse his whole career. He hurt Khabib and FKL with it. No one could forget the Etim KO. Only others who seem to rock with it are maybe Sandhagen and Wonderboy. But nobody owns it like Edson

Any other examples?

It stopped Khabib in his tracks for like a second, he walked forward like the Terminator right after the kick.
He wasn't hurt by it, but he also didn't catch it clean.

 

[StonedLemur]

Jason Von Flue the Von Flue choke.

Thats more OSPs signature move at this point.

 

[StonedLemur]

I don't know what it's called, but when Jon Jones holds his fingers inches from your eyes.

He's not poking you (yet) but he's making you think you're about to get poked so it breaks your focus.

Never seen another fighter do that.

He did that like a mothafucka to Glover.
Its called POS special sir lol.

 

[moreorless87]

For rare moves Mirko's Ax kick.

 

[Spath]

Threads like this genuinely baffle me. If you watch the sport of MMA, you should be able to name no less than 50 of these moves. And I'm not joking. Here's a short list of takedowns only:

Osoto gari: Zabit Magomedsharipov
O goshi: Jason Saggo
Osoto gake: Yushin Okami
Ouchi gari: Randy Couture
Polish throw: Da Un Jung
High tree top single: Tatiana Suarez
Low single: Kazushi Sakuraba
Crackdown single: Jake Shields
Head outside single to inside sweep: Michinori Tanaka
Run the pipe single: Glover Teixeira / Marat Balaev

Let's keep going. Here's a short list of signature sweeps:

Cyborg's Tornado sweep: Tom Breese
Underhook single leg from half guard: Demian Maia
John Wayne Sweep: Mansour Barnoui
Situp sweep: Godofredo Pepey
X guard sweep: Wilson Reis
Homer simpson sweep: Nogueira brothers
Roleta sweep: Cole Miller
100% rat guard sweep: Chris Cariaso


I could go on for hours.

While everyone certainly appreciates and hespects a knowledgeable poster like yourself, you could watch the tone a bit



A casual fan certainly couldn’t name 5 moves like that and not everyone is a hardcore. Even hardcores who don’t train or read up much won’t know every move in the book.

Also… any gifs of the fancier sweeps?

 

[Forceof1]

Knee lift front snap kick- Machida (courtesy of Steven Segal)

 

[WallNStallToeStomper]

anthony Pettis is my favorite fighter and his signature run off the cage showtime attacks are my favorite all time i know his Career is almost over but he was one of the best ever to do it in his prime that's just my opinion

 

[CroCopsLHK]

Threads like this genuinely baffle me. If you watch the sport of MMA, you should be able to name no less than 50 of these moves. And I'm not joking. Here's a short list of takedowns only:

Osoto gari: Zabit Magomedsharipov
O goshi: Jason Saggo
Osoto gake: Yushin Okami
Ouchi gari: Randy Couture
Polish throw: Da Un Jung
High tree top single: Tatiana Suarez
Low single: Kazushi Sakuraba
Crackdown single: Jake Shields
Head outside single to inside sweep: Michinori Tanaka
Run the pipe single: Glover Teixeira / Marat Balaev

Let's keep going. Here's a short list of signature sweeps:

Cyborg's Tornado sweep: Tom Breese
Underhook single leg from half guard: Demian Maia
John Wayne Sweep: Mansour Barnoui
Situp sweep: Godofredo Pepey
X guard sweep: Wilson Reis
Homer simpson sweep: Nogueira brothers
Roleta sweep: Cole Miller
100% rat guard sweep: Chris Cariaso


I could go on for hours.

You said threads like this baffle you and write a hundred characters

I love it. I know it's a generic subject I was just amazed at Edson last minute. When he hit that wheel kick I had such deja vu

 

[HJ Penn]

Paul Harris heel hook.

 

[BowserJr]

Mirko's LHK
Ronda's Armbar
Khabib's leg grapevine
Sakuraba's single leg
GSP's blast double and superman punch
Joanna's front kick
Fedor's overhand (standing and on the ground)
Wanderlei's knees from the plum
DC's high crotch throw + Clinch uppercuts

Rickson armbar
Machida step in kick
JBJ fake td to spinning elbow
Paul Harris heel hook
Shamrock heel hook
Overeem guillotine and uber knee
Pettis show time kick
Wonderboy some kick
H bomb

 

[GhettoGhost504]

Siver and Koreshkov back kick each others feet and it could end us.

What if Alexander Schlemenko was in on that too?

 

[HHJ]

I don't know what it's called, but when Jon Jones holds his fingers inches from your eyes.

He's not poking you (yet) but he's making you think you're about to get poked so it breaks your focus.

Never seen another fighter do that.

his long reach makes it possible