Best Knee KO of all time?

[jeff7b9]

Sandhagen knee was perfect full extension, perfect placement, stiff as a board

If Frankie wasn't so loved this would probably be damn close to the top of the list.

Also I think it was no crowd, which affects the response to it whether people are willing to admit it or not.

 

[jeff7b9]

For what it's worth, the most memorable knee, for me, was a non-KO. It was Anderson Silva's brutal knee to Rich Franklin's nose while he had him trapped in the Thai clinch. It was horrible.

Speaking of brutal damage from a knee:




Credit: Vicente Luque

 

[fjodor]

Pablo Garza had a good one:

 

[IloveTHIS]

Aldo flatlining Mendes?

sure if you completely ignore the fact Aldo blatantly cheated a second before that to pull it off

 

[Nobru]

I remember a photo from Swanson head with a hole after that knee. Ugly shit.

 

[Benoitthegr8]

That must be Joachim Hansen vs Masakazu Imanari back in Pride 2005



Do you have other suggestions?

Prime Hellboy was a force, I’d have to nominate the Reem as he had several fight ending knees that literally flatlined the opposition.

 

[Bobby Boulders]

The only answer. Was scrolling through for the opportunity to accuse literally everyone of being noobs, should have known better.

 

[Nobru]

Barboza also has a beautiful one over Dariush, but im lazy to find gifs

 

[CutStryker]

MVP and
Masvidal

Come to mind

 

[Xuh]

 

[Pepy]

saw this one live and thought the guy died on the spot

 

[Taric]

James Irvin/Terry Martin
Every other answer is wrong.

 

[Exarch01]

I've always enjoyed this one, but admittedly I don't like Aoki:

 

[jeff7b9]

Crazy how similar this is to Askren vs Masvidal...

Just a different amount of attention which made the latter go completey viral.

Jose Aldo in WEC was a hurricane of beautiful violence. And his ground and pound was LETHAL, just an absolute death sentence. The way he pounded out Michael Thomas Brown and Manny Gamburyan was brutal, plus the Faber leg murder and the Cub ko... early Aldo was a beast.

WEC was awesome.

 

[YoyoDS17]

While my first thought was Masvidal/Askren, you can't deny the brutality (and impact on the division) of this one:

Hell yeah!

 

[otis604]

I clicked this thread to post Hellboy gifs, but I'm late.

Here's a great recent one

Everything in this GIF is beautiful.

DJ's poise, defense, speed, timing. The punch, the knee, the walk off. The way Moraes crumbles. The ref's wave-off.

GOAT!

 

[El Fernas]

So brutal that didnt really landed on the head, it was on the neck/side and still got Askren KTFO'd stiff, like one of the worst KO's i have ever seen, makes me wonder what would had happened if he lands on the center of Askren's face/forehead, MVP was able to break Cyborg Santos skull with what i think was less force.

 

[Spath]

For what it's worth, the most memorable knee, for me, was a non-KO. It was Anderson Silva's brutal knee to Rich Franklin's nose while he had him trapped in the Thai clinch. It was horrible.

I think it was this fight when rewatching that my friend said ”that’s why I’ll never compete”. Full power muay thai knee to the nose, horrible

Speaking of brutal damage from a knee:

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Credit:.Santiago Ponzinibio

That was Luque! How tough is Mike Perry?

Barboza also has a beautiful one over Dariush, but im lazy to find gifs

I gotchu!

beautiful timing and explosiveness.

Here’s another one from Barboza, he still has got some good ones left!

 

[Gamer2k4]

I clicked this thread to post Hellboy gifs, but I'm late.

Here's a great recent one

Everything in this GIF is beautiful.

DJ's poise, defense, speed, timing. The punch, the knee, the walk off. The way Moraes crumbles. The ref's wave-off.

Did that knee even land? It's hard to tell from that gif.

 

[sonofjay817]

Pablo Garza had a good one:

That's someone cut from a different cloth right there. Rich Franklin pretty much quit because of the knee to his nose and no one blamed him, but you're absolutely right. Mike Perry sustained even more damage and soldiered right on. I can't conceive of having that level of damage and continuing to fight.