Body slam is never used in UFC

[WARinsertname]

Rampage tried. But Bader had to go mess it up...

I was sitting there thinking at the time that Rampage shattered his shoulder.lol

 

[Reach4theSky]

I was sitting there thinking at the time that Rampage shattered his shoulder.lol

I thought Bader broke his neck..

 

[WARinsertname]

I thought Bader broke his neck..

Neck...collarbone...shoulder...Etc...

He just looked like he wasn't going to get out of it unscathed.

 

[Dead Kennedy]

 

[SeattleFightFan]

(Not UFC but...) How Fedor survived that megaslam and went on to recover and submit Randleman still astonishes me to this day.

AND....it was arguably the SECOND best slam of the night



But in the UFC, I think the early hughes’ ones were the best. Though F Shamrock ktfod someone once with a good ol fashioned body slam.

 

[superpunch]

It's just a waste of energy. If you can get a body slam, you could have just gotten a double. It also gives the other guy room to scramble for better position whereas a normal takedown guarantees you top position and a chance to hold him down.

Slams = MUCH lower percentage, MUCH more energy, and MUCH LESS control of position.

They're retarded.

Of course, in a real fight, a slam from a skilled wrestler might kill a guy, likely puts him into a coma, and definitely KOs him. The UFC isn't real fighting though. The UFC designed the Octagon with padded floors to limit wrestling's effectiveness.

 

[SeattleFightFan]

It's just a waste of energy. If you can get a body slam, you could have just gotten a double. It also gives the other guy room to scramble for better position whereas a normal takedown guarantees you top position and a chance to hold him down.

Slams = MUCH lower percentage, MUCH more energy, and MUCH LESS control of position.

They're retarded.

Of course, in a real fight, a slam from a skilled wrestler might kill a guy, likely puts him into a coma, and definitely KOs him. The UFC isn't real fighting though. The UFC designed the Octagon with padded floors to limit wrestling's effectiveness.

I believe you are correct. As the sport got homogenized, awesome but inefficient moves went more and more by the wayside.

The cost of professionalizing the sport.

Much earlier, many other moves got evolved out of MMA. Things that TMAs thought would work in a fight, but actually didn’t.

 

[ThunderL1ps]

This is the worst of the worst, as far as I know for damage done.

 

[HerpDerp]

You can’t even show me a gif of a body slam now

If a suplex counts as a body slam, then here's a total of three of them in one gif:

And here's another gif with yet another three:

 

[SeattleFightFan]

Last point, didnt Hughes “slam” (or really just kinda fall over and luckily and accidentally land on) Newton?

 

[chinarice]

AND....it was arguably the SECOND best slam of the night



But in the UFC, I think the early hughes’ ones were the best. Though F Shamrock ktfod someone once with a good ol fashioned body slam.

Igor Zinoviev and it essentially ended his career as he never fought again after that fight.

 

[Organic Damage]

There´s tons..

Yeah basically all from Cormier.

They do zero damage 99% of the time and waste a bunch of the intiator's energy for not much point value. It's a crowd-pleaser though.

 

[AndrewSUFC]

 

[Pious Augustus]

 

[PharoahHeight]

I think Rory got Nate with a good one

 

[Vil7]

Rampage tried. But Bader had to go mess it up...

Damn, he could have gotten his arm broken planting it like that.

 

[KeepItRealist]

Personally, I always wanted to see a DDT or Hurricanrana

 

[Paolo Delutis]

This is the worst of the worst, as far as I know for damage done.

Flawless victory and perfect technique I model all my double legs off of this video...

 

[HerpDerp]

They do zero damage 99% of the time and waste a bunch of the intiator's energy for not much point value. It's a crowd-pleaser though.

I agree, it seems like a very inefficient move to go for. I also think it's a difficult technique to practice with any real intensity due to the inherent risk of injuring your training partner, so that has something to do with it aswell.

I will say this though: slams of any type would immediately become absolutely devastating if the Octagon floor didn't have any sort of cushion to it.

 

[Deleted member 110072]

There´s tons..

I didn't notice previous but Cormier actually looks like he rocks Hendo badly at the start of all this.