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Favorite MMA Signature moves? *POLL*

Best MMA signature move?

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Outside of the Von Flue choke, can you really say that these are "signature moves" since most of them were never repeated?
 
Hespectfully said:
The selection criteria was simple; moves that we hadn't seen yet. They didn't necessarily have to result in a finish.

Rampage power bomb is my fav in terms of sheer brutality and coolness. Minowa dropkick is easily the funniest. Multiple choices are allowed.

Let me know if there are any moves that I forgot to mention. Gifs are welcome and encouraged.

Let's vote.
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Dude why no gifs? I bet most people here don't know half the moves you mentioned.
 
almost voted showtime kick, then switched to chonan scissor move. both straight out of the matrix.
 
Needs more Genki Sudo:
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Hespectfully said:
The selection criteria was simple; moves that we hadn't seen yet. They didn't necessarily have to result in a finish.

Rampage power bomb is my fav in terms of sheer brutality and coolness. Minowa dropkick is easily the funniest. Multiple choices are allowed.

Let me know if there are any moves that I forgot to mention. Gifs are welcome and encouraged.

Let's vote.
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Machida's one for Karate Kid. It was amazing IMO and literally "from the movies".

Hughes power bomb from triangle was also a huge thing (at the time). Oh the back and forth on that one...... (he was by far my favorite fighter, so it was amazing).
 
Reminds me of the old cracked article Seanbaby wrote about MMA moves:
http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-9-most-creative-mma-attacks-ever/

Anderson Silva's Disco Assault
There was a time not long ago when Anderson Silva seemed untouchable. His opponents moved in slow motion compared to him. There was one notable exception, when he literally took the most strikes anyone had ever taken in a UFC bout, and then he won. Which means that besides being faster than everyone, he was also immune to face punches. Some asshole was definitely cheating when they made Anderson Silva.

Silva began to realize he was invincible. Each fight he became more and more playful, dancing and slipping around his opponents' attacks before finally knocking them out. And why not? Fighting doesn't always have to be serious. For example ...

In Silva's title defense against Chris Weidman, he started off with only dance moves and wiggles. This in itself isn't unusual for a first round. Most fighters like to feel out their opponent's range and timing before they attack. Watch the starting round of a traditional muay thai fight and you'd swear it was just two boys working up the courage to share a first kiss. However, Silva took it to the next level. It was five straight minutes of pointless bullying. I don't speak Portuguese, but I think his cornerman was screaming "Take his backpack! Pee on that queer's Dungeon Master Guide!"

After the bell, Silva went back to his corner and everyone watching thought the same thing: "Oh man, he humiliated that guy. NOW he's going to kill him!" Except Silva forgot the second step in dickish fighting -- the fighting. Silva came out and kept fucking dancing. No one had ever tried this. Could you beat a man using only the power of dance?

He ducked, slipped, and dodged punches while making no effort to throw attacks of his own. It had long ago stopped making sense as a fight strategy; he was only hoping to hurt Weidman's feelings. I'm obviously speaking with the wisdom of hindsight, but imagine two men meet on a road. One has a bag of punches, while the other has a bag of dodges. The first man is going to look stupid for a little while, but the second man is going to look stupid forever.

Was the Move Effective?

No. Not at all. While Silva pranced, Weidman was free to try anything. The end came when Weidman combined a right cross with a right hammer fist, because if his opponent is only going to shimmy, he might as well use some of his fifth grade wing chun. Silva dodged both strikes, but in doing so tucked his chin against his own chest. It had nowhere to go as Weidman's left hook crushed his jaw bone into his brain stem. Silva's Soul Train line suddenly transformed into a medical film on how knockouts work. If you're an alien producing a video on the non-genital weak points of humans, you're not going to top this.
 
rawknob said:
Outside of the Von Flue choke, can you really say that these are "signature moves" since most of them were never repeated?
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I'm finding out that there is a more strict definition of "signature move." I originally took it as something original that is linked to one fighter, and doesn't necessarily have to be repeated.

But in the MMA context, more people feel that it is something a fighter does often and is really good at. It's too late to change the thread title, but point taken.

If I could turn back time, I would have labeled the thread something like "favorite original move" or "moves that an MMA fighter invented."
 
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I believe Royce smothered someone with his Gi in an early UFC. I'm not ashamed to say that a fat guy tapped me in the same fashion when I was a white belt. A face full of sweaty gi is kinda like being water boarded.
 
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