My God this Shara “Bullet.”
Shara Magomedov kicked off the UFC 308 pay-per-view card with a bang, going to conflict with Armen Petrosyan on the ft en path to a wild double spinning backfist knockout blow within the second spherical (watch all of the highlights right here).
The KO earned “Bullet” a $50k efficiency of the night time bonus, and in keeping with Shara it’s one thing he’s been engaged on for some time.
“How do you even apply that?” Cormier requested him throughout their post-fight interview.
“Once I simply began Muay Thai, this was the very first thing I used to be proven by my older brother Mahat,” Magomedov mentioned by a translator. “I skilled it and skilled it and skilled it, however I might by no means land it. And right now I landed it, and it labored.”
“Now that is mine,” he declared. “I patent this shot. That is my shot now.”
The double spinning backfist was positively no out of the blue fluke. You may see Magomedov coaching the wild assault in the course of the UFC 308 open exercises. It simply goes to indicate you that any time you assume you’ve seen all the things in MMA, one thing new comes alongside … and it’s normally one thing from an outdated martial artwork.
On this case it’s Muay Thai, the place double spinning backfists aren’t frequent, however they aren’t exceptional both. A straight knockouts because of a spinning double backfist? These are uncommon. So fighters bear in mind: when you attempt it in MMA shifting ahead, you must give credit score to Shara.
