including Ngannou<\/a>, in the past. He\u2019s also worked quite a bit with current UFC Heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall, who generally does well to train with the best big men Europe has to offer. In a recent video, Verhoeven showed off the benefits of all these years of cross training at MMA gyms by shocking the champ with a double leg takedown!<\/p>\n\u201cSurprised the champ [Tom Aspinall] while kickboxing with my takedown skils,\u201d Verhoeven wrote in the caption, accompanied by a laughing emoji. In the video itself, Verhoeven can be heard yelling \u201cSave this footage\u201d immediately after his successful shot.<\/p>\n
Clearly, this is a bit of tongue-in-cheek posting. By Verhoeven\u2019s own admission, the two were kickboxing sparring when he flipped the script on Aspinall with his wall-side double leg. When wrestling in full boxing gloves, it\u2019s pretty much over once the position is secured, so Aspinall had little choice but to tip over. All of that is to say: don\u2019t read too deeply into this clip as evidence of weakness in Aspinall\u2019s takedown defense.<\/p>\n
Think the French kickboxing also tries to surprise the Englishman with a double leg?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rico Verhoeven is a bad man. He\u2019s not just a kickboxer, however. Verhoeven actually holds a 1-0 record…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,94467,40762,785,85,1396],"class_list":["post-137290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-glory-k-1-kickboxing-news-results","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}