{"id":224962,"date":"2025-10-19T11:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T11:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/224962\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T11:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T11:04:07","slug":"violence-check-out-this-absolutely-insane-knockouts-you-missed-and-shouldnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/224962\/","title":{"rendered":"Violence! Check out this absolutely insane knockouts you missed (and shouldn\u2019t)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/regional-mma-news-results\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Regional mixed martial arts (MMA)<\/a> fuels the sport\u2019s heartbeat \u2014 almost every fighter climbing toward Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) or other top-tier promotions starts in small(er) promotions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">With that in mind, while everyone was focused on UFC Vancouver this past weekend (Sat., Oct. 18, 2025), several regional shows took place, and <a href=\"http:\/\/MMAMania.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MMAmania.com<\/a> will provide you with the awesome highlights you may have missed below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Something was in the water in Eckbolsheim, Bas-Rhin, France, because holy smokes\u2026there were some absolutely brutal knockouts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In the main event, massive underdog Jordan Zebo (9-1) took out one of the best fighters outside the UFC in Baysangur Chamsoudinov (9-1) for the Welterweight title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In the co-main event, Ares Bantamweight champion Aboubakar Younousov (8-0) may have punched his ticket to the UFC next year as he slept former UFC veteran Gustavo Lopez (16-9-1).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">To kick off ARES FC 35, Bilal Bakhouche-Chareuf (1-0) only needed 22 seconds to knock out Tomy Blanco (0-2) brutally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">PFL held another event in Africa (specifically, Kigali, Rwanda) this weekend, and the fighters had some violent finishes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Canada\u2019s Karam Henniene (6-0) went into enemy territory and knocked out his opponent, Boule Godogo (4-1), with an insane flying knee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The following knockout is probably one of the most vicious of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">On the prelims, Abdoullah Kane (4-1) absolutely melted Emmanuel Mukam (2-1) with a filthy head kick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Is it the year of the spinning elow? Because there was another one at OKTAGON 78, which took place in Cologne, Germany.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Must-watch fighter Marek Bartl (16-14) was the one who landed it on Kennedy Rayomba (6-6).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The legalization of 12-6 elbows has been a great thing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Heavyweight Patrick Vespaziani (6-2) stopped O. Ayodeji Kalejaiye (9-9) with them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The first amateur bout of OKTAGON\u2019s history went down yesterday, and the fight only lasted 19 seconds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Thunderstrike Fight League (TFL) held an event in Siedlce, Poland, and one knockout stole the show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Amir Susaev (1-0) landed a nasty spinning back kick knockout on Jamshed Navruzov (3-5).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Finally, Fury FC held an event on Friday in San Antonio, Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Top welterweight prospect Isaac Moreno (8-0) knocked out former UFC fighter Darian Weeks (9-5).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Boxing legend Floyd Mayweather was in attendance for his fighter Jasmine Montoya (2-1), whom he manages, and she turned heads by knocking out Alexandra Carlson (0-1).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For more regional MMA news and notes click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/regional-mma-news-results\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Regional mixed martial arts (MMA) fuels the sport\u2019s heartbeat \u2014 almost every fighter climbing toward Ultimate Fighting Championship&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,25627,85,14855],"class_list":["post-224962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-regional-mma-news-results","tag-sports","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224962","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=224962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}