{"id":41180,"date":"2025-08-03T20:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T20:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/41180\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T20:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T20:48:08","slug":"video-amateur-fighter-does-max-holloway-point-down-gets-brutally-knocked-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/41180\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Amateur fighter does Max Holloway point down, gets brutally knocked out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was not what Max Holloway had in mind when he started pointing to the mat in the closing seconds of his fights. However, it&#8217;s obviously the risk.<\/p>\n<p>At American Kombat Alliance 48 on Saturday in Marksville, La., an amateur welterweight contest between Byron Walker and Glen Norman ended seconds after a point to the canvas took place.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Norman did his best to copy UFC BMF champ Holloway, but it was Walker who got the big highlight.<\/p>\n<p>He landed a vicious shot that put Norman out on his feet. Walker then stepped in with two more huge punches and Norman was left motionless on the very spot he pointed to.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the replay of the incredible sequence below (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WCK252660\/status\/1951821936671023216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1951821936671023216%7Ctwgr%5E719116924454f43a14acb25b96a2ae69f8e5dd0c%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mmafighting.com%2F2025%2F8%2F2%2F24479824%2Fvideo-max-holloway-point-down-challenge-horribly-wrong-amateur-fighter-leading-to-brutal-knockout\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:X;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">X<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/mma\/2025\/08\/03\/video-fighter-does-max-holloway-point-down-brutally-knocked-out\/85501107007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Video: Fighter does Max Holloway point down, gets brutally knocked out;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Video: Fighter does Max Holloway point down, gets brutally knocked out<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This was not what Max Holloway had in mind when he started pointing to the mat in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[36251,64,63,36250,786,36249,1395,785,85],"class_list":["post-41180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-american-kombat-alliance","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-byron-walker","tag-fighting","tag-glen-norman","tag-max-holloway","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41180","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=41180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}