{"id":44446,"date":"2025-08-04T11:28:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T11:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/44446\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T11:28:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T11:28:06","slug":"fighter-does-max-holloway-point-down-gets-brutally-knocked-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/44446\/","title":{"rendered":"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>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\">X<\/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":44447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[76,49,48,641,4441,4225,1262,4440,1698,14476,1296,638,2034,44,1333,2042,82,865],"class_list":["post-44446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-arts","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-holloway","tag-martial","tag-martial-arts","tag-max","tag-max-holloway","tag-mixed","tag-mixed-martial-arts","tag-mma","tag-neutral","tag-news","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-sports","tag-sports-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}