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Steven Seagal helped Anderson Silva with KO front kick
yahoo sports ^ | 2-7-11 | Maggie Hendricks

Posted on 02/06/2011 5:11:51 PM PST by WOBBLY BOB

Action film star Steven Seagal accompanied UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva to the Octagon at UFC 126 on Saturday night before Silva knocked Vitor Belfort out with a highlight reel front kick. Seagal was not just there for star power. According to Silva, he learned the kick from Seagal.

"Steven Seagal helped me perfect that kick. That was a kick we were working on before I stepped in," Silva said through a translator at the post-fight press conference. "This was a kick that I trained a lot."

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Sports
KEYWORDS: kick; knockout; mma; seagal; silva; ufc

1 posted on 02/06/2011 5:11:59 PM PST by WOBBLY BOB
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To: WOBBLY BOB

I’m surprised Seagal can still lift his legs.


2 posted on 02/06/2011 5:14:43 PM PST by ReneeLynn (Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it's the new black. Mmm mmm mmm.)
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To: WOBBLY BOB
I call it BS. That's not Aikido, it's a more of a Muay Thai kick than anything else. But I'm totally surprised that Belfort didn't see it coming though

3 posted on 02/06/2011 5:17:08 PM PST by mewykwistmas ("Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. ")
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To: WOBBLY BOB

maybe somebody can teach SS how to run. he swishes like a little b!tch.


4 posted on 02/06/2011 5:19:35 PM PST by paddles ("The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." Tacitus)
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To: mewykwistmas

can’t stand Silva, complete ass, but he’s awesome.


5 posted on 02/06/2011 5:21:32 PM PST by WOBBLY BOB ( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

Wonder how’d he do against a .45.


6 posted on 02/06/2011 5:30:49 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

I like him too, a lot of his anger must come from UFC. In most sports he’d be set for life given his victories, but in UFC, by the time he pays trainers and managers, I doubt it. Dana White is a pr*ck


7 posted on 02/06/2011 5:34:23 PM PST by mewykwistmas ("Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. ")
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To: WOBBLY BOB

Silva’s KO was impressive, but performance of the night has to go to Jon Jones, he will be the next UFC LHW Champion, and I’m a huge Shogun fan from his Pride FC days.


8 posted on 02/06/2011 5:37:11 PM PST by ConservativeTeen (Proud Right Wing Extremist)
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To: driftdiver

Segal is probably better with a .45 than anyone in UFC.


9 posted on 02/06/2011 5:51:09 PM PST by WOBBLY BOB ( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
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To: WOBBLY BOB
Seagal should have helped Anderson Cooper with his kick. :)
10 posted on 02/06/2011 5:57:33 PM PST by Mr. Jeeves ( "The right to offend is far more important than any right not to be offended." - Rowan Atkinson)
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To: mewykwistmas

or Tae Kwon Leap..BOOT TO THE HEAD!!


11 posted on 02/06/2011 6:03:47 PM PST by jakerobins
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To: mewykwistmas
But I'm totally surprised that Belfort didn't see it coming though

That's the only way a kick like that works. A kick like that is a huge commitment. If the opponent sees it, you're pretty much done for.

12 posted on 02/06/2011 7:17:36 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Judas Iscariot - the first social justice advocate. John 12:3-6)
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To: Jeff Chandler

leg sweep


13 posted on 02/06/2011 7:46:26 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously..... You won't live through it anyway.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

“That’s the only way a kick like that works. A kick like that is a huge commitment. If the opponent sees it, you’re pretty much done for. “


and that’s why we barely see any :) . Probably Belfort assumed that Silva isn’t that dumb to do that. So Silva definitely gambled against a man of Belfort’s caliber, but you can’t argue with results.

Now Silva’s opponents have one more thing to worry about, as if they didn’t have enough!


14 posted on 02/06/2011 7:47:15 PM PST by mewykwistmas ("Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. ")
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To: Vendome
leg sweep

leg break

15 posted on 02/06/2011 8:21:11 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Judas Iscariot - the first social justice advocate. John 12:3-6)
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To: mewykwistmas

I just looked at Silva’s Wiki page. One of his major skills is Muay Thai.

Belfort probably trained against Muay Thai fighters (Star Wars, LOL?!), and if you look at the way that kick devlops, it starts out looking like a low Muay Thai kick with a lot of thigh and knee behind it before it turns Korean. That’s probably why he was able to sneak it in.


16 posted on 02/06/2011 8:28:28 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Judas Iscariot - the first social justice advocate. John 12:3-6)
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To: mewykwistmas
Looks more like a “dead leg” kick”,very little chambering. It comes from below the line of sight. The preferred target is the groin but what ever works. Seagal is a major BS artist. Google his interaction action with stuntman Gene Lebell.
His record with the women in his life is basically a low life a*****e who is in love with his own reflection IMO
17 posted on 02/06/2011 8:55:16 PM PST by Polynikes (Haakkaa Paalle)
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