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2009 Bloody Elbow Reader Awards: Knockout of the Year

“You’re walking right towards the back hand, mate!  Get off his back hand!  It’s absolutely pathetic!”

A fighter may never receive advice as apropos as what Michael Bisping heard in between the first two rounds of his fight with Dan Henderson at UFC 100.  Bisping fought the first round like a NASCAR driver jaunting clockwise around the track.  Whether it was misguided machismo or a five minute brain fart is an exercise in semantics.  Even Andrei Arlovski and Herschel Walker put their Russian Roulette game on hold to comment on Bisping’s futility.

The second verse proved same as the first.  Bisping continued circling left, trapping himself General Cornwallis style.  Unfortunately for the Count, Henderson didn’t demand a simple exchange of swords as a sign of surrender.  Instead, he followed a leg kick feint with an overhand right.  Whch landed.  Well.

As Bisping’s toes curled, Henderson decided Bisping’s face was so much fun to punch, he wanted another crack at it.  Bisping would admit in later interviews that podiatrists had to separate his toes from his heels after Dan’s infamous Enola Gay show.

Full results after the break.

Knockout of the Year Voting
1st2nd3rdTotal
Henderson vs. Bisping2493150
Emelianenko vs. Arlovski95565
A. Silva vs. Griffin57349
Machida vs. Evans44436
Emelianenko vs. Rogers36235
Aldo vs. Swanson43433
Zaromskis vs. High24830
Hornbuckle vs. Gono2113
Smith vs. Le3312
Belfort vs. Lindland1211
Marquardt vs. Maia1710
Bowles vs. Torres127
Rogers vs. Arlovski217
Njokuani vs. Horodecki15
Zaromskis vs. Sakurai33
Duffee vs. Hague13
Marquardt vs. Gouveia11