Missed Fist: A kickboxer is knocked out with a roundhouse kick to the groin.

Welcome to the latest edition of Missed Fists. We shine a light on fights from around the world that have been overlooked in this hectic age of daily MMA shows.

We've never officially tallied up which finishing techniques are featured most often on Misdo Fist, but compared to the average major league show, there's an incredible amount of them on the local and international scene. I can confidently say that we'll see a head kick and a knee knockout. . Every week, two or three poor souls bring part of their foot into the dome and are wiped out.

What's sorely missing are matches that were decided by kicks to the groin (perhaps because they weren't “legal” or whatever), and this situation could be rectified for at least a week.

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Yuki Koza vs Hiroshi Nakamura

Video from RISE El Dorado 2024 in Tokyo of Yuki Koza landing a spin kick between the legs of Kang Nakamura to earn him a 3rd round TKO victory:

First of all, I personally agree with the official statement that the kick most likely connected to the inner thigh. Here's a look at it from another angle:

It stands to reason that this was a legal strike, right? That being said, I have a hard time believing that the spinning blow didn't catch at least some of Nakamura's twigs and berries, so giving him a knockout loss here seems unreasonably harsh. Again, everyone agrees that no contests are the worst and you don't want to take away someone's victory either.

Either way, if you take a second look at either angle, you'll agree that this is one hell of a visual. Because it's certainly possible that Koza connected sharply with his heel where he never wanted to receive a spin kick. If Nakamura wasn't faking or embellishing, this would be a prime candidate for the strangest and possibly worst KO loss of 2024.

The good news is that we also saw one of the best knockouts of 2024, when Ryunosuke Omori landed perhaps the fastest spinning backfist in human history.

I keep swearing this is a sped up clip, but it's not, Omori landed that bad guy in real time. He regained his balance, lowered his hand, and with a bang slammed the glove into Koyata Yamada's face. Instant KO.

Jorge Calbo vs. Quique Gonzalez
Uriel Uribe vs. Carlos Gomez
Alan Alexis Castro vs. Alejandro Villarreal

Viewer warning for this next set of clips! There's a little blood in the middle.

Jorge Calvo successfully defended his flyweight title against Quique Gonzalez at Lux Fight League 41 in Monterrey, Mexico, but he had to survive five nightmarish rounds.

The challenger was actually looking to take the first round with a flurry of late ground and pound before Calvo caught him with an elbow from below. That scraping shot alone was enough to crush Gonzalez. Terrible.

By the end of the fight, Matt was soaked in Gonzalez's blood and looked more like a demented slip-n-slide than the contraption two humans were supposed to be fighting against.

Calbo survived Gonzalez's strenuous efforts and won convincingly on the card (49-46 overall). But he's going to be thinking about this match for a while, I'm sure.

Here are some highlights from the battle.

Early on the card, Uriel Uribe delivered a perfectly timed Spartan kick to Carlos Gomez, securing the knockout in the final seconds of the fight.

Look at that, I just kicked him in the mud when he stood up.

And in the preliminary round, Alain Alexis Castro and Alejandro Villarreal decided to ignore the rules and have a classic “first to die loses” duel, which Castro won with flying colors.

Lux Fight League 41 is available for replay on UFC Fight Pass.

Marcelo Morelli vs. Sylvester Miller

At Strife Tube 4 in Legionowo, Poland, former Cage Warriors bantamweight title challenger Sylvester Miller was choked completely unconscious by relative unknown Marcelo Morelli. A huge upset occurred.

Depending on how you look at it, Morelli was either 1-3 or 3-3 going into this fight, but according to Sherdog, he had actually won a fight just five days before entering this fight. Any way you look at it, it's an impressive feat and another tough break for Miller.

The Polish standout made a memorable challenge to then-undefeated Cage Warriors bantamweight champion Jack Cartwright in 2021, and looked like he might suffer his first loss, but he didn't have to throw. It turned out that he was disqualified because he was unable to stop. headbutt. Since then, Miller is 2-4.

Free replays of Strife Tube 4 are available on YouTube.

Michele Martinoni vs. Raz Bring
Omiel Brown vs. Rafael Aronoff

Speaking of Cage Warriors (and those winning fighters whose initials are oddly enough MM), we're back in the land of Fight Pass with Michele Martinoni's incredible performance at Cage Warriors 167 in Manchester, England. Kudos to the knockout setup.

Martignoni rifled through body shots and feints to break through Raz Bring's defense, leaving him open for a baseball bat to the right hand that knocked him down. Both volume and precision!

It's a bit difficult to see, but equally impressive from a technical standpoint. Here, Omiel Brown nearly pops Rafael Aronoff's head off with a guillotine choke.

In fact, Brown won his first two professional fights by guillotine and hadn't scored a point since 2021 before putting Aronoff in a chokehold last weekend.

Anthony Drilich vs. Satoru Enomoto

I don't know if you've heard, but the Australian flyweights have some hands on deck.

At Eternal MMA 83 in Queensland, Australia (also available on UFC Fight Pass), Anthony Drilich crushed a charging Satoru Enomoto with an elbow to the jaw, then finished him off with a hammerfist. This was Dolilich's first defense of the 125-pound title and his fifth consecutive win.

Steve Arseg is already at the forefront of the Australian flyweight division, having won a title and a pay-per-view headliner slot after just four fights in his UFC career. Don't be surprised if his compatriot joins the roster soon.

Damian Jepecki vs. Jorge Esiava

At Fight Exclusive Night 53 in Lubin, Poland, we were treated to a good old-fashioned noggin rattle, courtesy of Damian Zepecki.

If this were a movie, Jorge Esiava would be yelling at the screen to lower his hand and move it to Rzepecki's abdomen to avoid straining Rzepecki's knee. Instead, he ducked his head for the match-ending blow, and Jebecki quickly realized there was no need to follow up.

Santiago Paiva vs. Rodrigo Rivoin

This week, in a world of baggy choke success, Santiago Paiva nixed Rodrigo Rivoin's best submission defense effort.

I think this is one of those fashionable holds that is sure to win if your opponent hasn't practiced defending, but if they have, it can have potentially disastrous consequences for the attacker. I understand that there is a gender. Here, things worked out well for Paiva, which resembled a human bear trap into which Levoin had the misfortune of wandering.

Until next week, remember everyone, don't be afraid to punch upward.

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