You win some and you lose some, but sometimes the losses come in embarrassing fashion — just ask MMA fighter Clovis Hancock, who had a moment to forget Saturday night at LFA 7.
Hancock was facing off against Nikolay Veretennikov at Arena Theater in Houston, Texas, when he tried off a flashy technique.
Unfortunately for Hancock, things went terribly, terribly wrong.
Hancock’s capoeira kick attempt was nowhere close to connecting and his momentum sent him tumbling across the cage. Just … watch.
Watch out, Barboza #LFA7 pic.twitter.com/wDUZxW7XiO
— caposa (@Grabaka_Hitman) March 25, 2017
That was clearly a less than ideal situation.
But if that wasn’t embarrassing enough for Hancock, in the final round of the fight he learned what a well-placed kick can actually do when Veretennikov fed him his shin resulting in a knockout.
#NikolayVeretennikov with the HEAD KICK #KO at #LFA7!#MMA 🇰🇿#Kazakhstan@AXSTVFights
Николай Веретенников pic.twitter.com/U4coTpry3t— LFA (@LFAfighting) March 25, 2017
Sometimes these things happen in MMA… but at least he wasn’t this guy:
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