Melvin Manhoef scores biggest win of career with first round TKO of Kazuo Misaki
Dutch knockout specialist Melvin Manhoef scored the most impressive victory of his thirty plus fight career at “Dynamite!! 2009” as the human wrecking ball caught the highly rated middleweight Kazuo Misaki with a hailstorm of punches on the feet for the TKO victory in the very first round.
The bout which was first reported by FiveOuncesofPain.com, took place from the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan as part of the New Years Eve DREAM/Sengoku/K-1 promoted event that aired live stateside on HDNet.
After a brief feeling out process it was Manhoef who came storming in with a series of vicious strikes to the chin of Misaki that dropped “The Hitman” to the canvas in a heap, forcing the referee to call a halt to the beating just minutes into the opening round.
The victory over Misaki is without a doubt the biggest win of the heavy handed Manhoef’s career, who is widely regarded to be the most ferocious knockout artist the game has seen with twenty three of his twenty-four victories being finished by either KO or TKO. Kazuo is a former PRIDE Welteweight Grand Prix Champion with previous victories over the likes of Ed Herman, Denis Kang, Joe Riggs, and most notably, Dan Henderson.
Manhoef, who recently inked a multi-fuight contract with Strikeforce, has gone 7-2 in his last nine bouts with knockout victories over Kazushi Sakuraba and Mark Hunt along the way.
Manhoef is expected to make his Strikeforce debut during the early portion of 2010, and while no possible opponents have been named at this time, Manhoef recently expressed a desire to face off with fellow slugger Robbie Lawler in a recent conversation with FiveOuncesofPain.com.
Cory Brady is the managing editor of FiveOuncesOfPain.com, along with being a regular feature writer with Ultimate MMA Magazine. You can follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/corybrady
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Can’t f**king wait to see Melvin in SF!!!! Him and Lawler already has 2010 Fight of the Year written all over it.
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Stopped early…period..Impressive, but very early.
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Yeah way too early, hardly the biggest win of his career.
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Think him and Lawler will bang but I don’t think it’s going to be fight of the year…
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Unless Lawler takes him down I see this fight going much like Lawler vs Spratt, when Lawler fights a superior striker/ not fighter as Lawler probably has better all around skills/ he gets koed or tkoed. I belive he was kicked hard enough by Spratt that it dislocated his hip.
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Im not impressed with his overall fight game but like previous comments Lawler has KO power but Melvin striking ablity is second to none..
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I don’t know why he waited so long to get it done.
As will Overeem, it’s time for Manhoef to face some more stiff competition. I look forward to it, even if he has no ground game.
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It is ridiculous to compare Overeem’s MMA opponents with Manhoef’s. Melvin always takes the fight!
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you can’t compare Melvin and Alistair.Melvin IS fighting in strikeforce in 2010.
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