KILLER FINISHES: KEOKI CYPRIANO [VIDEO]

Team Top Notch lightweight Keoki Cypriano brings fireworks all the way from Hawaii. Don’t blink when he’s in the cage because he can finish the fight in a flash.  Check out “Hawaii’s Bad Boy” as he faces Mark Sinclair at Total Fight Challenge 14. This is how you ground and pound.

Come watch Keoki Cypriano and other local fighters at Bellator 25 on August 19th at the Chicago Theatre.

VIDEO: BELLATOR’S TOP FINISHES

Bellator puts out a video of the Top Ten finishes from its first two seasons.  The third season will begin on Thursday August 14 at the Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, FL.

KILLER FINISHES: MINOWAMAN VS. IMANI LEE

Minowaman dominates the super-large Imani Lee. How awesome is the call by Michael “The Voice” Schiavello?

MIGUEL TORRES FLYING ARMBAR!

Peter Griffin prefers more of the ground and pound, but I’m certain he’d still be very pleased. Follow Miguel Torres on Twitter for more hilarity.

DAN HORNBUCKLE’S KIMURA AT BELLATOR 19

Dan Hornbuckle continues to thrill crowds with his exciting style of finishing fights. He had the legendary head kick KO of Akihiro Gono at Sengoku 9. He recently had another Killer Finish at Bellator 19, locking in a Kimura against Steve Carl.

That was Hornbuckle’s second submission victory of the tournament and now he moves on to the finals of the Bellator Welterweight tournament. Hornbuckle hails from Mahomet and got his start in local shows like TFC, Duneland Classic and Ironheart Crown.

PAT CURRAN KO’s MIKE RICCI AT BELLATOR XIV [VIDEO]

Bellator Fighting Championships gained national recognition in its first season by producing some amazing highlight reel finishes. Thursday night in Chicago, local fighter Pat Curran added to what is becoming Bellator’s signature: another ‘jump out of your seat’ ending. Curran won his Bellator debut with a thundering KO of Mike Ricci at the historic Chicago Theatre.

The end came at 3:01 into the first round as Curran improved to 10-3 and moves on to the semi-finals of the Bellator tourney.

KILLER FINISHES: KARAKHANYAN’S KNEES

Georgi Karakhanyan serves up three vicious knees to Bao Quach in the quarterfinal of the Bellator Featherweight Tournament. The last one sent Quach to the ground unconscious, and sends Karakhaynan on to the next round in the tournament.

KILLER FINISHES: KATSUMURA “NINJA CHOKE”

Some may call the finishing move in this “Killer Finish”  an “exotic” choke in the sense that many have not seen it before.  Shuichiro Katsumura upsets Masakatsu Ueda with what he calls a “Ninja Choke” to win Shooto’s featherweight belt at “The Way of Shooto 2: Like a Tiger, Like a Dragon.”

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KILLER FINISHES: PALHARES HEEL HOOK

Tomasz Drwal slipped and fell to the canvas on his first kick attempt in his fight against Rousimar Palhares at UFC 111. It would cost him a chance at winning, and perhaps keep him out of the cage for a while after Palhares secured a heel hook that he did not release after Drwal repeatedly tapped.

Initial x-rays found nothing broken in Drwal’s leg, but he will still have an MRI to reveal the full extent of the injury. Palhares was suspended for 90 days by the New Jersey state athletic commission for failing to release the hold. He claimed he was just doing as most fighters are instructed to do: wait until the ref stops the bout before letting of the hold.

KILLER FINISHES: COUTURE VS. OVEREEM

Check out what Valentijn Overeem does to Randy Couture back in 2001 at Rings: King of Kings. Couture had just gone to decision earlier in the night against Tsuyoshi Kosaka. Oddly enough, Overeem lost 10 of his next 12 fights.

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