Top 3 Flying Knee KOs in Recent History

Spencer Fisher over Matt Wiman
Norifumi “Kid” Yamamoto over Kazuyuki Miyata
James Irvin over Terry Martin

What are the top 3 for you?

I can only think of two, The Irvin/Martin and Fisher/Wiman flying knees, but I do remember the Bisping/Pointon knee. I can't remember if it was a KO or not, but it was amazing.

im not sure about the my top 3 best KO, but i most say they are so fun to watch

Yvel over Big Mo T
Yvel over Carlos Barreto
Yvel over Dennis Reed

Irvin over Martin is the one that stands out for me. If I remember right, Irvin was gassed after the first round and came out of nowhere with the flying knee in the first few seconds of round 2.

I don't think that Kid actually hurt him with the knee, it looked more like he just knocked him off balance and then knocked him out with the punch as he tried to stand up.

Anderson Silva on Carlos Newton was nice.

that's Kid's knee:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3061367341857829622&q=yamamoto+miyata&total=3&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1

the top 2 are deffinatly:

1; Fisher vs. Wiman
2: Irvin vs. Martin

not really sure about # 3

Although it wasn't a "Flying Knee" Diego Sanchez landed a huge knee(which dislodged a tooth) Against Karo Parysian(sp)

Michael bisping on ross pointer in TUF 3

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Posted by cmill21

Anderson Silva on Carlos Newton was nice.

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I was so sad when that happened, Newton had him covered up until then!

Anderson Silva's Khao loy on Carlos Newton was brutal, and Newton was doing so well too.

A great one that springs to mind is is Glaube Feitosa's Khao Loy that knocked Musashi out. It wasn't a particullarly graceful flying knee, but it's worth a mention because no one saw it coming from Feitosa, a karate fighter.

If you have not yet seen it, its at the end of this video

Glaube Feitosa Highlight


Pretty good vid too, lots of spectacular looking (but not very powerful) kicks.
Well edited, makes Glaube look like a good fighter, when really he isn't all that hot.

See Remy Bonjasky for more information on flying knees
more specififcally his fights with Ray Mercer, Cyril Abidi.

Oh and the Veron White fight. Best ******* KO ever. Bonjasky goes for a flying knee and White moves to in mid air Remy turns it into a flying kick and KO's White.

Christ I must be having a bad day, I can't believe I didnt mention the Cyril Abidi fight!

You can't have a thread about flying knees without Remy Bonjasky!

Other than the ones you've mentioned I love JZs brutal flying knee KO of Takaya.
It was beeeeeeeaaaaaaaaauuuuuuutiful !!!!
Just look at the replays... it's perfect.

What an amazing knee, thats just how I throw them, hands reaching out to hold the head in place and to pull it in a little bit. Simply beautiful. Very hard to block, even if your opponent gets his arms up, he will still feel it hard!

No one Mentioned David Loiseau!!!!!
Didnt you see UFC 53?
Sure it was the spinning back kick that killed Chainsaw, but throwing a flying knee right after is pretty bad ass.

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Posted by Mastodon2

What an amazing knee, thats just how I throw them, hands reaching out to hold the head in place and to pull it in a little bit. Simply beautiful. Very hard to block, even if your opponent gets his arms up, he will still feel it hard!

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Yeah and the set-up and the height of the knee makes it even more awesome. He switches levels as for a takedown, then sprints up and elevates himself pretty high before he lands the knee right on the chin of Takaya.

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Posted by themmadigest

that's Kid's knee:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3061367341857829622&q=yamamoto+miyata&total=3&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1

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I know... I've seen the fight before, and I still say he looks conscious and trying to stand up as kid punches him in the head. You really can't see where exactly it connects in that angle because his right knee is extended blocking the view. It looks to me like he's still conscious when he hit the ground. I really think it was the punch afterwards that won the fight.

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Posted by Mastodon2

Anderson Silva's Khao loy on Carlos Newton was brutal, and Newton was doing so well too.

A great one that springs to mind is is Glaube Feitosa's Khao Loy that knocked Musashi out. It wasn't a particullarly graceful flying knee, but it's worth a mention because no one saw it coming from Feitosa, a karate fighter.

If you have not yet seen it, its at the end of this video

Glaube Feitosa Highlight


Pretty good vid too, lots of spectacular looking (but not very powerful) kicks.
Well edited, makes Glaube look like a good fighter, when really he isn't all that hot.

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that looks like a thai kick to me. they do that flipping thing on kicks. pretty wicked how he landed some of these.

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Posted by chris91301

that looks like a thai kick to me. they do that flipping thing on kicks. pretty wicked how he landed some of these.

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I can assure you that Glaube is a Karate fighter, he trained in Kyokushin karate. The Muay Thai arsenal does inlcude that same kick, but it is in no way a typical Muay Thai kick, I've never seen a Thai boxer do it, I only know that the Thai's use it too because I used it in sparring and my Master commented on it. Glaube hits mostly with the top of his foot too, whereas I use my shin for it.

As for saying "They do that whipping thing on kicks", I'd have to pretty much disagree with that, being that I'm a Thai boxer myself, and we rarely use whipping kicks like Glaube, as overall they just arent as effective for causing damage or breaking the defence of our opponents. Sometimes we will use the overhead whipping motion that Glaube favours, and sometimes we will whip out on leg kicks, but 99% of the time Thai boxers use a straight, stiff leg, and roll the hips to create massive power. Whipping the kick is less powerful than a straight leg and rotating hips.

This is what a Thai kick looks like, not to be confused with the karate style of kicking, which is along the lines of pointing the knee at the target, then flicking the lower leg out to hit it.

Yodsaenklai showing us how its done!


And just incase you didnt see the flying knee that Glaube used, you probably wernt watching the video very well, he lands it about 3:47 in the video.

Silvas knees (in the clinch) on Franklin were brutal

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Posted by Mastodon2

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Posted by chris91301

that looks like a thai kick to me. they do that flipping thing on kicks. pretty wicked how he landed some of these.

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I can assure you that Glaube is a Karate fighter, he trained in Kyokushin karate. The Muay Thai arsenal does inlcude that same kick, but it is in no way a typical Muay Thai kick, I've never seen a Thai boxer do it, I only know that the Thai's use it too because I used it in sparring and my Master commented on it. Glaube hits mostly with the top of his foot too, whereas I use my shin for it.

As for saying "They do that whipping thing on kicks", I'd have to pretty much disagree with that, being that I'm a Thai boxer myself, and we rarely use whipping kicks like Glaube, as overall they just arent as effective for causing damage or breaking the defence of our opponents. Sometimes we will use the overhead whipping motion that Glaube favours, and sometimes we will whip out on leg kicks, but 99% of the time Thai boxers use a straight, stiff leg, and roll the hips to create massive power. Whipping the kick is less powerful than a straight leg and rotating hips.

This is what a Thai kick looks like, not to be confused with the karate style of kicking, which is along the lines of pointing the knee at the target, then flicking the lower leg out to hit it.

Yodsaenklai showing us how its done!


And just incase you didnt see the flying knee that Glaube used, you probably wernt watching the video very well, he lands it about 3:47 in the video.

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i've done karate for a long time (kenpo karate). at least in this style of karate kicks do not come up the way Glaube was doing. In Thai from what i have seen is they raise their legs (traditional old school thai) and then whip them. In karate kicks look like they do in the video you posted. But of course this may possibly vary from studio to studio, from sensei to sensei as each one has a style preference and thats what their students learn.

In that last video where that guy does kicks they seem to come up from groupd up in almost a 45 angle which I think would run him into hitting lots of eblows? Or am I missing something?

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Posted by Mastodon2

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Posted by chris91301

that looks like a thai kick to me. they do that flipping thing on kicks. pretty wicked how he landed some of these.

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I can assure you that Glaube is a Karate fighter, he trained in Kyokushin karate. The Muay Thai arsenal does inlcude that same kick, but it is in no way a typical Muay Thai kick, I've never seen a Thai boxer do it, I only know that the Thai's use it too because I used it in sparring and my Master commented on it. Glaube hits mostly with the top of his foot too, whereas I use my shin for it.

As for saying "They do that whipping thing on kicks", I'd have to pretty much disagree with that, being that I'm a Thai boxer myself, and we rarely use whipping kicks like Glaube, as overall they just arent as effective for causing damage or breaking the defence of our opponents. Sometimes we will use the overhead whipping motion that Glaube favours, and sometimes we will whip out on leg kicks, but 99% of the time Thai boxers use a straight, stiff leg, and roll the hips to create massive power. Whipping the kick is less powerful than a straight leg and rotating hips.

This is what a Thai kick looks like, not to be confused with the karate style of kicking, which is along the lines of pointing the knee at the target, then flicking the lower leg out to hit it.

Yodsaenklai showing us how its done!


And just incase you didnt see the flying knee that Glaube used, you probably wernt watching the video very well, he lands it about 3:47 in the video.

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I'm a former Karate guy and I can definitely vouch for what you're saying. I didn't do Kyokushin but I've done Enshin Do and Kenpo Karate(those kicks aren't use that much in Kenpo). That Glaube video was bad ass.

Joachin hansen has some of the best, and the it makes it so much better because he just walks away after he connects the knee, because he knows they are out, but he doesnt even check, just walks awy, classic..

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Posted by juanez13

Joachin hansen has some of the best, and the it makes it so much better because he just walks away after he connects the knee, because he knows they are out, but he doesnt even check, just walks awy, classic..

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As Bas would say... "look at him just walk away.... That's just ice-cold"

Joachim needs to get signed to the UFC stat

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Posted by chris91301


i've done karate for a long time (kenpo karate). at least in this style of karate kicks do not come up the way Glaube was doing. In Thai from what i have seen is they raise their legs (traditional old school thai) and then whip them. In karate kicks look like they do in the video you posted. But of course this may possibly vary from studio to studio, from sensei to sensei as each one has a style preference and thats what their students learn.

In that last video where that guy does kicks they seem to come up from groupd up in almost a 45 angle which I think would run him into hitting lots of eblows? Or am I missing something?

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Glaube is from a Kyokushin background, so his kicks will differ from yours. Obviously that one overhead kick that Glaube uses is no completely representative of his arsenal of kicks, nor is it representative of the Karate arsenal of kicks.

When you say "old school Thai", I assume you are referring to Muay Boran ("ancient boxing"), and the man I train under is well schooled in Muay Boran as well as more traditional and contemporary Muay Thai; having watched him and been taught my kicking technique from him, I can assure you Muay Thai kicks are not typically whipping. While there are whipping kicks, they are a minority and are hardly ever seen. The video of Yodseanklai is the definition of the Thai kick. Thats how I was taught to do it, thats how every other Thai boxer I've seen does it. Thats just how it is.

As for hitting elbows, first of all if you dont throw the kick that hard and you hit the elbow it doesnt matter, it wont hurt much. If you are throwing a power kick, then you will probably have set it up with a punch, leg kick, etc, so the elbow will have moved out of the way. However, even if a Thai boxer hits the elbow, it won't slow him down much, we condition our shins to shrug off that kind of punishment. The shin is incredibly hard and pain resistant, even before proper conditioning. If you are kicking with your foot and you hit the elbow, you'll feel it, and you will probably break your foot, but if a conditioned shin hits the elbow, then it doesnt really matter.

my favorite is probably the flying knee that loiseau gave to chainsaw Charles McCarthy

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Posted by Mastodon2

Glaube is from a Kyokushin background, so his kicks will differ from yours. Obviously that one overhead kick that Glaube uses is no completely representative of his arsenal of kicks, nor is it representative of the Karate arsenal of kicks.

When you say "old school Thai", I assume you are referring to Muay Boran ("ancient boxing"), and the man I train under is well schooled in Muay Boran as well as more traditional and contemporary Muay Thai; having watched him and been taught my kicking technique from him, I can assure you Muay Thai kicks are not typically whipping. While there are whipping kicks, they are a minority and are hardly ever seen. The video of Yodseanklai is the definition of the Thai kick. Thats how I was taught to do it, thats how every other Thai boxer I've seen does it. Thats just how it is.

As for hitting elbows, first of all if you dont throw the kick that hard and you hit the elbow it doesnt matter, it wont hurt much. If you are throwing a power kick, then you will probably have set it up with a punch, leg kick, etc, so the elbow will have moved out of the way. However, even if a Thai boxer hits the elbow, it won't slow him down much, we condition our shins to shrug off that kind of punishment. The shin is incredibly hard and pain resistant, even before proper conditioning. If you are kicking with your foot and you hit the elbow, you'll feel it, and you will probably break your foot, but if a conditioned shin hits the elbow, then it doesnt really matter.

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Thanks, thats good to know and keep in mind.