Clean Knockouts, Skull Cracks

[Ambrose]

 

[DixieDestroyer]

I love it! WPWW!

Here's the GOAT (of) MMA whoopin' @$$...

 

[Hawkeye2]

 

[Hawkeye2]

 

[Hawkeye2]

Cro cop had some nice head kicks.
Here is his ko of pro-wrestler Alberto Del Rio.

 

[Rebajlo]

Here’s something a bit different. Steve MacIntyre of the Oilers demolished Calgary’s Raitis Ivanans with a couple of big right handers back in 2010. The beating effectively ended Ivanans’ NHL career. After being out with concussion for months the Latvian made one more NHL appearance the following season, at the end of which he was cut from the AHL’s Abbotsford Heat and returned to Europe.

 

[DixieDestroyer]

Here’s something a bit different. Steve MacIntyre of the Oilers demolished Calgary’s Raitis Ivanans with a couple of big right handers back in 2010. The beating effectively ended Ivanans’ NHL career. After being out with concussion for months the Latvian made one more NHL appearance the following season, at the end of which he was cut from the AHL’s Abbotsford Heat and returned to Europe.

Heavy hands & the blood lands! ;-)

 

[Rebajlo]

Dixie -

Hockey fights are a bit of a unique and somewhat under-appreciated art.

It all happens on skates. That alone requires a tonne of balance. Particularly when the participants grapple in an attempt to jersey each other while simultaneously trying to create an opportunity to unload punches.

In most cases, each fighter's non-dominant hand is constantly gripping his opponent’s jersey thus rendering any form of "standard" evasive-footwork based defence impossible. The combatants form a sort of coalescent mass which ensures the contest becomes a literal “toe to toe” slugfest. Slipping punches solely via head and shoulder movement allied with the rapid delivery of powerful, well-timed, and telling blows in an explosively short burst is all-important - as is the ability to absorb a few head shots.

Anyway, enough talk - let’s watch another hockey fight. Here’s a punch up from the previous (2015-2016) AHL season in which Daniel Maggio (San Antonio Rampage) knocked out Brian McGrattan (San Diego Gulls):

Incidentally, McGrattan clearly got the better of Maggio a couple of months later:

 

[DixieDestroyer]

I'd be tempted to head butt or eye gouge during a "hockey brawl"...assuming I could ice skate. ;-)

 

[Rebajlo]

I'd be tempted to head butt or eye gouge during a "hockey brawl"...assuming I could ice skate. ;-)

Dixie -

The rules of the game covering “fisticuffs” prohibit head butts and eye gouging as do the precepts of unwritten “fighting etiquette”. This, of course, does not, mean that such actions never occur.

In 2005, Dale Purinton (New York Rangers) was suspended for ten games for gouging Colton Orr (Boston Bruins) during - of all things - an exhibition match. The gouge can clearly be seen from 0:37 below:

Back in the “old days”, enforcers (or anyone else…) could get away with fighting far dirtier than their counterparts can today as the scope of conduct considered “acceptable” by both players and officials was infinitely broader.

One of the first names routinely mentioned in any discussion of all-time hockey brawlers is that of Dave “The Hammer” Schultz. Schultz ranks among the most celebrated - or infamous - goons of the sport. The fact that he was the designated enforcer of the Flyers’ “Broad Street Bullies”-era teams whose aggressive and dirty play has passed into legend is quite significant in itself.

Schultz’s enthusiastic willingness to take no-holds-barred violence much further than anyone else set him apart from his contemporaries. Not only did he routinely head butt opponents - he also often grabbed their hair. Now, hair pulling may sound homo or girlish (which, of course, it is…) but it was actually more common during the 1970s than one may think - probably due in large part to the hairstyles of the period.

Schultz would resort to head butting opponents if he was getting the worst of it, as he did here against Terry O’Reilly of the Boston Bruins in 1976:

The video below shows Schultz putting the Rangers’ Dale Rolfe through the mincer back in 1974:

The clip amply illustrates Schultz’s “no respect” approach to fighting - he punches Rolfe before the latter is ready, grabs his hair and sticks in a head butt. Significantly, Rolfe was not a fighter yet Schultz nevertheless mercilessly kept belting his plainly helpless victim for far longer than his enforcer role necessitated.

By the way, sorry for diverting this discussion away from its intended subject of fight sports. But keep in mind that despite the persistent efforts to eradicate it from hockey, fighting remains a sanctioned part of the game therefore the inclusion of on ice knockouts legitimately warrants inclusion…

 

[Rebajlo]

Here we have a spot of all-Negro action.

Ex-boxer Rocky Lockridge (whose sartorial style reminds one of an early 1980s pimp) is minding his own business when some drank-swilling, loud-mouthed, pronunciation-challenged bruvva decides to step up to the plate...

 

[The Hock]

Did this guy know this was Rocky Lockridge? Geez. And notice how Lockridge leads with a jab.

 

[Rebajlo]

Hock -

The other Negroes all appeared to be well aware of Lockridge’s identity. I’d say the drunken dope also knew but was too boozed up and too stupid (always a winning formula…) to realise that he was serving himself up for a knockout.

I liked how the loud mouth’s cap floated off his nappy head as Lockridge’s right cracked into his face. That and his sprawled feet clad in those ridiculous white trainers and socks. I’m still chuckling as I type…

For those of our members (and lurkers) who have never heard of Rocky Lockridge, here he is knocking out Roger Mayweather in 1984. Yes, that would be Floyd Mayweather Junior’s uncle…

Note the trademark Negro staccato posturing over a fallen opponent…

 

[Rebajlo]

Here's Irishman Andy Lee lamping out Carl Daniels:

Our boxing lads will doubtlessly know that Daniels was on the receiving end of another spectacular knockout back in 1995, this time by the fist of the Argentine Julio Cesar Vasquez:

 

[DixieDestroyer]

MMA legend Chuck "Iceman" Liddell's top 10 KO/TKOs...

 

[Ambrose]

Here at Caste, we all just facking LOVE it when this happens:

 

[sprintstar]

Speaking of head cracks, it is time for Arlovski to retire. Allowing himself to get ko'd for a paycheque by a bum who shouldn't be in the cage is disgusting.