Craziest head kick KO in the history of combat sports

Bad idea. Extremely low percentage.
Low percentage doesnt mean he is going to get hurt by trying it. Low percentage moves are fun!

Until you end up on your ass.
Yeah, or you get the wildest KO ever in combat sports. No one had ever heard of him until he tried that low percentage move. Now he is all over the news and ESPN and he made a fuck ton of bonus money. He probably made more bonus money last night than he has made in purses over his entire career.
 
Bad idea. Extremely low percentage.
Low percentage doesnt mean he is going to get hurt by trying it. Low percentage moves are fun!

Until you end up on your ass.
Yeah, or you get the wildest KO ever in combat sports. No one had ever heard of him until he tried that low percentage move. Now he is all over the news and ESPN and he made a fuck ton of bonus money. He probably made more bonus money last night than he has made in purses over his entire career.

Proof?
 
Bad idea. Extremely low percentage.
Low percentage doesnt mean he is going to get hurt by trying it. Low percentage moves are fun!

Until you end up on your ass.
Yeah, or you get the wildest KO ever in combat sports. No one had ever heard of him until he tried that low percentage move. Now he is all over the news and ESPN and he made a fuck ton of bonus money. He probably made more bonus money last night than he has made in purses over his entire career.

Proof?
Its impossible to prove (which is why i said "probably"), but i can make a good case for that claim.

Dana gives undisclosed "discretionary bonuses", on top of the 4 fight bonuses he hands out every event. Ive heard of discretionary bonuses ranging anywhere between $5,000 to over $100,000. Shane Carwin, for example, LOST to Brock Lesnar and was given a "life changing bonus backstage in the six figures", according to Brendan Shaub.

Joaquin Buckley's contract only paid $10,000 to place and a $10,000 win bonus. This was his second fight in the UFC and he lost his first fight, so he had only made $10,000 in the UFC before last nights fight. Before joining the UFC he had 6 fights, which were in lesser organizations that dont pay as well as the UFC. How much he was paid is hard to say, but (if he was lucky) he probably earned on average a $5,000 fight purse for each of his fights prior to the UFC.

Last night Buckley made $73,500 in publicly disclosed earnings ($50,000 of that is for the "fight of the night" bonus). There is no doubt whatsoever that Dana threw him some serious extra bonus money backstage. Its safe to say that he cleared 100k last night.
 
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Bad idea. Extremely low percentage.
Low percentage doesnt mean he is going to get hurt by trying it. Low percentage moves are fun!

Until you end up on your ass.
Yeah, or you get the wildest KO ever in combat sports. No one had ever heard of him until he tried that low percentage move. Now he is all over the news and ESPN and he made a fuck ton of bonus money. He probably made more bonus money last night than he has made in purses over his entire career.

Proof?
Ah, here we go. He had even more fights than i thought, so he made less than a $5,000 fight purse before joining the UFC. His career disclosed earnings (AKA fight purse earnings) are $50,000. He made $50,000 alone from fight of the night bonus last night, so if Dana gave him even $1 backstage, he made more in bonus money than the fight purses from all his previous fights.

 
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Ah, here we go. He had even more fights than i thought, so he made less than a $5,000 fight purse before joining the UFC. ...


Why the hell would anyone put themselves through that shit for such chump change? The time, the training, the damage. Gotta be a serious lack of options. There's a reason why the best professional boxers have always been those at the lowest rungs of the socio-economic ladder. Gotta admire the skills though.
 

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