10 unbelievably creative moments in MMA

From cartwheel knockouts to sacred capoeira rituals
From cartwheel knockouts to sacred capoeira rituals

#8 Anderson Silva’s elbow knockout

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The prancing
The prancing "Spider"

Known and revered as an archetypal character inside the demonic octagon structure, Anderson Silva does like to play around every now and then. Usually seen prancing around like Muhammad Ali, the Brazilian wizard came up with some reflex-action wizardry in his match against Tony Fryklund.

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After avoiding and successfully countering most of Tony’s attacks and launching knee strikes, Silva decided that he had had enough of playing around. He then proceeded to land a clean reverse-elbow strike which knocked Fryklund out. Silva cited Ong Bak for the influence!

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