5 Times in MMA that David beat Goliath

#3 Daiju Takase vs Emmanuel Yarborough

Daiju Takase runs circles around Emmanuel Yarborough

Daiju Takase, the Japanese kick-boxer and MMA fighter best known for submitting Anderson ‘The Spider’ Silva way back in 2003, also holds the distinction of being the last MMA fighter to fight the gigantic American Sumo, the late-Emmanuel Yarborough.

Standing at 6’0” tall, Takase weighed around 183 pounds, fighting the 6’8” Yarborough who weighed in over 600 pounds; at Pride 3 in 1998.

In what was one of the most comical fights of all time, Takase spent a better part of two rounds (Round 1 in Pride was 10-minutes; following rounds would be 5-minutes each), running away from his Sumo opponent.

On several occasions, the Japanese kick-boxer would try and cut angles, tagging his opponent with darting straight-lefts and at one point, even a punch to the body that just bounced off of the American Sumo’s wobbling torso.

Finally, Takase ran out of patience and shot in for a single-leg takedown that Yarborough sprawled on. The Japanese fighter ended up on his back, with the giant walrus-like mountain of fat on top of him. Takase wriggled himself out from underneath him with all his might and proceeded to tag the giant with punches and hammer-fists from the bottom, eventually taking the Sumo’s back and pounding him out for the TKO victory.

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