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#1 Fabricio Werdum vs Mark Hunt

Out striking a striking specialist, every grappler’s fantasy..

This fight marked one of the highest points in Fabricio Werdum's career and that is saying a lot, since we are talking about a man who had already submitted some of the all time heavyweight greats in Fedor Emelianenko, Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira and others.

But this was about to be a completely unexpected victory for Werdum and the result was nothing short of surprising.

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After being scheduled to fight the then heavyweight champion Cain Valasquez, Werdum prepared for him but Valasquez soon had to pull out due to an injury. This resulted in an interim heavyweight title match up between Fabricio Werdum and the heavy hitting striking specialist and former K-1 champion Mark Hunt.

After being rattled on more than one occasion by Mark Hunt in the first round, it seemed that as the fight would progress, it would become even more hard for Werdum to take down Mark Hunt and force his elite BJJ game on him. Instead, he would have to deal with Mark Hunt's barrage of power punches and the possibility of another walk off KO for the super samoan.

But Werdum and his coaches had a different game plan in mind. There are certain advantages that you enjoy if you are an outlier in one area of the game.

The panic reaction that a fighter would give out when someone like Werdum tries to take him down would be very different in constrast with just another wrestler trying to buy time with a takedown.

Werdum used this knowledge to his advantage. Threatening a take down, Werdum timed Hunt's head movement going down and timed a spectacular flying knee that dropped Hunt and allowed Werdum to finish off with blistering hammer fists.

This was a special victory for a grappler out striking and outsmarting a veteran striker and showed that when variables increase, the method of victory becomes even more mysterious and can catch anyone by surprise.

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