UFC has come a long way from its brutal early days of last-man-standing tournaments with almost no rules. Now there is much more structure and regulation to protect the fighters with the incorporation of weight classes, expanded rules, and five-minute rounds, three rounds for non-title fights and five for title fights, which takes away the human cockfighting element that agitated critics like Senator John McCain.
Presented on Ultimate Knockout 6 are 35 knockouts that occurred between UFC 62: Liddell vs. Sobral (August 26, 2006) and UFC Fight Night 11 (September 19, 2007). Both of those fights took place in Las Vegas, which was where many of the UFC fights were held at the time (counting UFC 62, all but two of the previous 13 matches were held there), but during that timeframe UFC began to expand all over America, taking the show on the road to Texas, Ohio, and Florida. It even made its way back across the pond to the U.K. with events held in England and Ireland; something it hadn’t done since 2002 with UFC 38 in London.
There are a lot of impressive, powerful fighters in this sport, one I could not imagine participating in. What is most intriguing is witnessing people like Chuck “The Ice Man” Liddell and Keith “The King of Mean” Jardine who are so dominant in one fight get knocked silly the next. The most amazing finish in the collection is Scott Smith vs. Pete Sell from the finale of the reality series Ultimate Fighter 4. One fighter who looks to be finished because of hurt ribs lands a final punch that knocks out his hard-charging opponent.
As of the writing of this review, Middleweight Champion Anderson “The Spider” Silva is the only fighter on this DVD who can be seen winning his championship and, after four defenses, still currently retains it. Other current champions who fight on this disc are Welterweight George St Pierre, Light Heavyweight “Sugar” Rashad Evans, and Heavyweight (Interim) Frank Mir.
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1 - Jordan Richardson
Cro Cop is absolutely devastating.
2 - El Bicho
A day later and I still shuttered at the thought as I was writing.