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As I remember when watching K-1 along with Glaube Feitosa he had the best Brazilian kick but I can't seem to find a video of him doing it in any fights?
filho was a kyokushin guy wasnt he?
filho was a kyokushin guy wasnt he?
Francisco Filho didn't rely too much on high kicks when fighting in K-1
No wonder. Who needs kicks when your hands knock people dead?
This isn't on topic, but, since the TS' question has been answered (and since this thread is already basically turning into a Filho tribute thread ), I'm just going to rant: Joe Rogan said of Chuck Liddell that he had "dynamite in his hands," but whenever I think of that line, I think of Francisco Filho. That guy had scary power. It wouldn't even look like he was punching guys hard enough for them to notice and he'd be flat-lining them.
His KOs of Sam Greco (in like ten seconds) and Ernesto Hoost are insane, but his KO of Andy Hug in his K-1 debut is one of the most inexplicable and terrifying (terrifying precisely because inexplicable) things I've ever seen because the physics of it make no sense to me. Moving back, no wind-up, no hip rotation, barely even any shoulder torque - theoretically no power - and yet it looked like Andy got put down by a sniper.
People like Branko Cikatić and Mike Bernardo had huge power in their right hands, Jerome LeBanner was a monster with surprising power even in his jab (I love his first KO over Gary Goodridge), but I've never seen anything like Filho's early victories. All he had to do was touch you and it was like a fucking dim mak.
/rant.