Marcus Aurelio’s Delivers Capoeira Kick For Unreal MMA KO
Total Pro Sports - It seems as though every time we think we have seen the MMA KO of the year, someone else comes around the following week and gives us an even better candidate for the prestigious award. It started of with Yahir Reyes' spinning backfist. Then we witnessed Chad Leonhardt's vicious knee at Bellator IX, but that was soon to be outdone by the the flying knee of Jose Aldo at WEC 41. And only a few weeks ago, Dan Henderson connected on an overhand right knocking Michael Bisping out cold.
Although those were all impressive knockouts, I think it is safe to say they have been outdone by the remarkable creativity, and unorthodox style of Marcus "Lelo" Aurelio. They call it Capoeira, a Brazilian style of martial arts, but whatever it was, you can bet Keegan Marshall never wants to see it again.
As the bell rings, Aurelio opens with some wild spinning crescent kicks, and a few other moves that are rarely seen in MMA fights. Then he attempts consecutive Capoeira kicks, the first one missing but the second connecting squarely on the chin of Marshall, knocking him out. Who knew all that jumping around would actually work? Too bad it didn't happen the same way in the movie Bloodsport.
Here is the kick.
And in case you were wondering, here is the clip from Bloodsport.
Hat Tip video - [Chicago MMA]
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wow that was amazing
Sit down kid!!!!
Capowhatevera is for Latino losers, he got lucky thats all..,Tthis isnt a martial art so much as stupid latino dancing posing as a serious martial art.. Pit the best at this sorry pathetic excuse for combat training against the best of any real martial art like karate or kung fu or hell even thai chi and the crapoeira will be exposed for the sorry excuse it is (like everything else latino).
what’s the deal with the tribute to the monkey fighter? that was lame.
That not always work, because it depend on how storng your enemy.
I miss the era when martial arts weren’t full of all these MMA douchebags like Rob up there. Buddy, who cares? You know what wins? Fitness and heart. Its the person, not the art. Go away.
Rob, your pretty much an idiot, the internet has vasts amounts of information. You could of used it to learn that Capoeira has nothing to do with Latinos. It was developed in Brazil, and last I checked Brazilians are not Latinos. So do us all a favor, and get your high school degree, learn to do some fact checking, and leave your idiotic Latino slandering on KKK message boards were you and your kind could all masterbate to each others hate posts.
well the idiocy of ppl is astounding. rob stop being racist against latinos, because if you don’t know romans were latinos and in form of italians still are, greeks are latinos spanish are latinos and yes brazilians are latinos as they talk portuguese which derives from latin.a latino correctly is someone who talks a language derivate of latin. inform yourself it’s good !!!
damn rob whats with the racism.do you even fight.if not who are you to even judge shit.im sure he trains more styles of fighting than the one plus lets see you get in there with him
That bloodsport clip is not capoeira…
WOW he might have got snapped in half dancing around like that against anyone half decent but there’s no denying the clip looks damn good.
Rob got owned by a Capoerista.
damn that was crazy !!
For the record there, rob, there are lots of martial arts such Capoeira and MANY forms of Kung Fu that were disguised as dance because people of the countries they were formed in were not allowed to practice fighting, so they “danced.”
Bruce Lee preached on the benefits of dancing, and practiced dancing himself.
In Muay Thai, one of the foundations of Mixed Martial Arts, formal matches in Thailand are preceded by a RITUAL DANCE.
Many practitioners of Capoeira are also practitioners of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, one of the most dominent martial arts, being as they are both part of Brazilian Culture.
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, according to your standards, would also be considered “Latino”
If you’re gonna be racist with martial arts, you really don’t have a leg to stand on, as you’re probably gonna be hard pressed to find a Martial Art of American origin, you stupid bigot.
Also, for all the doubters, this guy was in PRIDE where he won several fights, he now fights in UFC, granted his record is rough, but he’s not exclusively Capoeira. He’s not an amateur, he has beaten MANY renowned fighters.
His record is 18 wins and 7 losses
Brendo,
Marcus “Lelo” Aurelio is not Marcus Aurélio Martins. This guy has never fought in Pride or UFC. Marcus Aurélio Martins aka ‘Maximus’ has fought in UFC and Pride.
HA! Rob your a loser and you don’t know it!
First forgive me, I have poor English. Im a capoeira teacher with the first instructor belt (blue, 10 years), and I practice thai box in the Hungarian Top Team.
Capoeira is mislead everyone who see it. That’s was the goal of the inventors, the african slaves in brasil. So If you think this is just a dance you can understand what the slave keepers let them practise this. Unfortunatelly this dance used against them effectively in the revolts.
In the real, the capoeira is praciced like the other arts, for example the thai box. In the thai box there is the sparing, where you can’t use full force in your attacks. This is the same thing in the capoeira, called jogo (playing). If you kick too hard in the sparing you may be forwarded to a harder oponent by your trainer. There is no enough place to explane the whole thing, but you can imagine how the capoeira works this way. Plus, the capoeira is very similar to the father of muai thai what is the muai thai chaya. The same kicks used in both. The weakness is the capoeira is the hand system.
Just a few MMA fighter who has capoeira background: Jean Silva (Cage Rage champ.), Mauritio Shogun Rua (UFC), Andre Gusmao (IFL champ.), Anderson Silva – UFC (he just started to learn)
Gracie Magazine December: in the 80′ a lots of capoeira player went to learn BJJ, becouse in that time the capoeira has been, too brutal…