Did Mark Hunt Throw The Showtime Kick First?


Take a look back to PRIDE 31 in February of 2006. Mark Hunt steps into the cage for his 6th professional fight against Yosuke Nishijima, riding a 3-fight win streak that has seen him defeat Dan Bobish, Wanderlei Silva, and Mirko Cro Cop.

Around a minute into the bout, Hunt grabs the rope and throws a jumping right head kick, which misses, but Hunt counters Nishijima with a left hook that lands hard, and drops Nishijima.

Skip to the 58 second mark for the kick.

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So what do you think PENNation? Was this the first version of Anthony Pettis’ famed ‘Showtime Kick’?

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