{"id":232881,"date":"2017-04-11T09:18:31","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T16:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=232881"},"modified":"2017-04-11T09:18:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T16:18:31","slug":"video-stephen-thompson-scores-incredible-knockout-in-karate-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/video-stephen-thompson-scores-incredible-knockout-in-karate-match\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO | Stephen Thompson scores incredible knockout in kickboxing match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SoaTheHulk\/videos\/1308152085887395\/<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no secret that UFC welterweight <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/replay-stephen-thompson-tkos-johny-hendricks\/\">Stephen Thompson possesses some of the best striking in the entire UFC<\/a> given his Karate background. Thompson won numerous International Kickboxing Federation (IKR) championships in the early 2000s. In addition, Thompson never lost a match, going a perfect 37-0 throughout the course of his kickboxing career.<\/p>\n<p>When Thompson entered the UFC, he did so with a professional MMA record of 5-0. In his debut fight against Dan Stittgen, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/free-fight-stephen-thompson-makes-impressive-ufc-debut\/\">Thompson picked up a highlight reel KO win as he landed a perfectly placed head kick on Stittgen<\/a> that put the MMA vet to sleep.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"730\" height=\"379\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Stephen-Thompson.png\" alt=\"Stephen Thompson\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-226035\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Stephen-Thompson.png 730w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Stephen-Thompson-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Stephen-Thompson-585x304.png 585w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Stephen-Thompson-390x202.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the video above, you can see Thompson pick up an impressive KO win from back in his kickboxing days!<\/p>\n<p>Thompson of course is coming off a failed bid at the UFC welterweight title, which saw him controversially drop a decision to Tyron Woodley  in the pair&#8217;s highly anticipated rematch. <\/p>\n<p>Despite the pair&#8217;s first fight being a draw, and the rematch not going Wonderboy&#8217;s way, he is committed to earning himself a trilogy fight with Tyron Woodley:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI feel I can go out there and I know I can beat him. I mean just in the last two fights, I know if I put forth just a little bit more effort and actually go out there and just do what I know I can do, just fight, you know, I know I can beat him. I know I can do it. And the fans do too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, you\u2019re out there being cautious, but sometimes you gotta grit your teeth, bite down on that mouthpiece and go. And I didn\u2019t do that in the last fight. And that\u2019s something that I know if I go out there and do, then I\u2019ll ended up winning. But the fight happened twice and I\u2019ll fight who I gotta fight next and we\u2019ll do it again.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"730\" height=\"380\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Stephen-Thompson-Tyron-Woodley.png\" alt=\"UFC 209\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-226037\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Stephen-Thompson-Tyron-Woodley.png 730w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Stephen-Thompson-Tyron-Woodley-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Stephen-Thompson-Tyron-Woodley-585x305.png 585w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Stephen-Thompson-Tyron-Woodley-390x203.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/>on<\/p>\n<p>This article first appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\">BJPenn.com<\/a> on 4\/11\/2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SoaTheHulk\/videos\/1308152085887395\/ It&#8217;s no secret that UFC welterweight Stephen Thompson possesses some of the best striking in the entire UFC given his Karate background. Thompson won numerous International Kickboxing Federation (IKR) championships in the early 2000s. In addition, Thompson never lost a match, going a perfect 37-0 throughout the course of his kickboxing career. When Thompson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":232886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10132,2682],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>VIDEO | Stephen Thompson scores incredible knockout in kickboxing match | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UFC welterweight Stephen Thomspon picks up an incredible KO back in his kickboxing days in this throwback video footage from over 10 years ago.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/video-stephen-thompson-scores-incredible-knockout-in-karate-match\/\" \/>\n<meta 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