Imagine you’re a UFC fighter, okay? When you knock someone out during a fight, you kinda expect to win the match, don’t you? Right. It’s how combat sports work. You knock out your opponent, you win, they lose. But apparently it doesn’t always work out like that. Just ask poor Anderson Silva. The Brazilian MMA fighter KO’d Brit scrapper Michael Bisping on Saturday night. But ended up losing…
It was UFC Fight Night 84 and we’re in the third round. Bisping’s won the first two on points. But Silva’s in the ascendancy in round three and lays a knockout blow to put Bisping down. A second or two before the bell. He walked away triumphant. But Bisping got up. The round was over. The stoppage hadn’t officially counted.
Then the UK fighter known as ‘The Count’ paid Silva pay by rallying and taking the victory via a unanimous points decision. It really was quite incredible. Check it out:
