I have this guy as my profile pic in several different sites, and after a while, I got to wondering just who he is. I looked him up, and turns out his name is Emmanuel Yarborough and evidently he SUCKS. In the video above, he is 6'8" tall, weighing in at just over 600 pounds, and he fights a guy who is 5'11" tall, weighing in at 200 pounds. He's nine inches taller and three times the weight, and he gets his ass kicked. The match was stopped after the first round because the smaller guy broke his hand from beating Yarborough so badly. Pwn that n00b.

I heard that after this match, he got the nickname, "The Giant Killer."

You can also see him in this funny commercial

I remember watching this fight, although I'd forgotten how bad it actually was. The smaller dude is Keith Hackney, a White Tiger Kenpo guy, and he sucks just a small amount less. Obviously, he'd never heard of leg kicks or proper punching. He broke his hand because he was swinging wild haymakers.

In fact, if you watch the end, Hackney won the fight by TKO (ref stoppage), it wasn't stopped because he broke his hand. The hand injury only stopped Hackney from continuing on in the tournament.

Ah, for the early days of the UFC, when fighters sucked and nobody knew better...

Ah karaidl, you mean that's not you in the pic? My disappointment is palpable.

The little guy is like a slippery, nimble eel compared to Emmanuel.

Oh no, that's me, Emmanuel just talks in the third person.

And yea, I knew the ref stopped the round. You can't even tell Keith broke his hand.

What's with that commentator? Sumooh? Judooh?

That was ufc 1 or 2 I believe....

Not all the fighters sucked back then though, but yeah, most of them.

Looks like the little guy got really tired from raining down those rights.

Bill, I think it's partly 'cause he should've put his opponent down after a couple shots, he wasn't aiming for the jaw like he should have been instead of getting some glancing blows on the top part of his skull.

The other part of it was the way he swung for his punches. Ground and pound, although it looks like just swinging to most people, is a specialized way of striking. Notice how Hackney is swinging his arm out far, haymaker-style? It should be cocked for a hook or gorilla-style reverse hammerfist rather than that arm-extended thing he was doing, and he should be dropping his shoulder and hips into each punch. I couldn't find any videos of GnP from side ride like in this fight, but check out this seminar with Fedor. Notice how he rears back, pops his shoulder and hip on the punching side up, then drops it as he punches? That movement makes up with body momentum what the shoulder whirl, hip twist, and leg drive do when doing standup striking. There's an analogous movement in striking from side ride, and although it's a skill most people don't notice, it makes all the difference in a fight.

Just goes to show how far MMA has come since these early brawls.

You know, I would never have taken you for a UFC fan, considering your profile pic is a kitten.

Kittens are deadly. Don't mess!

And yeah, I guess you could say I'm into MMA.

*kill

Permanently discarding this video - kill requested by submitter karaidl.