Knockout Of The year

The last knock out royler received was by Genki Sudo in may/22/2004 while that knockout happened on the ground, this was took the stands.

It was the quarterfinal bout, Norifumi Yamamoto took the lead in the “Knockout of the Year” race. On the receiving end was Royler Gracie .Both of these fighters came to the ring with a small army of people behind them; there was barely enough room to fit everybody in the corners.

First Round: Both fighters were being extremely cautious, circling each other .Royler Gracie threw some fairly feeble looking kicks while Yamamoto was looking for that one punch knockout. Towards the end of the first, Gracie jumped up on his standing opponent and apply a guillotine choke, but to no avail.

Second Round: it wasn’t very long till Yamamoto found the Knockout punch he was looking for. Gracie had his head up as he was coming in for a knee and Yamamoto threw a beautifully timed right hook that caught Royler right on the chin. The Brazilian collapsed backwards and landed flat on the mat.

Truly a vicious punch. Royler was out before he hit the floor. The doctors immediately jumped into the ring and the stretcher was brought out from underneath the ring apron, but in the end he awoke and was able to leave the ring under his own power.

When it was all said and done two of Japan’s most popular lightweight fighters, Genki Sudo and Norifumi Yamamoto, earned the right to fight on New Years Eve in the K-1 Dynamite show.