{"id":252956,"date":"2010-01-30T22:48:59","date_gmt":"2010-01-31T03:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,yhoo:20050301:mma,article,yhoo-ept_sports_mma_experts-216658:1"},"modified":"2010-01-30T22:48:59","modified_gmt":"2010-01-31T03:48:59","slug":"one-legged-lawler-knocks-manhoef-stiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/252956","title":{"rendered":"One-legged Lawler knocks Manhoef stiff"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In one of the more bizarre fights in recent MMA history, Robbie Lawler, who appeared to have seriously injured his right leg, drilled Melvin Manhoef with a short right followed by a left as the Dutchman was falling to the mat (3:55 mark). <\/p>\n

Manhoef was out cold even though he seemed to out-land Lawler 30-to-1 (officially CompuStrike had it Manhoef 27-3<\/em>) over the course of three-plus minutes. Jorge Ortiz saved the downed opponent at 3:33, as Manhoef wasn’t even moving at that point.  <\/p>\n

Lawler showed zero offense and allowed Manhoef to tee off on his lead leg. He was limping badly and his leg was being kicked into the air. <\/p>\n

"It’s sore now but not bad enough where I couldn’t plant and twist, and throw a a nice hard punch," Lawler told Cagewriter. "I was limping
\nduring the fight. He was definitely tearing my leg up. He’s a K-1 caliber guy. He’s really good and really
\nexplosive. He goes out there and looks to inflict pain." <\/p>\n

Just the before the magical punch, Lawler’s leg went flying again, but he came across with the big right and down went Manhoef.  <\/p>\n

"I feel really good. This guy is a killer," said Lawler, who admitted Manhoef was putting a beating on his leg. "I knew I would have a chance to catch him. His hand seems to drop when he goes to finish somebody."  <\/p>\n

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Lawler said he was hurt but never thought about quitting.\n<\/p>\n

"It’s not
\nsomething I want to do. I feel like I should go down on my shield. I just
\nthought if I could lure him in and get him close I could land some
\npunches."
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\nThis was a much-needed win for Lawler (19-5), a former EliteXC middleweight champ. He was upset by Jake Shields in June and his reputation suffered. Manhoef (24-6) is a vicious striker but he’s one-dimensional, and yet Lawler entered the fight as a minus-180 underdog. <\/p>\n

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In one of the more bizarre fights in recent MMA history, Robbie Lawler, who appeared to have seriously injured his right leg, drilled Melvin Manhoef with a short right followed by a left as the Dutchman was falling to the mat (3:55 mark). Manhoef was out cold even though he seemed to out-land Lawler 30-to-1 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4012,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4012"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}