Carlos Prates knockout punch will hang-out your nightmares

Carlos Prates acquired a $50,000 bonus for a sickening knockout of Li Jingliang at UFC 305 on Saturday.

But when the bonus-picking members of the UFC brass had seen a photograph of the knockout second by Colin Murty in Perth, Australia, earlier than their choice, they could have been inclined to offer Prates much more – or ship slightly one thing Murty’s means.

The shooter

Profession photojournalist Murty, who was taking pictures for Getty Photographs by way of Agence France-Presse, has an intensive resume stretching again greater than 40 years, however you received’t discover a variety of MMA on his CV. That’s what is going to make those that respect good images – notably good sports activities images – love this shot much more.

(And in case you’re tempted to say, “Oh, he most likely simply has a extremely good digicam,” then please go away. He does. In fact he does. And he additionally has the sort of eye and instincts that may result in an insane picture like this. A lot of the remainder of us don’t, irrespective of how a lot our iPhones deceive us #SupportRealPhotographers.)

The combat

China’s Li Jingliang (in pink) is knocked out by Brazil’s Carlos Prates at UFC 305 in Perth on August 18, 2024. (Photograph by COLIN MURTY / AFP) / — IMAGE RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE – STRICTLY NO COMMERCIAL USE — (Photograph by COLIN MURTY/AFP by way of Getty Photographs)

Prates opened up the pay-per-view principal card with a shocking walk-off knockout of Jingliang late within the second spherical. It was the primary time “The Leech” had been knocked out in a profession relationship again 17 years.

The consequence

See the face-melting second Prates shut Jingliang’s lights out under.

China’s Li Jingliang (in pink) is knocked out by Brazil’s Carlos Prates of their males’s welterweight division occasion of the Final Preventing Championship (UFC) 305 on the Perth Area in Perth on August 18, 2024. (Photograph by COLIN MURTY / AFP) / — IMAGE RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE – STRICTLY NO COMMERCIAL USE — (Photograph by COLIN MURTY/AFP by way of Getty Photographs)

Let’s take a look on the replay

Li Jingliang (in pink) is knocked out by Brazil’s Carlos Prates at UFC 305 in Perth on August 18, 2024. (Photograph by COLIN MURTY / AFP) / — IMAGE RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE – STRICTLY NO COMMERCIAL USE — (Photograph by COLIN MURTY/AFP by way of Getty Photographs)

Absurd, is it not?

Prates’ win was his tenth straight – the previous 9 of which have been by knockout, together with his first three within the UFC.

Extra images

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