Exhaustion might be a fighter’s most dangerous enemy inside the cage, and that perhaps hasn’t ever been more evident than in the bout between Alex Munster and Rudy Gunawan on Saturday at One Pride MMA Fight Night 42.
Not since Kimbo Slice’s encounter with “Dada 500” under the Bellator banner in February 2016 have we seen two fighters more gassed out in a fight. Munster (6-1) and Gunawan (9-2) were sucking wind badly by the time the second round hit in their welterweight fight at Studio ANTV in Jakarta, Indonesia, and it created one ridiculous scene.
The momentum shifted back-and-forth to an almost comical degree. Gunawan couldn’t even hold his hands up properly after the first five minutes, and it led to him eating some huge shots. Munster wasn’t in much better shape, though, and it led to him getting dropped and nearly stopped.
Unfortunately for Gunawan, he didn’t have nearly enough left in the tank, and Munster was able to take control back and finish the fight by TKO from a position that resembles something like your older sibling did to you as a kid.
The whole thing was absurd, and ONE Pride MMA posted the full fight replay for your enjoyment. Check it out above.
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If ‘SNL’ spoofed MMA, it might look like the second round of this fight
