Watch: MMA fighter fakes heart attack, match takes bizarre twist at the end
Under normal circumstances, any story that involves faking a heart attack almost by definition cannot get weirder.
Well, Johnathan Ivey just walked right up to common sense and told it, “Hold my beer.”
Ivey, as a Twitter description put it, faked a heart attack, dropped Travis Fulton, followed up with GNP (ground n’ pound)…”then decides he can’t punch his idol in the face anymore and taps out.”
https://twitter.com/Grabaka_Hitman/status/1013275694913159168
Barkeep? You can keep my beer, just fill the mug with whiskey.
Ivey, who has won just 41 of his 98 pro fights, was involved in the heavyweight main event at Colosseum Combat 45 in Indiana. His opponent, Fulton, had a 256-54-10 record in 320 career contests.
Ivey keeled over clutching his chest, looking as much like a fallen mook in one of those old mobster pictures doing an overwrought shot-to-death scene as a guy having an actual heart attack.
Then, when Fulton sensibly stepped forward to ensure his opponent was OK, in came the sucker punch.
With Fulton on the ground, Ivey threw a series of arm punches with no real leverage, none of which landed clean, and once the fighters broke and returned to their feet, Ivey — seemingly having convinced himself that he couldn’t actually hurt his opponent — tapped out.
Did Ivey punch himself out to the point where he was too tired to continue?
Was he scared out of his wits that Fulton, having lost the initiative only because he’d fallen for a ruse whose sole refuge was in audacity, would be on the warpath for the rest of the fight and do real damage to Ivey?
Or, as the tweet put it, was he just starstruck since Fulton is apparently his idol, as if he were an NBA player who dunked on LeBron James and then asked the coach to just take him out like “my work here is done”?
Faking a heart attack was the least bizarre part of this whole exchange.
Ivey has a reputation as being something of a clown prince of martial arts.
After all, this is the same Human Looney Tune who once somersaulted around while fighting the legendary Ken Shamrock.
"The Ironman" Travis Fulton (255-54-10, 1 NC) about to fight THE Johnathan Ivey right now. Yes, that Jonathan Ivey. This should be bad and hilarious. https://t.co/c45sruskNB pic.twitter.com/ufkLXucx2s
— caposa (@Grabaka_Hitman) July 1, 2018
Ivey is nuttier than the south end of a northbound squirrel, and the only question left stems from the fact that he’s not far from his 100th fight.
At this point, we can only hope he’s got something special in mind to mark the occasion.
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