Cung Le hạ đo ván Rich Franklin với cú đấm Thôi Sơn tại Macao. Nov. 10-2012
[B]Cung Le delivers dramatic knockout in first UFC card on Chinese soil[/B]
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[I]Cung Le, left, hits Rich Franklin during their middleweight Ultimate Fighting Championship match at the Venetian Macao in Macau on Saturday, Nov. 10, 2012. Le won by a knockout in the first round.[/I]
[color=red]CỜ VÀNG 3 SỌC ĐỎ [/color]- mang trên người của vơ sĩ Lê Cung (San Jose, California) trên phần đất của Tàu cộng (xem video trận đấu dưới đây)
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Cung Le doesn’t know how much longer he’ll fight in the UFC.
The 40-year-old middleweight, however, made sure fans will watch at least a snippet of his fights for years to come. Le secured a lifelong place in the highlight packages Saturday morning with a first-round knockout of Rich Franklin in the main event of UFC Macau.
[B]Le knocked the 38-year-old former [I]middleweight champion [/I]unconscious with an overhand right at 2:17 of the first round.[/B]“Lucky punch,” Le said while celebrating the biggest win of his career.
Cung Lê finishes with vicious one-punch knockout at UFC Macau
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But it was so much more than that. Le’s strike combined precision, power and perfect technique.
Franklin’s downfall started when he lowered his hands and kept his head stationary while firing a leg kick into Le’s thigh. Le cocked his hips and blasted forward with a right hand that landed square on Franklin’s chin.
Franklin went out cold right away and crashed face-first on the mat.
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[I]Le floored Franklin with an overhead right at 2:17 of the first round.[/I]
“When I hit him, I felt a little jolt in my elbow,” Le said. “It’s just an odd feeling. I don’t remember what happened. I was just so happy. All the blood went to my head and I got a little dizzy.”
The upset — sports books tabbed Le as a 3-to-1 underdog — marked Le’s second straight victory. He’s 2-1 since moving over from Strikeforce, where he once held the middleweight championship, with no plans on stopping for now.
“I love to do martial arts,” Le said. “I love to compete. If I can do it as long as I live, I’d do it, but I know my clock is ticking.”
Franklin sounded like he had a more immediate decision to make about his fighting future. This bout marked his first at 185 pounds in nearly five years.
Franklin dropped back down to middleweight from light heavyweight with hopes of making one last title run before he retired. The loss to Le makes it extremely unlikely that he could get back into championship contention.
“I’ll have to go home, sit down with my coaches and make an intelligent decision,” Franklin said of what’s next for him.
He’s gone 3-4, alternating wins and losses in every fight, since 2009. But Franklin can rest easy knowing his place in history is locked up, as he went from teaching high school math to winning a title seven years ago when the UFC started to rise to prominence.
Le took a step in establishing his own legacy in the UFC’s first Chinese card Saturday. After a few minutes had passed and he was out of the octagon, Le started to give himself more credit. He changed “lucky” to a more flattering adjective.
“It was a money punch,” Le said.
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