Missed Fists: 55-year-old fighter attacked by fan after insulting crowd at Prime Show MMA 11

Welcome to the latest edition of Missed Fists where we shine a light on fights from across the globe that may have been overlooked in these hectic times where it seems like there’s an MMA show every other day.

Yes, the 2025 calendar year is back in full swing and that can only mean one thing: Chaos.

A big thank you to Jed Meshew for taking the Missed Fist reins while I took a brief holiday break and now it’s time to get back to business. And lucky me, we had prime (no pun intended) Polish freakshow MMA to check out this past weekend, so here we go!

(Big thanks as always to @Barrelelapierna for their weekly lists of the best KOs and submissions, and to @Grabaka_Hitman for uploading many of the clips you see here. Give them a follow and chip in on Patreon if you can.)

Dominik Zadora vs. Jacek Muranski and Krzysztof Ryta
Patryk Akinyeye vs. Jaroslaw Sobonkiewicz

One thing I’ve always said fans love about MMA is that it feels like there’s less of a barrier between them and the fighters they love to watch. Maybe it’s because the business boomed along with the advent of social media, but for better or worse, a convo with your favorite pro martial artist is often just a tweet or an awkward open Q&A question away from becoming a reality.

In Jacek Muranski’s case, that barrier became a little too thin at a Prime MMA Show in Ostrow Wielkopolski.

After coming out on the losing end of a 2-on-1 fight, the 55-year-old Muranski—lovingly nicknamed “Hannibal Lecter”—went on a verbal tirade against the audience in which he called them “małpy,” which translates to “monkeys” in English.

Certainly not a nice thing to call anyone, but perhaps the good Dr. Lecter was just caught up in the heat of the moment. Also, he’s 55 and doesn’t appear to have much patience for these darn whippersnappers!

Suffice to say, one onlooker didn’t take too kindly to Muranski’s insults and he waited for him to make his way into the crowd before taking a shot at ol’ Hannibal. He ended up mixing it up with a security guard more than Muranski, but at least he let out his frustrations on someone. Seriously though, don’t be this fan.

Somehow, that wasn’t the dumbest thing to happen at this event.

I present to you the gymnastic stylings of Jaroslaw Sobonkiewicz.

No words.

Shinebaatar Bat-Erdene vs. Kai Yoshida
Rukiya Mukai vs. Katsuya Fujiwara
Toranosuke Iwata vs. Ryuki Kobayashi

From GLADIATOR 029 in Osaka, Japan, this headscissor choke-out from Shinebaatar Bat-Erdene also left us pretty speechless.

People who know way more about grappling than me, do they even train you for these scenarios? You spend so much of a fight worrying about armbars and leglocks and triangle chokes, and then you get taken out by a move that almost looks like a video game glitch. A very, very, very effective glitch, in this case.

Rukiya Mukai had his opponent Katsuya Fujiwara glitching against the fence after winning a clean exchange and then going HAM with follow-up punches.

My guy, I think you got him.

That took just 23 seconds and when I tell you the action was coming fast and furious here, I do not exaggerate. Earlier on the show, Toranosuke Iwata met Ryuki Kobayashi in a one-round amateur bout and while that short duration is meant to minimize the damage to your average non-pro, Iwata still found time to bludgeon Kobayashi with this knee.

You can watch a free replay of GLADIATOR 029 on YouTube.

Abdelkrim Zouad vs. Tayo Odunjo
Maysara Mohamed vs. Jake Bron

This week’s “Call An Ambulance, But Not For Me” awards goes to Abdelkrim Zouad, who battled back from early trouble to straight-up flatten Tayo Odunjo at a UAE Warriors show in Abu Dhabi on Thursday.

Odunjo pops Zouad with a counter left right to the temple, a shot that has ended countless fighters’ nights. He manages a few hard hammerfists too, but Zouad’s ground defense helps him get back into it. He then turns the tables with a sweet takedown.

Now it’s Odunjo’s turn to survive and while he shows great heart getting off of his back, that just leads to him getting slumped on the mat.

Joining him there was Jake Bron, who ate a spinning back elbow from Maysara Mohamed that teed his head right up for a bonus shot.

Hector Saenz vs. Malik Lewis
Damion Oranday vs. Cristian Lopez

First of all, Hector Saenz, “El Gato Borracho” (“The Drunk Cat”), amazing nickname.

Secondly, amazing kimura!

Huge props to Saenz for striking gold out of nowhere and not just settling for trying to win a position. He found an opening to grab the arm, awkward as the position was, and then worked hard for that submission.

This next submission was definitely not out of nowhere and actually incredibly uncomfortable to watch as it unfolded.

Cristian Lopez wasn’t leaving Houston without a fresh arm to add to his collection. His opponent Damion Oranday has heart that you can’t teach, but there’s also submission defense that you can teach and he could probably use more of that.

Oranday fell to 1-10 with the loss, all of those Ls coming by way of knockout or submission and none occurring past the second round. According to Sherdog, he once KO’d a guy in 55 seconds, which you have to assume was an accident.

Fury FC 100 is available for replay on UFC Fight Pass.

Enkh-Orgil Baatarkhuu vs. Aaron Canarte

It was a bad weekend to be an arm, that’s for sure.

From a ONE Fight Night event in Bangkok, Enkh-Orgil Baatarkhuu went all out for this kimura and opponent Aaron Canarte wasn’t giving up until he absolutely had to. And he definitely waited for the last second, because that was one Baatarkhuu twitch away from a trip to the hospital.

And at an earlier ONE event that same day, Dzhabir Dzhabrailov destroyed Khusan Urakov with a brutal sequence of knockout slams, so make sure you watch that if you haven’t already.

Rafael do Nascimento vs. Brandon Altomare

Back to Fight Pass for a pair of can’t-miss highlights from LFA 199 in Lemoore, Calif.

Rafael do Nascimento caught Brandon Altomare with what could have been a life-changing calf slicer. Like, that’s a year of your career gone if you don’t tap out immediately.

Fortunately for Altomare, he recognized the danger instantly, though not before his leg got twisted up something fierce. Hopefully, no injury, because at the very least, ouchie.

We assume you’ve already watched Erick Visconde’s insane spinning back elbow knockout of Ary Farias, but if you haven’t, do so now. Then check out another beautiful angle of the early KO of the Year candidate below.

If you know of a recent fight or event that you think may have been overlooked, or a promotion that could use some attention, please let us know on X — @AlexanderKLee — using the hashtag #MissedFists.