Those who witnessed the fight between Japan's Ikuhisa "Minowaman" Minowa and Swedish rookie Goran "Wolf" Jettingstad saw a shocking finisher in the ring.
The fight, held in Tokyo on Saturday, April 5, 2014, ended with a serious injury to Jettingstad, whose leg was twisted by his opponent, in just the first round. A "move" that, despite being labeled an "Achilles lock" (a very common submission in both MMA and BJJ) in Minowa's record, is anything but that.
A particularly abhorrent detail is that this was not one of Goran's first fights, but his debut fight. Unbeknownst to him, he was going to have his first and last professional fight against the Japanese fighter.
While it is almost impossible for a debutant fighter to have his first match against another opponent who also lacks previous fights, it is normal for the second fighter to have few professional fights (for example, 10 or fewer fights). In this case, we were talking about a Japanese fighter who, at that point, already had a long history of more than 30 fights.
The fight, held in Tokyo on Saturday, April 5, 2014, ended with a serious injury to Jettingstad, whose leg was twisted by his opponent, in just the first round. A "move" that, despite being labeled an "Achilles lock" (a very common submission in both MMA and BJJ) in Minowa's record, is anything but that.
A particularly abhorrent detail is that this was not one of Goran's first fights, but his debut fight. Unbeknownst to him, he was going to have his first and last professional fight against the Japanese fighter.
While it is almost impossible for a debutant fighter to have his first match against another opponent who also lacks previous fights, it is normal for the second fighter to have few professional fights (for example, 10 or fewer fights). In this case, we were talking about a Japanese fighter who, at that point, already had a long history of more than 30 fights.