The problem with talking a big game prior to a fight is that you then have to then back it up in the cage, and unfortunately for this ultra-cocky heavyweight, on the night he proved to be all talk and no action.

The fight took place in February of this year in Japan’s famous Pancrase organization, a mixed martial arts outfit whose lineage pre-dates even the UFC.

I came to Pancrase to show who is the best leg-locker in the world! the heavy-set, tattoo-covered fighter loudly boasts in his pre-fight interview.

Not Sato. I’ve never heard of anybody he’s ever leg-locked. He’s been leg-locking schoolgirls! I’ve been leg-locking professional fighters! I came to show I’m No.1 at Pancrase.

So who exactly is this guy?

He’s actually an MMA veteran named Johnathan Ivey, who has no less than 88 fights to his name, spanning over a 19-year career.

Along the way he’s actually fought some pretty well known fighters like Ken Shamrock, Dan Severn, Ricco Rodriguez, Ben Rothwell and Jeremy Horn, but lost to all of them.

In fact, ‘Big John’ is no stranger to losing, having racked up a 32-56 career record.

To be fair to him though, he does have a solid record of tapping out opponents, with 26 of his 32 wins having come by submission, including a slew of heel hooks and kneebars, albeit against less than formidable opposition.

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Ivey’s confidence may have been further boosted by the fact that his opponent, Hikaru Sato only held a 23-23 record coming into the fight and was at a huge weight disadvantage, weighing just 185lbs compared to Ivey’s bulky 263lb frame.

Nevertheless, the fatal flaw in Ivey’s leg-locking gameplan is that every bout starts standing, and as it turned out, the only time he got to the fight to the canvas was when Sato cracked him with an overhand right to the jaw that KO’d him barely a minute into the contest!