Every move in fighting has likely been around forever at some point in history, in some part of the world. However, certain techniques are associated with notable figures. Canada’s welterweight G.O.A.T. Georges St-Pierre, for example, is known more for the Superman punch than any other fighter. However, another Canadian recently borrowed some his thunder.

Kevin Bieksa of the Anaheim Ducks recently dropped Radko Gudas of the Philadelphia Flyers with a sweet one, during an NHL hockey game.

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While fighting is prohibited in other mainstream professional sports like soccer, golf, baseball, football, Tennis, and basketball, it’s legal, albeit penalized, in hockey. So it’s no surprise to see hockey borrowing techniques from the world’s premier fight sport – mixed martial arts.

And Bieksa can fight. At 36, he has now been in 54 fights in his ten seasons playing for the Vancouver Canucks and three seasons with the Ducks. In fact, it was knocking out a guy named Fedor that got him into the major league of hockey.

In 2004 Bieksa, then a minor league player, was in a bar in Winnipeg after a game, and accidentally bumped into Fedor Fedorov, brother of NHL Hall of Famer Sergei Fedorov, spilling his beer. Despite repeated apologies from Bieksa, Fedorov, who towered over the Canadian by four inches and 50 pounds, insisted the pair go outside to fight.

Bieksa knocked out Fedor with one punch, cutting him up. Bieksa figured he would be dropped from the Canucks farm team. Instead, an impressed former Canucks GM Brian Burke signed him to an NHL contract. He is currently on a two-year, $8,000,000 contract extension that runs through 2017-18.

So once again, fighting solves everything.