UFC Hall of Famer and vice president of business development Chuck Liddell was asked to test body armor worn by a soldier, during a visit to Fort Campbell, KY.

During the meeting, a soldier asked Liddell to show off some of the skills he flashed inside of the cage throughout his impressive career and he was happy to meet the request.

Liddell gave a spinning back kick to the soldier, who was dressed in body armor, to show off the power that fighters can pack behind their devastating strikes. The shot landed right in the soldier’s gut and he was clearly feeling the pain, but the soldier stayed standing, so we call this one a draw.

Charles David “Chuck” Liddell is a retired American mixed martial artist and former Ultimate Fighting Championship Light Heavyweight Champion. Liddell has an extensive striking background in Kempo, Koei-Kan karate and kickboxing, as well as a grappling background in collegiate wrestling and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

Liddell holds the record with the most knockouts in UFC history at thirteen. Liddell had 23 fights in the UFC, and along with Randy Couture, is widely credited for bringing mixed martial arts into the mainstream of American sports and entertainment.

Interceptor body armor (IBA) is a bullet-resistant vest that was used by the United States Armed Forces from the late 1990s to the late 2000s, still seeing use as of the early 2010s. The Interceptor Body Armor design replaced the older standardized fragmentation protective Personnel Armor System for Ground Troops (PASGT) body armor system, introduced in the early 1980s.

Body armor is always a compromise: mobility and comfort (and thus speed and stamina) are inevitably sacrificed to some degree when greater protection is achieved. This is a point of contention in the U.S. armed forces, with some favoring less armor in order to maintain mobility and others wanting as much protection as is practical.