Low blows are an unfortunate part of the sport and while groin protectors usually do a pretty good job of minimizing the damage, you are still going to feel even the slightest tap.
According to Unified Rules of MMA, a fighter who has been struck with a low blow is given up to 5 minutes to recover and most of the time that is sufficient.
However, in some rare instances where the strike connects with much more force than usual, 5 minutes of time is not nearly enough and even 5 hours probably wouldn’t be either.
In these instances of the 3 most devastating low blows ever landed in MMA, the blow landed with such force that recovering wasn’t even an option and the fights were called off.
3) Mirko Cro Cop vs. Alistair Overeem
Getting kneed to the groin from anyone would hurt, let alone from Alistair Overeem who probably has the most powerful knee strikes in all of MMA. Cro Cop had some bad luck with low blows throughout his career it seems, and ate quite a few in his UFC fight against Cheick Kongo which he says cost him some strength.
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In this fight against Overeem though, the blow was so hard there was no coming back from it and the fight was called off and ruled a No Contest.
2) Wanderlei Silva vs Gilbert Yvel
This fight between two top strikers from way back in 2000 probably would have gone on to be a classic had it not been for the low blow that ended the fight just 21 seconds into the first round.
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What’s kind of interesting about this one is that Gilbert Yvel used to have a reputation for being a bit of a dirty fighter, but this time it was him who was on the receiving end of a brutal low blow.
1) Aori Gele vs Hyun Man Myung
This fight between Aori Gele and Hyun Man Myung from earlier this year at event Road FC 39 in Seoul, South Korea takes the cake for being the most devastating low blow ever landed in MMA. You can tell from Aori Gele’s reaction alone that this one really hurt and it’s no wonder as you can see in the replay that it landed with the shin not the foot like most low blows do.
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The fight was obviously called off and Aori Gele was rushed to the hospital but luckily, he reportedly suffered no lasting damage.
