Jose Canseco MMA Debut

[Will E Worm]

Jose Canseco Gets Crushed In MMA Debut.

YOKOHAMA, Japan — Jose Canseco came out swinging but didn't last long in his debut in mixed martial arts.

The former Oakland A's slugger was defeated by South Korean super heavyweight Hong Man Choi by a knockout just 1 minute, 17 seconds into the first round at Yokohama Arena.

The referee stopped the fight when the 7-foot-2, 330-pound Choi knocked Canseco to the mat and started punching his head.

"That's a big man," Canseco said after the fight. "I ran into one of his left jabs and that almost knocked me out. You have no idea how scary it was facing a man that big."

Canseco did land the first blow with a right to the upper body of Choi but that was all the damage he could inflict on the Korean giant.

Shortly into the fight, Canseco hurt his right knee and was unable to do much after that.

"I hurt my knee back home real bad but I didn't want to disappoint the fans," Canseco said. "I knew that at some point during the fight my knee was going to give out and once I was down I knew I wasn't going to get up. He's just too heavy to move."

Canseco came into the arena to "Wild Thing" with a baseball bat on his shoulder. The way things turned out, he probably should have kept the bat.

He took a few swings of the bat after the fight was over and was helped out of the ring by his girlfriend, Heidi Northcott.

Canseco, who hit 462 home runs over 17 seasons in the major leagues, has had several fights inside the ring since leaving baseball but has never taken on professional fighters like Choi, who improved to 2-2 in MMA.

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What?

Couldn't he work in some capacity with a major league baseball team?

 

[rookieb]

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What?

Couldn't he work in some capacity with a major league baseball team?

On eof the photos I saw of the fight was amazing...big right hand coming and Canseco with a "please don't hit me" weepy look on his face. Tears looked imminent.

 

[afkallthetiem]

He tapped to strikes early in the first: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtyULXOZMOk

 

[HeartBroker]

Thumped by a 7 foot Korean!

Can it get any better than that ?

 

[whalers90]

Shortly into the fight, Canseco hurt his right knee and was unable to do much after that.

"I hurt my knee back home real bad but I didn't want to disappoint the fans," Canseco said. "I knew that at some point during the fight my knee was going to give out and once I was down I knew I wasn't going to get up. He's just too heavy to move."

WOW an "MMA" guy losing and always using the excuse of some injury that forced them to lose.
i have seen too many young MMA guys use the injury excuse. and i hate that. U LOST that's it...U LOST


Will E Worm what capacity is he going to work with a MLB team? he is hated in the MLB after the books and all the steroid "ratting" that he did.
nobody will ever hire him.

 

[afkallthetiem]

Canseco isn't a real fighter or an MMA guy though. Atleast he didn't back out but he was 100% expected to, his first pro fight he was tooled badly and it was a total joke and he has no standup or ground game, just a bunch of blackbelts from some tai chi mcdojos or w/e.

 

[Rezen]

A horrible idea to begin with. Let's put a rookie in with a K1 tournament champion....

Jose has no business in the ring with the fighters in the "super hulk" tournament. I would loved to have seen Soko judo throw his ass though.

 

[bd11]

Priceless !

 

[shayd]

Since his retirement, he's gone on record as saying he wants nothing to do with Major League Baseball, and wants the public to be aware of all the problems with the league.


Outside of that, I'm still wondering why people care about him now.

 

[7777]

Back to VH1 he goes!!