10 Crazy Things Fighters Tried To Gain An Advantage

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Yoshihiro Akiyama's corner rubbed six bottles of body lotion on him before his fight, making him so slippery his opponent begged the referee to stop.

The host counts down the 10 craziest, most unconventional, and sometimes absurd methods mixed martial artists have employed to gain an advantage over their opponents. The list includes stories of using body lotion as a slippery agent, camp espionage, applying video game frame data to real fights, extreme religious fasting, and bizarre shamanic rituals.

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A brisk tour of the absurd, desperate ways fighters try to gain an edge.

This episode takes a goofy setup and turns it into a clear look at how far fighters will go for an edge, from lotion slicked skin to hard-edged gym culture and the small rituals people build around bad ideas.

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You want a slippery fight-night story about Yoshihiro Akiyama and Kazushi Sakuraba, where body lotion, camera footage, and a TKO turned into controversy.

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