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Melvin Manhoef brings Dutch kickboxing power to Boxing Game

The career retrospective revisits Evangelista Santos, Mark Hunt and the grappling tests that complicated Manhoef's striking game.

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TYSON in MMA! The Walking KO Machine - Melvin Manhoef

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0:56Manhoef's route from Suriname to the Netherlands introduces the Dutch kickboxing foundation of his fighting style.
1:25His move into MMA puts that striking against opponents with a wider range of skills.
4:25The first Evangelista Santos encounter becomes an extended, close-range striking contest.
6:21Akiyama's armbar exposes the submission danger even when Manhoef has success standing.
7:27Against Crosley Gracie, Manhoef finds a different answer through ground-and-pound.
14:55The retrospective returns to Santos for their rematch eight years later.

What happens when Boxing Game takes its Tyson comparisons outside boxing? Melvin Manhoef supplies an answer in the week's most-watched new upload, a career retrospective narrated over archival fight footage.

"TYSON in MMA! The Walking KO Machine - Melvin Manhoef" follows his route from Suriname to the Netherlands, then from Dutch kickboxing into mixed martial arts. The striking highlights come with a useful counterpoint: against Yoshihiro Akiyama, his stand-up success gives way to an armbar defeat. Against Crosley Gracie, the story turns back towards ground-and-pound. There is more here than a procession of punches.

The Santos encounters give the retrospective a thread stretching across eight years, while Mark Hunt supplies a heavyweight name familiar to both kickboxing and MMA audiences. In the comments, viewers ask about the missing Gökhan Saki fight, a particularly apt question after Boxing Game's separate Saki retrospective, which includes Manhoef among his opponents.

The Manhoef upload has reached about 111,000 views. The week's other release, "He Sacrificed Everything for the Future of Boxing", drew a much smaller audience. Older material remains important: October's Tyson-Carl Williams upload is attracting the most daily views, with Manhoef next and Saki also busy.

Across the channel, weekly views approached five million and subscribers continued to grow, though more slowly than across the past month. Its weekly view gain was second among the nearby combat-sports channels listed, with Undertaker having the largest week. Boxing Game's own daily viewing is above its usual level, supported by both the familiar Tyson archive and these excursions into kickboxing.

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What viewers say

If you look up aggressive ultimate warrior in the dictionary you'll see a picture of Manhoef. Best of a dozen of Dutch warriors.
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Wish he'd do bareknuckle boxing. Would be a seller
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