Anderson Silva's front kick carries Fight Lab through a week without uploads
Matthew Gray's 41-day-old breakdown of the Brazilian's famous weapon is closing in on six million views.
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The Key to Silva’s Front Kick 🦵 | Technique Breakdown #ufc #breakdown
Fight Lab posted nothing new this week, so the shelf did the talking, and the video doing most of it is six weeks old. "The Key to Silva's Front Kick" is Matthew Gray's short breakdown of the strike Anderson Silva made famous, the one that dropped Vitor Belfort at UFC 126 in 2011 and still turns up on every list of the sport's great knockouts. It is now close to six million views and keeps finding people at a steady clip.
Right behind it in daily pace is something much fresher: "How Ruffy ALMOST KO'd Arman," nine days old, about Mauricio Ruffy's moment of danger for Arman Tsarukyan. A third breakdown, "Fazil's Fatal Error," from the Contender Series tag in its title, has passed a million and is still ticking along.
The pause shows in the totals. Daily views are running at roughly half of what the channel usually does, though a few thousand new subscribers still arrived over the week. That is a familiar mood in this corner of fight content right now: Free MMA Gyms, FTC Boxing and THE MMA GURU are all below their usual pace too, while WWE NXT and WCW's vault are having busier weeks than normal.
For a channel whose whole tagline is "a closer look," it fits that a single kick is what viewers keep slowing down to watch.
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The videos drawing views on Fight Lab right now
- Channel
- Fight Lab
- Subscribers
- 483,000 ▲ 3,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 3,339,464
- Videos published this week
- 0
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At UFC 126 in 2011, Anderson Silva knocked out which fighter with a front kick to the face?
Silva stopped fellow Brazilian Vitor Belfort with a front kick in the first round of their UFC 126 title fight in February 2011.
