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[Realeza]

Fighting/MMA has a bunch of badass moves, but I'm gonna give it to football's bicycle kick. Landing a goal with one of this must be the best feeling in the world. My favorite of all time is Rivaldo's version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCwxlyN3B0E

Credits to Zlatan's too:

 

[MadLaughter]

That time Brian Dawkins suplexed a dude

 

[Sephzilla]

Aaron Rodgers has mastered the Shoryuken

Serious answer. The slam dunk in basketball

 

[hobozero]

Do football headbutt's count?

 

[Theorry]

 

[LeroyPantwether]

Slam dunk on a defender. It demoralizes the other player (sometimes permanently), gets the crowd crazy, and it's something most humans can't even come close to doing.

 

[Luschient]

Unflinchable Kobe

 

[SocksAndShoes]

Remember Jason Williams?

This was the coolest shit in the world when I was 15.

 

[Akuun]

Bicycle kicks look really cool.

Another one that was mentioned recently here was Ding Ning's reverse tomahawk serve in ping pong. It just looks so weird.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuaDkFSKb6g

In terms of coolness, I think running jump serves in volleyball look really cool.

 

[gutshot]

That time Brian Dawkins suplexed a dude

Yeah. That was pretty dope.

I also like this one.

Dawk was so fun to watch.

 

[Jesus Carbomb]

 

[Sephzilla]

That time William Moore delivered a spinebuster that would have made Arn Anderson proud

 

[Sanjuro]

Unflinchable Kobe

He is no Dennis Drinkwater.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-Ppzp54qvo

 

[zeemumu]

Unflinchable Kobe

This GIF's gonna get some mileage in future Trump threads


Mine goes to Ali's dodges

 

[DerangedHermit]

Slam dunk on a defender. It demoralizes the other player (sometimes permanently), gets the crowd crazy, and it's something most humans can't even come close to doing.

Well sure but i prefer Vince's version where he just ignores the guy on the way to the rim

 

[SocksAndShoes]

Well sure but i prefer Vince's version where he just ignores the guy on the way to the rim

This is still one of the craziest things I've ever witnessed. I just stood up when it happened and yelled for like 20 seconds, alone in my apartment. I basically turned into KG from that gif.

 

[TarpitCarnivore]

Serious answer. The slam dunk in basketball

Posterized slam dunks are even better.

 

[Mr. Poolman]

How about the Scorpion Kick?

 

[DeathoftheEndless]

A good slam dunk is the best.

 

[Violence Jack]

Nothing gets me pumped like seeing a running back absolutely plow over/stiff arm dudes in his way. I used to play RB on offense in high school, and it was always incredibly hard to bust off a run going straight through the line of scrimmage.


This is my favorite play in all of NFL history. Me being a Hawks fan is only a plus. I would've geeked out for this no matter which team it was.

But dunking on someone always gets me out of my seat as well

 

[DerangedHermit]

Being a goalkeeper who scores freekicks is also pretty badass

(Scored 127 goals in his whole career too)

 

[Sephzilla]

Not even a Hawks fan and I went nuts watching this

 

[SocksAndShoes]

How about the Scorpion Kick?

This seems completely unnecessary.

Awesome.

 

[Ardenyal]

 

[CopperPuppy]

First, the GOAT:

Lue literally looks like a child the moment before AI steps over him. Sonned in every sense of the word. Also any good cross really:

Boxing is my fave but I'll go down a rabbit hole if I start looking for GIFs and I don't wanna do that. Someone get some PBF in this thread, please.

 

[Makareu]

Always been a big fan of this suplex

 

[HStallion]

The hand of God

 

[Peanut Butter]

 

[True Savior]

Tomahawk. Straight out of an anime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuaDkFSKb6g

 

[xDUMPWEEDx]

 

[HellforLeather]

Gotta be the slam dunk....

Im personally partial to sweet rally drifts

Or knee/elbow down in motorcycle racing..

 

[bionic77]

Dunk/facial is the most badass that is not straight thuggery (i.e. football blindside/jacked up big hit).

 

[CountAntonius]

Dunk and crossover.

 

[guek]

I always love a good suplex

 

[MechDX]

 

[Robaperas]

Gotta be the slam dunk....

Im personally partial to sweet rally drifts

Yup.

 

[The Albatross]

I love the ultimate troll move in basketball where the inbounding player throws it off of the back of a defender not paying attention, and goes in for an uncontested layup.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naNJ3_PswVw

Here's a great one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FRnOH2X4h0

 

[Boogs31]

I love a good nutmeg in soccer.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W40sCCdij2o&app=m&persist_app=1

 

[True Savior]

The Cuauhtemiña (something Aoki would be proud)

 

[Dr.Horrible]

I've always been preferential to blocks.

Edit - I suck at gifs right now so here's a video.


http://youtu.be/6mz86IXOhLk

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

Shattering the backboard.

I had an NBA book when I was a kid that had a frame-by-frame analysis of Darryl Dawkins shattering a board and I used to think it was the coolest thing I'd ever seen.

 

[Giant Robot]

Any and everything Pavel Datsyuk did:

Signature deke. What makes this difficult is that he's cutting his skate angle into the opposite direction on the opposite foot.

Spin-o-rama

This one is a little hard to pick up at first, but Datsyuk pulls the puck behind him through his legs in front and scores a goal...

 

[Mimosa97]

This is still one of the craziest things I've ever witnessed. I just stood up when it happened and yelled for like 20 seconds, alone in my apartment. I basically turned into KG from that gif.

Do you know that it basically ruined that guy's life/career back in France ?

I didn't follow the french national team back then but I knew the guy just because of that dunk.

 

[DerangedHermit]

 

[Jezbollah]

Meh. Carl Froch reboots George Groves.

Or knee/elbow down in motorcycle racing..

Pfff. Please.

In fact, those riders in the Isle of Man TT tops anything "badass" seen in this thread.

Anyone who thinks otherwise doesnt have a clue.

 

[TheOMan]

Nothing gets me pumped like seeing a running back absolutely plow over/stiff arm dudes in his way. I used to play RB on offense in high school, and it was always incredibly hard to bust off a run going straight through the line of scrimmage.


This is my favorite play in all of NFL history. Me being a Hawks fan is only a plus. I would've geeked out for this no matter which team it was.

But dunking on someone always gets me out of my seat as well

He killed a man on that dunk. He died!

 

[spootime]

how

 

[DerangedHermit]

how

Be Ronaldinho ...

... or Berbatov.

 

[mike6467]

Be Ronaldinho ...

... or Berbatov.

I'm going to go watch some best of videos on Youtube and get my fix of shitty house/trance music while enjoying more of this.

 

[SocksAndShoes]

Do you know that it basically ruined that guy's life/career back in France ?

I didn't follow the french national team back then but I knew the guy just because of that dunk.

Wow, I just read This ESPN article about the dunk and it's an insane story.