He provided the Ultimate Fighting Championship with its first highlight-reel knockout, forever ensuring himself a prominent place in mixed martial arts lore. Gerard Gordeau turns 70 on March 30.
A decorated kickboxer and Kyokushin karate practitioner out of The Hague, Netherlands, Gordeau finished his brief but eventful MMA career with a 2-2 record. He stopped Teila Tuli in the first-ever televised UFC bout and did so in vicious fashion, as his fight-ending head kick knocked out three of the 450-pound Hawaiian sumo wrestler’s teeth—two of them were imbedded in the Dutchman’s foot, the other famously flew out of the cage—a mere 26 seconds into their UFC 1 quarterfinal on Nov.