MMA Fighter Lad Celebrates ‘Pokemon Go’ Style After Knocking Opponent Out

Featured Image Credit: Twitter / BellatorMMA

An absolute lad of an MMA fighter has celebrated his victory in a fight in the most Pokétastic way possible.

On Saturday, Bellator's Michael Page knocked out Evangelista Santos with a flying knee before busting out a celebration where he put on a Pokémon trainer's hat and threw a Poké ball at his opponent, who was still lying on the ground recovering from his injuries.

(Video Credit: Twitter / BellatorMMA)

Fucking hell, it's disrespectful but it's also hilarious.

It was reported earlier this week that the augmented reality mobile game developed by Niantic is seeing about 21 million daily active users. Technology news website Techcruch has reported that the game makes a $1.6million daily revenue.

Yesterday the Pokémon Go servers went down and our lives crumbled before us, with a hacking collective known as PoodleCorp taking responsibility for the game going down.

To be fair, given how big Pokémon Go has got, I wouldn't be surprised to see more Pokémon inspired celebrations in the future.

Maybe that should have been Michael's entrance song?

Words by James Dawson

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Topics: MMA

James Dawson

James Dawson is a Journalist at LADbible. He has contributed articles to LADbible’s ‘Knowing Me, Knowing EU’ series on the EU referendum, the 'Electoral Dysfunction' series on the 2017 general election, the ‘U OK M8?’ series tackling mental health amongst young men, and for its ‘Climate Change’ initiative in partnership with National Geographic.

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