Who kicks harder between Bas Rutten & Alex Pereira? | Interview

Bloody Elbow's own Eddie Mercado caught up with Bas Rutten recently for a quick interview prior to Karate Combat 37, which is officially in the books; it went down on Saturday, December 17th from the backlot of Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida.

UFC middleweight champion, Alex Pereira, was invited into the pit along with former UFC heavyweight champion, Bas Rutten, to measure the power of their leg kicks on the 'PowerKube'.

Now the 'PowerKube' was being a little finicky. If you don’t hit the target just right then it won’t accurately measure the strike. After trying from a few different angles of attack, Pereira found the sweet spot and managed to deliver a record-breaking leg kick that registered a whopping score of 90987.

After seeing this sort of power, it’s no wonder that Israel Adesanya had mobility issues in their MMA match at UFC 281. We all knew that Alex had power, but now it has been officially measured.

But there’s no way that a 57-year-old Bas Rutten can come close to those numbers, right?

Wrong! Bas proved that he still has it! The martial arts legend took several swings at the meter, with each kick looking just as technical as the next. Ultimately, Rutten posted up an impressive score of 88388, which isn’t too far off from the numbers that Pereira put up. You need not be a math wiz, to surmise that’s only a difference of 2559. He may be closer to 60 than he is 50, but Bas still kicks like a frickin’ mule!

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