Video: Bellator offers Knockout of the Year contender

Now this is a knockout. Eyes rolled back, out cold, get the smelling salts unconscious. Pat Curran did the damage. Rather, his overhand right did, laying out Georges St. Pierre protegé Mike Ricci at Thursday’s Bellator 14 event. Ricci crumpled like a puppet with its strings cut.

The win advances Curran, the cousin of MMA pioneer Jeff Curran, into the semi-finals of Bellator’s Season 2 lightweight tournament along with Toby Imada, who armbarred James Krause, and Bellator 13 winners Roger Huerta and Carey Vanier.

Also on the card, former Olympic wrestler Ben Askren pulled off an impressive  win over former UFC contender and fellow welterweight Ryan Thomas via anaconda choke. And Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt Wilson Reis locked in a fight-ending rear-naked choke on Shad Lierley in featherweight action.