Following his boner-inducing triumvirate of headkick KO's in 2009, DREAM Welterweight Champion Marius Zaromskis had little room left on his testicles for any more danglers. He was supposed to be the next big thing in the welterweight division, and was seen by many as the second coming of Cro Cop. It was damn near impossible to not be enthusiastic about his prospects considering the utter devastation he was wreaking in the cage.
Maybe we were all too dazzled by the Lithuanian dynamo's... dynamism to look at it objectively at the time. Sakurai is old, Jason High is Jason High, and Myung Ho Bae is... I don't really know who the fuck Myung Ho Bae is. It's ok, that one wasn't a title fight. You can let the man eat squash once in a while, but it was time for a step up in competition.
Zaromskis got that and more when he faced Nick Diaz (the two ranked 12th and 15th at the time, respectively) in Miami for the vacant Strikeforce Welterweight title. Losing to Diaz wasn't a big shock, it was the way it happened that was somewhat shocking. After fading throughout the first round, Zaromskis eventually succumbed to death by a thousand pillowy punches (yes, you can knock someone out with a pillow ... I've done it before). The first round? From strikes? You shitting me?!
*read the rest and view a buttload of awesome KO videos after the jump*
Source: http://www.fightlinker.com/fighter-feature-marius-%C5%BEaromskis
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