Filed under: Bellator , News , Videos Hisaki Kato said he was purposely positioned as an underdog to Joe Schilling at Bellator 139. But that belief didn’t stand in his way of landing a “Knockout of the Year” candidate on the kickboxing star. Schilling, one of the world’s top-ranked kickboxers, has discovered mixed results with his MMA experiment. He scored an MMAjunkie “Knockout of the Year” contender against Melvin Manhoef at Bellator 131 last year, but followed up with a disappointing split decision loss to Rafael Carvalho at Bellator 136 in April. There was a strong belief Bellator matchmakers handed Schilling (2-5 MMA, 1-2 BMMA) a favorable matchup with Kato (5-1 MMA, 1-0 BMMA) at Bellator 139 to help him rebound from the loss to Carvalho. The script didn’t play out at many thought it would, though, because Kato landed one of the cleanest Superman punches in recent memory and floored Schilling in highlight reel fashion during the second round of their middleweight bout
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Hisaki Kato on Bellator 139 upset: ‘I was there to be knocked out by Joe Schilling’ – MMA Junkie