Note: Kissing is NOT a legal submission hold in K-1

The immortal Ric Flair sometimes refers to himself as a 'limousine-riding, jet-flying, kiss-stealing, wheeling-dealing son of a gun.'

Well, it seems that Nakao Yoshihiro decided to take a a page out of Flair's book and steal a little kiss of his own at K-1's Dynamite promotion in Osaka last Saturday.  The problem was that Nakao didn't seem to know that Flair stole his kisses from women.  Apparently a little confused during the pre-fight stare-down, Nakao gave his opponent Heath Herring a nice little peck on the lips.

Perhaps Nakao was trying to throw Herring off of his game.  If that was the intention, it didn't work:

Anyway, at the stare down, the referee was mentioning the rules to both fighters. Then for some reason Nakao decided to kiss Herring on the lips. Herring reacted by punching Nakao with a right hook, but not close to full power. However, it appeared to shake Nakao’s brain pretty bad.

Pretty bad indeed.  They had to take him out on a stretcher.

The Marmot has the goods on tape.  It happens pretty quickly but you can see the kiss and Herring giving a 'no you didn't' look.  To add insult to injury, Nakao taunts Herring by puckering up again, which results in Herring coldcocking him.

BTW, the wierdness didn't stop (same link as above, scroll down) with the kiss and knock Out:

Now here’s where it gets interesting. After Nakao was carried out, Herring, wearing his coat and hat, stepped away from the ring and walked down the path to go back to the locker room. Yeah, he was still inside of arena. Some people booed. Others just shouted “Heath!! Heath!!!”

Suddenly, a bunch of guys just attacked Heath and his corner.

Read the rest to see how it turned out.

Comments

[Nomad]

Definitely one of the weirdest things I've seen in a while. Damned entertaining, but weird.