Kyle Maynard MMA Fight Video Against Bryan Fry
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009Kyle Maynard is a congenital amputee. He basically only has two stubs for hands and small legs with deformed feet. None of Kyle Maynard’s limbs is what a healthy person has. Yet that is no obstacle in his dream of being an MMA fighter. And he did it. Kyle Maynard stepped into a cage and fought a full bodied opponent – Bryan Fry. The video of Kyle Maynard’s MMA fight is below. You will have seen it all after you have seen this.
Kyle Maynard lost the fight to Bryan Fry by unanimous decision. However it was a fight where regular MMA rules applied – that means kicks were allowed, knees were allowed, elbows were allowed – in other words, even though Kyle Maynard is limbless, he still had the balls to step into a cage and fight a regular fight with a trained MMA fighter who’s got all his limbs. For that Kyle Maynard deserves super props.
On the other hand, it is quite clear that Bryan Fry didn’t fight the same way he would have fought had he been against an opponent with all limbs intact. I can’t blame Bryan Fry for that. As trained MMA fighter, he’d feel truly horrible if he knocked out a limbless amputee with a kick to the face. It was a tough fight for Bryan Fry – I think it was much tougher for him psychologically that it was for Kyle Maynard. He knew crowd would cheer for Kyle and so they did, he knew he could not deploy all of his skill even though Kyle would wish for him to do so. You just can’t do it when you fight someone who has an obvious disability in respect to you. On a side note – how did the organizers picks the fighters? Aren’t there any weight groups? It doesn’t look to me like Bryan Fry was a fair weight group for Kyle Maynard. They should have picked some super skinny Thai fighter or something.
Kyle Maynard was a successful wrestler in high school – despite his disability. By watching the video, it is clear that he was striving to bring the fight with Bryan Fry to the ground so he could wrestle him. However, this being an MMA fight, not sheer wrestling, Wisconsin mixed martial artist Bryan Fry avoided the take down with skill. As part of his fight, Bryan Fry delivered several heavy blows to Kyle Maynard’s head. Kyle told the reporters after the fight that his ears are still buzzing from the blows, but he’s happy about it. It was a different experience and he had balls to go for it. MMA is more than just wrestling and for a kid with no limbs, this is a showcase of balls of steel.
So what the future holds for Kyle Maynard? Well, he told Atlanta Journal-Constitution that he wants to fight again. He’s determined to do it, just as he did it with wrestling. He lost his first 34 wrestling matches but it had not deterred him one bit. he kept working hard until he started winning. There is no wonder why the book Kyle Maynard released is titled “No Excuses”.
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