Fight of the Day: Gary Goodridge vs. Jan Nortje

So Gary Goodridge will be taking on Butterbean in April, and tomorrow's Strikeforce event will feature Bob Sapp against 1-5 Euro-can Jan Nortje. If you're curious about Goodridge and Nortje's current skill level, just watch this sad match from K-1 HERO's 8 (3/12/07), where Goodridge takes piles of abuse in one of the roughest, stupidest rope-a-dopes ever, then pounds back when Nortje is completely gassed. Again, Sapp is a -600 favorite in tomorrow's match, even though his usual game plan (slug away all your energy then fall over) is exactly the same as Nortje's. Anyway.

And because commenter "fightfan" asked for it, here's Goodridge's November 2005 loss against Glaube Feitosa in a K-1 kickboxing championship match. Watch as Feitosa knocks out Gary's front teeth at 3:44, and recoil in horror during the slo-mo replay at 5:08.