Video: Watch Shara ‘Bullet’ Magomedov practice spinning double backfist during UFC 308 open workouts

Shara Magomedov wasn’t lying when he said he regularly practiced the spinning double backfist he used to knock out his UFC 308 opponent.

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My God this Shara “Bullet.”

Shara Magomedov kicked off the UFC 308 pay-per-view card with a bang, going to war with Armen Petrosyan on the feet en route to a wild double spinning backfist knockout blow in the second round (watch all the highlights here).

The KO earned “Bullet” a $50k performance of the night bonus, and according to Shara it’s something he’s been working on for a while.

“How do you even practice that?” Cormier asked him during their post-fight interview.

“When I just started Muay Thai, this was the first thing I was shown by my older brother Mahat,” Magomedov said through a translator. “I trained it and trained it and trained it, but I could never land it. And today I landed it, and it worked.”

“Now this is mine,” he declared. “I patent this shot. This is my shot now.”

The double spinning backfist was definitely no out of the blue fluke. You can see Magomedov training the wild attack during the UFC 308 open workouts. It just goes to show you that any time you think you’ve seen everything in MMA, something new comes along ... and it’s usually something from an old martial art.

In this case it’s Muay Thai, where double spinning backfists aren’t common, but they aren’t unheard of either. A straight knockouts as a result of a spinning double backfist? Those are rare. So fighters be aware: if you try it in MMA moving forward, you have to give credit to Shara.