Belal's knockout reign: the era we'll never stop rewatching!
i remember when the big screens in the old gym still had that flicker, and we all huddled round to watch belal pull off scrappy 10-5 rounds against guys who thought they had him figured out. kept sneaking those little left hands in like it was nothing, then boom—suddenly the whole place would just erupt like someone had flipped a switch.
Remember when the grass was greener 🌱
Yeaah, man, picture this: freezing November at the old O2 Academy, hands red raw from clapping, voice already gone halfway through the crowd chanting his name before he even steps in—then BAM, that flying knee, the gym roof nearly blew off 💥🔥 Ben Askren tried to flip it but Belal just caught air like it was a Sunday stroll in Heaton
One love, one side ❤️
Remember the night Belal dropped that flicker kick on Robbie Kellman in Calgary and the crowd got so loud the ref had to pause the fight just to let the building settle? i swear you could hear our chants in the parking lot outside, like some kind of pack of coyotes making sure the whole city knew who ran the show. Ben Askren's flying knee knockout wasn't the first time we saw that kind of pure magic—it was just the first time the whole world had to stop and watch.
Been here longer than some have followed.
man I still laugh every time i think about Belal’s post-fight press conf after the Askren KO 😂🤣 he’s stood there in the middle of the ring, still buzzing from the flying knee, and some journo goes “so Belal, how does it feel to dominate the welterweight division?” and Belal just deadpans into the mic “bro I nearly coughed up a lung mid-air, I wasn’t planning shit” 🍿 the whole locker room lost it, even Robbie Kellman’s physio just snorted his protein shake out his nose