This Week in Knockouts: Fedor, Karate, and Isaac Dogboe

Whenever the UFC takes a break from their seemingly non-stop, year-round calendar of events, it’s always a good opportunity to take a step back and get a little broader look at the combat sports world. What’s going on outside the Octagon? More importantly, who got absolutely flattened in some random eastern European MMA event none of us have ever heard of before?

This week, the obvious spotlight belongs to Fedor Emelianenko, who picked up a first round TKO of Frank Mir to advance past the opening round of the Bellator heavyweight grand prix. Likewise, Ghanaian super bantamweight Isaac Dogboe took home a WBO world title, with a win over Jessie Magdaleno. And of course there’s lots of…