KC’s Megan Anderson cold-cocked her UFC foe. Then she quaffed a cold one from a shoe
Megan Anderson found a way to upstage her one-punch knockout during Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 169 in Virginia.
The tall, tatted Australian who trains in the Kansas City suburb of Lee’s Summit, Missouri, celebrated her first-round triumph with an Aussie tradition: a “shoey,” or drinking a beer out of a dirty sneaker.
It all happened in Norfolk, Va., during a nationally televised card on ESPN.
Anderson, 11-4, who competes as a featherweight out of James Krause’s Glory MMA in the KC area, scored the TKO about 3 and a half minutes into the fight, landing a shot to the face of previously unbeaten Norma Dumont.
The impact dropped Dumont onto her backside, and Anderson proceeded to drop another lethal right fist into the Brazilian’s face to finish the bout with a little ground and pound.
It’s unclear exactly whose black Reebok wound up in Anderson’s hand as she started to make her way backstage, but she knew just what to do with it. With a plastic cup of beer in her right hand and aforementioned footwear in her left, she deftly transferred the golden liquid from cup to kick, tilted back, and commenced the shoey in all of its Down Under glory.
“This must run in the water, or I should say beer, or Fosters, down in Australia,” one of the announcers said on the broadcast.
Praise for Anderson’s joy of da feet was soon flowing in via social media.
A literal bonus for the 30-year-old Anderson? Her thirst-quenching showing inside the octagon earned her $50,000 as the fight card’s Performance of the Night. She’s hoping to land a title shot against Amanda Nunes next.
“I think it puts me in a perfect spot,” Anderson said.
Also winning Saturday night out of Krause’s Lee’s Summit training gym was Grant Dawson, 26, who improved to 15-1 with a second-round submission of Darrick Minner in the men’s featherweight division.
This story was originally published March 1, 2020 at 10:51 AM.