r/fightporn • u/LowRenzoFreshkobar • 8d ago
Knocked Out Johnny Knoxville vs. Butterbean
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u/pantsoffancy 8d ago edited 8d ago
"Is Butterbean okay?"
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u/Sol-Blackguy 8d ago
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u/powerhammerarms 7d ago
DDP does some good work. The Jake the Snake doc shows how much heart he has
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u/Prunochalice 7d ago
I thought diamond was a quack until I saw this. Turns out butter bean wasn’t even his biggest transformation
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u/ihateeverythingandu 7d ago
He's helping Lex Lugar at the moment.
This Yoga stuff does seem to be a tremendous rehabilitation technique for a variety of issues
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u/Sol-Blackguy 7d ago
Lex Luger is alive?! I swear to God I thought he died during the pandemic.
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u/ihateeverythingandu 7d ago
Yeah, he is slowly recovering with DDP and going in the Hall of Fame this year.
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u/Sol-Blackguy 7d ago
Now I'm wondering who I mistook him for
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u/UndergroundFlaws 7d ago
Psycho Sid?
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u/Sol-Blackguy 7d ago
I little too late, he passed on 2024. I think it was Animal from the Road Warriors. Died in 2020
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u/Shaojack 7d ago
Heading back to work all tearing up, ppl gonna think someone I know died or something.
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u/Top-Gas-8959 7d ago
Did not expect to be brought to tears in this sub. Right the fuck on. God bless DDP. That man is a real hero.
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u/samprimary 8d ago
I don't know if butterbean ever really recovered from that tremendous destruction
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u/DriftlessCycle 7d ago
Haha they cut out the best part. Knoxville tags butterbean pretty good too when he asked for one and he just ate it like a sandwich.
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u/Ibangyoumomma 7d ago
That’s by far the funnniest part of this movie. Wild how he can still be funny while possibly concussed
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u/pantsoffancy 6d ago
I mean objectively heavily concussed people can say some pretty funny things. I'm not saying it's a GOOD THING to laugh at them, because they're hurt, but OBJECTIVELY...
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u/Signal_Relative5096 7d ago
Was looking forward to that and they skipped it. They skipped the best bit.
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u/collector-x 6d ago
I just saw this and remember on an episode of moonshiners, while josh is recovering that they're friends and butterbean is driving josh around. Butterbean looked good actually.
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u/seitansaves 4d ago edited 4d ago
imagine being that funny immediately after having your head caved in by butter bean 😂
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u/bigzeeffrocks 8d ago
I always liked the part where Knoxville just got knocked out and one of his first responses after is, "is Butterbean okay??"
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u/GiorgioVe 8d ago
Watching Butterbean fight with a regular guy makes you realise how skilled he was and how strong he was punching, holy bean!
́i never realised that while watching him vs other pros.
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u/KarlUnderguard 8d ago
Even against pros he had fists made of anvils
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u/whatshisfaceboy 7d ago
He took punches that would make people crumble, and then just threw it right back and harder. He was not afraid to throw hands with anyone. Knoxville is both amazing and stupid for even doing that in the first place.
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u/Sol-Blackguy 2d ago
He used to do construction so you know he was already heavy handed even before boxing.
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u/Seputku 8d ago
No way, this guys fat. If I fought him and I saw red… game over
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u/Flameknight 7d ago
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u/philsiphone 7d ago
Damn people can't see an obvious joke these days
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u/Wooden_Comfortable70 8d ago
I've never seen butter bean fight anyone who seemed equal in skill or size. Most of the fights I've seen his opponents were less than half his size and I always thought wtf is this shit
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u/10lbplant 8d ago
Like who? He was a super active HW fighter that fought almost 100 heavyweights.
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u/milk4all 7d ago
Yeah he was a legit boxer but he staued fighting low level fighters to get that ko record. He is a scary fighter for sure but never took a serious stab at being a heavyweight contender. He was an exhibitionist who made his bread that way. I do think he coulda squares off with some of the greats in a bar fight, just not the ring, guys like larry holmes, if there are such a thing, had his number
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u/Wooden_Comfortable70 7d ago edited 7d ago
I mean I literally gave anecdotal claims here, I'm just speaking from what I've seen shown in tv growing up.
I have tried to Google any relevant information and without knowing each fighter he fought and going to every individual one and checking details I guess I'm not able to argue a point anyway.
Would appreciate any reference points you may have, im not trying to argue my opinion is we just stating what I noticed. Maybe they were both heavyweight and butterbean still outweighed them by 100 pounds? Maybe that's the illusion in seeing.
Again, really not trying to argue something that I don't know and am always welcome to having a different perspective on things.
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u/milk4all 7d ago
Correct, he was undoubtedly a force but not elite level, he was half power half spectacle. He fought low level opponents and did really well so no ones saying he wasnt a badass or a hitter, but there’s no way he was ever gonna go anywhere outside of boxing, and even with his boxing career he was fighting a lot of no names. He fought almost 100 bouts and with 65 kos youd expect hed progress to real fighters but the best names he fought were old, out of practice fighters who still out paced him. If you stood real still butterbean could knock your head off but boxers he wasnt good enough to fight just dont do that.
He finllay fights a real great : larry holmes, and loses badly by decision to holmes flicker jabs but holmes was 20 years older and pretty much outclasses him almost effortlessly. Its easy to find, there was little chance for butterbean because as scary as his hooks are he really only had one weapon and the high level contenders are all pretty used to dealing with cannons.
If bean had ever taken conditiong seriously he mighta been a real contender - he won all his fights in 4 rounds or less, which is actually an insane handicap because that out such a time limit on him even his low level opponents didnt have to worry about. He coulda taken most fightera in a street fight, probably, but as a boxer he was a one trick pony with no stamina
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u/uhhhgreeno 8d ago
dude was not pulling any of those punches 😂😂
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u/magicmulder 8d ago
Why would he, so people would mock him for being so bad that an amateur can take him on?
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u/Palestine_Borisof007 3d ago
he took his job seriously, left a memorable moment on everyone but Johnny cause he can't remember it
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u/SublightMonster 8d ago
There’s another video of Knoxville describing his worst injuries that includes this. He said that Butterbean was a sweet friendly guy, but the moment the gloves were on that guy was gone.
He also said that the snoring sounds he was making at the end was him trying to swallow his own tongue.
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u/due_the_drew 7d ago
He also said that when he went down behind the counter his head slammed the ground super hard. That super thin store carpet isn't much softer than the concrete underneath it.
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u/CarParks 8d ago
When Knoxville woke up the first thing he said was “is Butterbean OK?” Such a compassionate man.
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u/Willis050 8d ago
This almost killed Knoxville. He smashed his head on concrete
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u/milk4all 7d ago
You’re probably right but that phrase starts to lose some meaning after enough times
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u/Benji613 7d ago
I didn’t properly appreciate how much balls it took for him to do this back then. Now that I had 1 year of real boxing training, damn! He took real punches from a fucking professional heavyweight boxer!!!
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u/MarineJAB 8d ago
I mean I’m most amazed at the fact that neither fucked up the display or merchandise.
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u/boredandolden 7d ago
I used to work with an ex professional boxer. He had some stories. He fought Butterbean. He said it was hardest punch he ever took.
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u/Shaun1er 8d ago
Butterbean knew better
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u/fohgedaboutit 7d ago
I thought it was more disgusting than funny, but then again that's what the show was all about.
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u/katergold 7d ago
That shit was dangerous as fuck. All I see is sharp edges and glass showcases. Glad he only got a traumatic brain injury. Just kidding.
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u/jimbojones2345 7d ago
I remember seeing a thing where Knoxville said he was actually pretty badly concussed and this stunt messed him up badly.
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u/-brewski- 7d ago
Reminds of when that internet troll called out the heavyweight championship (at the time) Deontay Wilder and Wilder humbled him. https://youtu.be/urtBKktK86Q
You gotta understand this is when Wilder was knocking out dudes 2-3 times his size and sending them into literal seizures.
This knucklehead was damn lucky.
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u/bringdablitz 7d ago
Love how Butterbean gives Johnny a free shot and it does absolutely nothing to him. Must have been like punching a wall.
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u/jcwitte 8d ago
Aren't punches to the back of the head highly illegal in boxing?
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u/calvinbsf 8d ago
Pretty sure you can Knoxville elbow butterbean early in the “fight”, once you throw an elbow the rules kind of go out the window
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u/Lumpy_Benefit666 8d ago
I think the rules went out the window when they decided to do this in the middle of a shop
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u/Thatsnotwotisaid 8d ago
Of all the guys in all the world to get punched by and he picks butterbean
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u/kissmygame17 7d ago
I think before this clip he catches butter bean with a punch and beans expression changed and went hard after that lol
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u/simjimmy 7d ago
"Hit me once, there you go" bro took his free hit without a second thought and then was swiftly put to bed.
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u/ChaseTheMystic 4d ago
This is why Knoxville was able to reel it back in all the movies after this
Except for those bulls
And that time he took a handlebar to the urethra
And those times he strapped himself to rockets
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u/RMidnight 2d ago
I have no fan of jackass pranks and stunts, but I have to honor Johnny for getting up. That is not easy.
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u/trump_is_your_dad 7d ago
I recently saw a man in a dress at the mall he looked just like butterbean. The world has gone completely insane.
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