 Fight at 2:10 | Height | Weight | Punches | Blood |
| Duration N/A | Thrown | Landed | Big |
| Nick Kypreos | 6'0'' | 210lb  5 | N/A | N/A | N/A | Rivers Of Blood |
| Ryan VandenBussche | 6'0'' | 205lb  5 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
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 chrisY2J
1110 fight reviews
May 13 08:54 ET | Ryan VandenBussche win by KO | Fun
9 |
When the news hi-lite clip cuts in, we see that Nick Kypreos and Ryan VandenBussche are locked in a fierce battle in close quarters.
Vandy lands a series of fast, hard lefts. The punches look like they hurt and stung Kypreos, as he buries his head against Vandy's chest to keep his face out of the way. Kypreos is already bleeding here, because he leaves some bloodstains on Vandy's white sweater at this juncture.
The two scrappers grapple. It looks like the officials want to come in and stop it, and they ask Kypreos if he wants them to stop it. Kypreos responds by prying off Ryan's helmet. Nick then comes out of the defensive shell and starts throwing some lefts back at VandenBussche. Kypreos lands a few relatively harmless shots to the side and back of the head, but then stops throwing and holds on. I think Kypreos may already have been hurting or dazed from that first salvo of lefts Vandy tagged him with, because he leaves himself vulnerable.
Vandy sees his opening and pounces. BAM, he drills Kypreos with a single straight left, flush in the face. Kypreos is instantly rendered unconscious and falls right down, landing face-first on the ice. VandenBussche stops fighting immediately and goes directly to the penalty box.
Kypreos, meanwhile, is out cold and in big trouble. He lays flat on the ice. Blood flows out of the bad cut on his face in pulsebeats. Nick's eyes are half open, but no one's home. Blood is pooled under his face. The Toronto players and trainers run out to him. It was a truly grisly sight, especially when the trainer picked him up and tried to turn him over. Kypreos' mouth hung open slackly as blood poured from his face.
Incredibly, Kypreos was eventually revived on the ice and managed to leave the rink on his own feet. He went to the dressing room for medical attention and did not return to the game.
Unfortunately for Kypreos, he wouldn't ever return, at all. He never played again because of the post-concussion problems he had from this fight. |
MarkV
400 fight reviews
Nov 23, 2005 15:09 ET | Ryan VandenBussche win by KO | Fun
10 |
| Kypreos was doing alright in this fight, the linesman seems to ask a question during the fight, Nick keeps trying to fight and then BOOM Vandenbussche smokes him with a left. Kypreos is out before he hits the ice, reminiscent of when Kevin Stevens was hit in the 93 playoffs and fell unconscious to the ice face first. The scary part of this is when Kypreos awakes in his own pool of blood. You wouldn't know he was a fighter by seeing him on Sportsnet though. |
steeles21
199 fight reviews
Sep 28, 2007 12:21 ET | Ryan VandenBussche win by KO | Fun
9 |
| Sick KO. People seem to overlook the start of the fight. VandenBussche threw about 4 or five straight lefts to start the fight. The 2nd was a hard shot that landed and knocked off Kypreos' helmet, the last was a really hard shot that stunned Kypreos pretty bad. Nick stumbled a little forward and ducked his head into Ryan's chest to give himself a chance to recover. The linesman sees Kypreos is hurt and gets ready to break it up, instead he says something to Kypreos, my guess is something like 'are you ok' or 'do you want to keep going'. Kypreos starts to throw a couple of rabbit punches, so the linesman moves away and allows the fight to continue. A few seconds later he gets KO'd. Imo, Kypreos was not ok to continue which is why he just stood there and let Vandy land the ko punch. If Nick would have let the linesman break up the fight he may have played 5 more years. |
SlapShot
208 fight reviews
Jul 8, 2006 19:19 ET | Ryan VandenBussche win by KO | Fun
8 |
| Scary. VandenBussche catches Kypreos with a left that drops him face first (usually a sure sign that someone is completely out) and as he drops to the ice blood is just pooling out of his head, I'm assuming from where he hit his head on the ice. I've seen my fair share of hockey fights throughout the years, and while I've seen guys bleed like pigs before I don't know that I've ever seen anything like this, not from a fight anyways. |
Owned33
375 fight reviews
1 fight log
Apr 29, 2007 23:43 ET | Ryan VandenBussche win by KO | Fun
8 |
| Both going toe-to-toe for a second then they hug and then Kypreos throws 2 punches to the helmet then VB throws 2 and the second one knocks Kypreos out and the blood starts to poor. It looks as if the refs skate hits Kypreos in the head when he steps over him but I don't think it does. |
Tsunami
335 fight reviews
Jan 29, 2009 23:40 ET | Ryan VandenBussche win by KO | Fun
10 |
Possibly the most brutal KO you will ever watch in the sport of hockey.
When the camera arrives at the fight scene, VandenBussche and Kypreos are tied up. VandenBussche lands two solid rights and Kypreos tries to grapple and tie up VandenBussche. Vandy uses his power to get his right hand free and that is when it hit. VandenBussche did nothing different about this punch then any other in the fight, except place it with perfection. Kypreos was out and dropped instantly with his the side of his face touching the ice slightly.
Medical staff and teammates rushed to the scene quickly. The staff was able to save Kypreos's life but not his hockey career. As that was ended by post-concussion symptoms.
Clearly, without a doubt, this is a KO, as Kypreos was in no condition to keep fighting. |
mullet
12529 fight reviews
Feb 4, 2010 06:49 ET | Ryan VandenBussche win by KO | Fun
10 |
| I have the entire fight on tape, not just a newsclip, here's how it went. The two square off at blue line. They grab each other and start going toe to toe, both throwing lefts. Vandenbussche gets the better of the short exchange, he clearly stuns Kypreos who stops throwing and the two start to wrestle. One of the linesmen then goes and asks Kypreos if he's alright. I guess Kypreos told him he wanted to continue and the linesman steps back and allows them to continue. The two wrestle, Kypreos takes Vandenbussche's helmet off and lands a couple of noogies. They get some distance between them and Vandenbussche then nails Kypreos with a left that puts Kypreos to sleep. Kypreos goes down face first and blood starts pouring on the ice as he's laying there unconscious. One of the most famous KO's of all time and the fight that ended Kypreos' career. |
JruGordon
384 fight reviews
Nov 14, 2004 03:53 ET | Ryan VandenBussche win by KO | Fun
8 |
| i only saw the ending of this fight, which is also the end of Kypreos' career....Vandy nails Kypreos with an uppercut, and Kypreos is out before he hits the ice...he hit the ice face-first, which didn't help matters either, and he laid there in an ever-growing pool of blood...scary sight really |
Anthony19
2600 fight reviews
Nov 28, 2004 01:13 ET | Ryan VandenBussche win by KO | Fun
8 |
| Vandy with a right sends Kyp down, then the blood starts to flow. SICK....... |
billybalz
254 fight reviews
Apr 11, 2005 18:51 ET | Ryan VandenBussche win by KO | Fun
8 |
| Kypreos was out before he hit the ice....scary stuff.....the sickest KO I've seen |
Jocke
1563 fight reviews
12 fight logs
Apr 19, 2005 16:46 ET | Ryan VandenBussche win by KO | Fun
9 |
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inokwaybo
73 fight reviews
Jun 22, 2005 10:05 ET | Ryan VandenBussche win by KO | Fun
8 |
| When you start to see the fight, VandenBussche fire a left, which miss, then Kypreos fire a right, then they trade punches for two seconds, then Vanden fire four left in straight which all misses.They start to grab each other, Kypreos try to put Vandens helmet off, when he failed he fire two short right at Vandens cheek. Put Vandens helmet off fire a right at Vandens backhead. Then they grab each other for a moment, then Vanden fire a left at Kyrpreos elbow and load a left. Aim and fire a heavy left at Kypreos chin, which get unconscious and fell to the ice whith the face first. When he lay there it comes a pool of blood from his face. Scary to see. |
Joonibal
147 fight reviews
Nov 7, 2005 19:35 ET | Ryan VandenBussche win by KO | Fun
8 |
| Possibly the most brutal knockout I've seen. Kypreos is a mess, as a pool of blood begins to form underneath where his face fell. |
re
9240 fight reviews
Dec 5, 2005 17:44 ET | Ryan VandenBussche win by KO | Fun
10 |
it was a grate fight.
And a big ending.
Vandenbussche Ended Kypreos's hockey days with a huge shot to the head |
dbrown
156 fight reviews
Jan 17, 2006 07:40 ET | Ryan VandenBussche win by KO | Fun
9 |
| Blood... |
EddieShore
917 fight reviews
Feb 15, 2006 18:12 ET | Ryan VandenBussche win by KO | Fun
8 |
| Vandenbussche had the edge from the start and landed a vicious left straight to the chin of Kypreos who went down like a clubbed ox and was unconscious in a pool of blood. |
ShootFace
1657 fight reviews
1 fight log
Mar 8, 2006 17:50 ET | Ryan VandenBussche win by KO | Fun
8 |
| this was just sick...too bad he had to be a leaf when it happened |
Hogie2
920 fight reviews
Apr 1, 2006 16:15 ET | Ryan VandenBussche win by KO | Fun
10 |
| Too bad this had to happen cuz now we have to watch kypreos on sportsnet |
riverman72
431 fight reviews
Apr 19, 2006 04:59 ET | Ryan VandenBussche win by KO | Fun
8 |
knocked kypreos out of hockey with this ko.
brutal punch out like a light he was. |
drwdan19
1239 fight reviews
Jun 3, 2006 16:54 ET | Ryan VandenBussche win by KO | Fun
8 |
| The fight that ended a career. |
KolMartin229
301 fight reviews
Sep 3, 2006 20:57 ET | Ryan VandenBussche win by KO | Fun
10 |
| Ouch.......... |
goleafsgo987
906 fight reviews
Sep 24, 2006 19:53 ET | Ryan VandenBussche win by KO | Fun
10 |
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Gagnon
13 fight reviews
Oct 2, 2006 13:53 ET | Ryan VandenBussche win by KO | Fun
9 |
| Great KO! |
lilburtis9363
817 fight reviews
Nov 26, 2006 17:53 ET | Ryan VandenBussche win by KO | Fun
9 |
| pretty even fight, then vandenbussche sees an opening and lands a good left and kypreos drops immediately and is bleeding really badly |
Vasara
245 fight reviews
Nov 26, 2006 18:20 ET | Ryan VandenBussche win by KO | Fun
9 |
| A huge KO by VandenBussche |
Brawls26
541 fight reviews
Jan 15, 2007 19:54 ET | Ryan VandenBussche win by KO | Fun
10 |
One of the best KO's ever.
A true career ender. |
freakyf
83 fight reviews
Aug 9, 2007 02:21 ET | Ryan VandenBussche win by KO | Fun
10 |
| Most brutal KO ever. |
Scott
7 fight reviews
Oct 2, 2007 16:30 ET | Ryan VandenBussche win by KO | Fun
8 |
| Quick Vandenbussche's left...and the end of Kypreos carrer! |
| Messages |
CDD
Mar 8, 2006 17:53 ET | it would have been better if he wasnt a leaf? | Reply |
ShootFace
Mar 9, 2006 10:34 ET | ya cuz Leafs are too good to be knocked out ... even though its happened so much times......no im just a leaf fan so it pissed me off when he got his ass knocked out...and then his carreer | Reply |
CDD
Mar 9, 2006 14:38 ET | wow | Reply |
ShootFace
Mar 9, 2006 15:48 ET | o ya i forgot...arent you the ottawa guy...or was that re | Reply |
CDD
Mar 9, 2006 16:12 ET | not me...i thought re was a calgary fan...or at least its clear he likes Jason Weimer...lol...my favorite team is the wings but im never shy on tellin people how horrible they are and how much they lose...probly if anything id be called a LA homer... | Reply |
re
Apr 19, 2006 08:44 ET | | | not me...i thought re was a calgary fan...or at least its clear he likes Jason Weimer...lol...my favorite team is the wings but im never shy on tellin people how horrible they are and how much they lose...probly if anything id be called a LA homer... |
Me I'm not a Ottawa or Calgary fan. Leafs and Detriot are my teams | Reply |
CDD
Apr 19, 2006 13:21 ET | oh | Reply |
Anonymous
Jul 9, 2006 04:25 ET | Whoever did the punch count has obviously just seen the end of this fight, there were plenty of punches thrown here | Reply |
re
Nov 7, 2006 18:48 ET | LMFAO look at Kypreos's win percentage | Reply |
KolMartin229
Nov 7, 2006 19:20 ET | | LMFAO look at Kypreos's win percentage
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Yeah but if you think that's bad... Look at Steve Leach's fight card... he got into 91 fights and he has 1 win | Reply |
lecavalier-averyfan
Apr 28, 2007 16:14 ET | eww | Reply |
lecavalier-averyfan
Apr 28, 2007 16:15 ET | | | Me I'm not a Ottawa or Calgary fan. Leafs and Detriot are my teams |
eww | Reply |
lecavalier-averyfan
Apr 28, 2007 16:16 ET | does anyone have a video of this fight? | Reply |
Owned33
Apr 29, 2007 23:36 ET | easier if you just went to youtube first... | Reply |
Prong
Jun 26, 2009 00:48 ET | dude is a warrior none the less... look at barnaby... would you fight that much, and get beat on that much? | Reply |
OAKIES2513
May 13 00:37 ET | | Reply |