After Anderson Silva's highlight reel front face kick that knocked out Vitor Belfort in their UFC Middleweight title fight this past Saturday at UFC 126, the champ told the media that he learned the kick from movie star Steven Seagal.
Steven Seagal helped me perfect that kick. That was a kick we were working on before I stepped in. This was a kick that I trained a lot.-- Silva
Seagal responded by saying "Nobody knows the kick. I'm teaching it to Machida, Anderson, and a few other Brazilians, but we haven't really used it much yet. I haven't shown it to many people yet."
My obvious (and possibly ignorant) question is what makes Seagal's version different from a regular front kick?
If anybody missed the kick, I found this helpful little image on a MMA website
segal has to kick like that, because that's as high he can get his leg up...