Masvidal, Edwards, McKinney, Jung: The top 10 fastest knockouts in UFC history

Mixed martial arts knows how to keep us guessing and in the UFC, fans have been treated to some insanely quick knockouts over the years.

The harsh, unforgiving nature of the fight game often means that fighters can be left sparked out on the canvas without even knowing what’s happened to them.

In equal measure they can be submitted in the blink of an eye, but for the sake of mainstream drama, it’s always more emphatic to witness a KO that quite literally comes out of nowhere.

Plenty of elite level guys and girls have pulled off such a trick and today, we’re going to run through the 10 quickest knockouts in UFC history.

Read more: Joe Pyfer earns UFC contract with absolutely brutal KO on Dana White's Contender Series

When Jairzinho Rozenstruik first came into the UFC, he wasn’t getting paid by the hour.

The dominant heavyweight was out to make a statement every single time he competed and against Allen Crowder, ‘Bigi Boy’ made it look impossibly easy by catching him coming in before finishing it on the ground.

Back in the early days of the UFC, and more specifically UFC 8, the promotion was only just starting to find its feet in the MMA world.

As such we had lopsided match-ups between incredibly different fighters with, in this instance, Frye knocking down the much larger man with relative ease prior to the stoppage.

In what may well be the prettiest KO on the list, James Irvin stunned Houston Alexander in a bout that was expected to be pretty tame - at least, based on how they approached one another.

They met in the middle, felt each other out and then from nothing, a makeshift superman punch landed and that was all she wrote.

Before the head kick that was heard around the world, Leon Edwards was knocking guys out in