Tywan Claxton recently secured a frontrunner for “Knockout of the Year” honors, but his reaction to it was rather simple: “The fight’s over, and I’ve got all of my teeth.”

On Friday’s Bellator 186 preliminary card, Claxton (1-0) blasted fellow featherweight Jonathan Bonilla-Bowman (1-1) with a flying knee – one that seemed to glide halfway across the cage – before the knockout video quickly went viral.

Here’s a clip of the KO, which streamed on MMAjunkie from Bryce Jordan Center on Penn State’s campus in University Park, Pa.:

During sparring sessions, Claxton said he often throws a few punches and then launches with a flying knee, which often gets a “calm down” warning from his teammates. Claxton, a former NCAA Division II wrestler, said it’s fun – but also can produce mixed results.

“Half the time, I really don’t know how to control it,” the 24-year-old said after the event. “Like, I almost went over (Bonilla-Bowman’s) head. But it’s fun to warm up with it, though. I’ll tell you that much.”

Claxton, who had a lengthy undefeated amateur run before turning pro for his Bellator 186 bout, hopes his buzzy win leads to bigger opportunities. He wants a big-name opponent, such as James Gallagher.

He said he also tried to troll Bellator top prospect Aaron Pico into a fight by sending a “gift” to his gym.

“Look, the thing with Pico is, if you send a man tampons to his gym and he doesn’t respond, you can’t say too much more because then you become a bully, and I’m not big on being a bully,” he said. “So I kind of backed off the Aaron Pico situation.

“If he ever wants to fight and prove his manhood, then let’s do it. If he doesn’t want to fight, I’m not going to pressure him to fight me. It kind of is what it is with him. I just thought that he was getting the hype, and I told him that was my hype, and I was going to take it.”

And for the rest of the division?

“It’s over,” he said. “It’s over. Grab a shovel. Dig your own grave. I’m coming for you.”

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