You Need to See This ‘Mortal Kombat’ Themed Olympics Routine

Have you ever ever thought, “what would Mortal Kombat appear like on ice?” If that’s the case, look no additional than the Winter Olympics to see the way it’d fare.

On Saturday, Georgian determine skaters Anastasiia Metelkina and Luka Berulava did a efficiency based mostly on the favored preventing recreation, with Berulava dressed as Sub-Zero and Metelkina as Kitana. Your entire efficiency, which you’ll see under, has some enjoyable nods to the video games: not solely does the iconic theme song play, the skaters bounce again and power like idle animations within the earlier video games, they incorporate primary assaults into their routine. It’s an excellent efficiency, and the judges appeared to agree, because it earned 75.46 factors and the pair positioned silver behind Japan’s Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara.

Superior efficiency! Mortal Kombat makes a particular look on the winter Olympics! @MortalKombat @noobde pic.twitter.com/dD4DVJNIhd

— The Freelancer (@TehFreelancer) February 22, 2026

Mortal Kombat has been referenced loads of occasions in well-liked tradition, and often in music or simply by being performed or referenced in motion pictures or TV. It doesn’t at all times get an enormous sports activities push, although—except you probably did band or went to soccer video games in highschool, through which case, you most likely heard a model of the theme each on occasion. Its inclusion right here within the Olympics is fairly cool, and speaks to the franchise’s enduring legacy regardless of it possible being MIA for the subsequent few years as NetherRealm works on its next game. At the least we’ve obtained the second reboot movie in a couple of months.

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