You Should 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 combating recreation, with Berulava dressed as Sub-Zero and Metelkina as Kitana. All the efficiency, which you’ll be able to see beneath, has some enjoyable nods to the video games: not solely does the iconic theme song play, the skaters bounce again and pressure like idle animations within the earlier video games, they incorporate fundamental assaults into their routine. It’s a very good 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 standard tradition, and normally in music or simply by being performed or referenced in films or TV. It doesn’t at all times get a giant sports activities push, although—until you probably did band or went to soccer video games in highschool, during 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 doubtless being MIA for the following few years as NetherRealm works on its next game. At the very least we’ve obtained the second reboot movie in a number of months.

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