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

Have you ever ever thought, “what would Mortal Kombat seem like on ice?” In that 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. All the efficiency, which you’ll be able to see under, has some enjoyable nods to the video games: not solely does the iconic theme song play, the skaters bounce again and drive like idle animations within the earlier video games, they incorporate primary assaults into their routine. It’s a great 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 widespread tradition, and often in music or simply by being performed or referenced in films or TV. It doesn’t all the time get a giant sports activities push, although—except you probably did band or went to soccer video games in highschool, during which case, you in all probability heard a model of the theme each every now and then. 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 following few years as NetherRealm works on its next game. Not less than we’ve bought the second reboot movie in a number of months.

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