Okay, so I was playing Soul Cali on Dreamcast last night. I was fighting as Maxi and had made it to Inferno. Inferno had taken the form of Kilik (the guy with the staff) for the second battle. So, Inferno opens up the battle with Kilik's big extravagant attack where he spins the staff, jumps up real high, pausing about halfway across the ring, and descends, still spinning the staff, on the other side. Now, I'm sure that's a devastating move if you get caught up in it, but I was nowhere near it. As soon as he touched down, I ran right at him and hit him with a baseball-slide, knocking him RIGHT OUT OF THE RING! That's right. One. Simple. Hit. The whole thing lasted less than ten seconds. Funniest battle ever. I couldn't stop laughing.
...I don't think that'll ever happen to me again, though. Not in a million years.