Magician-daredevil David Blaine had mixed martial arts fighter and YouTube sensation Kimbo Slice deliver two vicious punches in his abdomen — and survived to talk about it, according to TheBlemish.com.

Blaine, who did the stunt for his "Dive of Death" special on ABC, referred to the death decades ago of famous magician Harry Houdini, who purportedly died of a ruptured appendix after asking a volunteer to hit him in the stomach.

In the video, Blaine is rocked back several feet after being hit but doesn't go down and appears basically unhurt by the hits.

Meanwhile, Blaine says he’s unhappy with how he ended his latest stunt: hanging upside-down without a net high over Central Park for 60 hours.

The 35-year-old endurance artist, who completed the stunt Wednesday night, expressed his disappointment in an appearance Thursday morning on “Live With Regis and Kelly.”

“I had dreamed up the most amazing ending for a stunt ever,” he said.

Blaine said his grand finale of diving from a platform 44 feet to the ground while attached to a harness didn’t go according to plan. He was supposed to jump and, at 10 feet, be swept away by a bunch of helium-filled balloons.

Instead, he dangled awkwardly for a moment before disappearing in an ascent into the night sky.

Blaine said ABC, which aired the event in a two-hour special called “David Blaine: Dive of Death,” had encouraged him not to dive because of high winds.

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“I wasn’t going to let everybody down, so I just jumped, and somehow the guys with the balloons made it work, and they pulled me slowly up and I went over into the park and they pulled me down,” he said.

Blaine added: “I know that it didn’t work right when all my friends called up and said, ‘Wait, what happened? I’m confused.”’

Did his head feel heavy with blood during his upside-down act?

“In the beginning it did,” he said. “At the end of the first day I thought I wasn’t going to make it. I didn’t know what I was going to do, but I didn’t want to disappoint everybody, so I kept pushing and going as hard as I could.”

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