Tonon is one of the best sub only grapplers in the world. He's not really worried about giving up position especially if he can get to inside sankaku or ashi garami which it sounds like he did.Tonon got him with the heel hook, not surprising but I really thought Aoki was going to avoid that. Oh well
He's been training boxing for the past year or two with Shyheim from his gym (renzos) amongst a few others. He actually doesn't have bad hands tbh but he's got some work to do. He'll explode knees at the lower levels of mma, though.Tonon is interested in doing MMA? News to me.
Yeah, I just thought Aoki would be able to hold it out for the time limit, wasn't expecting him to win or anything. Not surprising at all that Tonon did get him though, really nice roll into it while Aoki tried to take the back.Tonon is one of the best sub only grapplers in the world. He's not really worried about giving up position especially if he can get to inside sankaku or ashi garami which it sounds like he did.
Aoki is a tremendous grappler by MMA standards but Tonon heelhooked Imanari in like two minutes to put it in perspective.
For sure, he had both legs wrapped up. It was good while it lasted.Not surprising at all that Tonon did get him though, really nice roll into it while Aoki tried to take the back.
3rd round of Santos vs Kadestam, Askren's fight after this.What's next match? Askren?