The 2022 Heavies' Awards - Submission of the Year Winner: Jiri Prochazka

[HockeyBjj]

Submission of the Year

Alright, a year back into packed houses for PPVs, some fight night's getting on the road, and plenty of people going tap, nap, or snap. Which one though, was the absolute best submission of 2022?

4/23/2022- Jessica Andrade submits Amanda Lemos with the first ever standing arm triangle choke in the UFC

4/23/2022- Claudio Puelles subs Clay Guida with a super slick kneebar from bottom half guard


5/13/2022- Is it a buggy choke? Is it a modified triangle? Either way, Oliver Enkamp's submission of Mark Lemminger at Bellator 281 was a unique one for sure

6/12/2022- Down on the scorecards and submitting a submission specialist with less than a minute to go to win Jiri Prochazka the belt from Glover Teixeira. It doesn't get much better in the script department than that


6/24/2022- I don't know if this is a rib crushing body triangle, or a wonky twister- but a little column A little column B looks extremly painful as Stevie Ray defeats Anthony Pettis with it at PFL 5


7/29/2022- Keeping up with the 2 for the price of 1 submissions, here is Jean-Paul Lebosnoyani defeating Caleb Hall at LFA 137 with a combination scarf hold/keylock


9/23/22- A lot of coaches teach that you should let go of a sub attempt if you're in danger of losing position chasing it. Luca Poclit apparently missed that class as he choked Dante Schiro out with a reverse arm triangle choke at Bellator 285

11/5/22- It's gotta feel nice to have your choice of how to make your opponent tap in a fight. That was what Mario Bautista did to Benito Lopez with his reverse triangle armbar



Massive shout out to @KazDibiase , most of these gifs are his handywork​

 

[HockeyBjj]

Vote! Include any honorable mentions as well!

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

Jiri with the hail mary on the biggest stage.

 

[The_Renaissance]

Jiri, the context of it is insane and with it coming in the dying seconds of an absolute classic title fight war.

 

[Gio]

I remember watching that Luca reverse armbar live while hanging out on the pbps and saying that's gotta be the sub of the year. Never seen anything like it before.

 

[Shay Brennan]

A white belt submitting a world class black belt, who was never submitted before in one of the best fights of all time.
It just has to be Jiri's RNC over Glover.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

For me it was this one comfortably



Lazy King bless.

 

[Dirty Frank]

Weili submitting Carla with that guillotine via crucifix (I'm a casual so I have no idea what that's called) should be in here

 

[Dirty Frank]

For me it was this one comfortably



Lazy King bless.

DAAAAAMMMMMN. That was sick.

Why's he called Lazy King by the way?

 

[Hellowhosthat]

DAAAAAMMMMMN. That was sick.

Why's he called Lazy King by the way?

Because he's lazy lol. Not in the cage though.

 

[Dirty Frank]

Because he's lazy lol. Not in the cage though.

oh.

 

[Jackonfire]

Andrade for me for doing something that had never been done.

(and I might still be a little salty over Glover losing like that)

 

[PurpleStorm]

Good thread.

I voted for Jessica Andrade because she got the first ever standing arm triangle choke in UFC history. That was badass. Amanda Lemos sinks to the ground like ‘I can’t believe it.’

 

[TempleoftheDog]

Andrade takes this easily for me. Any standing sub is pretty badass.

 

[Poatan Power]

A standing arm triangle is pretty sick, but they are all pretty slick/sick.

Getting that armbar/triangle from the back is one of the coolest things you can pull off in BJJ, god forbid MMA, though.

 

[You Will Vote For Dreyga]

Going with with Andrade and that triangle choke

 

[PurpleStorm]

Submission bump.

 

[Reign009]

This should at least be an option:

The entire sequence was beautiful. Came off of Carla's takedown. Weili stuffs it, scrambles and counters Carla, rolling her over in this position. She traps Carla's right arm, rendering it useless to defend the choke.

You just don't see this often. (If at all.)

 

[mjfan23]

Jiri due to the stakes involved

 

[Fox by the Sea]

jiri did a good job