What's the most unique submission you've ever seen in MMA?

[Big Tuppy Hole]

shit is brutal when you get the day old stubble going

I like to feed my arm around the back of the neck and the grip there shoulder as a handle and use my weight and the squeeze of my shoulder and biceps to pull them up into the chin as I use my weight to push down

 

[StonedLemur]

Works really well in the gi or with a rash guard on, much harder to hit in mma where there’s no friction

When I watched that live I never thought Pete was tapping to that tbh, but once Frank cranked it I thought he was gonna tear his arm off lol.

 

[StonedLemur]

Then let's see the gif my Lemur friend.

That's the limpest extremity since Jon Jones forgot his dick pills.

I don't like this kid but he pretty much shows everything.

Watch from 3 minutes sir.

 

[ocfightfan]

Chonan with the flying scissors takedown into a heelhook on Anderson Silva

 

[mkt]

A punch to the buttocks can ended a career forever too.

Yeah, I'm quite sure we've seen a lot more long-term damage and CTE from simple punches than oblique kicks. And you can ask the opponents of Gerard Gordeau and Jon Hess (in my AV) how much damage can be done when you target someone's eyes.

 

[BOTTICELLI]

Mark Kerr in 1997 won by

submission

“Chin to Eye”

 

[Kenny Powerth]

I’m not sure if this was mentioned, but I gotta go with Alexy Olynk and the Ezekiel choke.

He pulled it off twice while bigger men were on top of him. The sheer shock of being submitted like that from the bottom just baffled people and all the while Alexy was well into his 40’s showing these young guns that he wasn’t done

 

[StonedLemur]

I’m not sure if this was mentioned, but I gotta go with Alexy Olynk and the Ezekiel choke.

He pulled it off twice while bigger men were on top of him. The sheer shock of being submitted like that from the bottom just baffled people and all the while Alexy was well into his 40’s showing these young guns that he wasn’t done

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My favorite is his standing Ezekiel choke on Albini, it was beautiful.

 

[StonedLemur]

Mark Kerr in 1997 won by

submission

“Chin to Eye”

I mentioned that in here, shit was funny lol.

 

[Cartiac]

My favorite sub, don't know what it's called but I haven't seen it done since. Toby Imada chokes out Jorge Masvidal.

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That was the first thing that came to my mind as well, also believe it was first time I had ever heard of Bellator.

 

[HeLLMuTT]

Michael Chiesa's one arm kimura against Carlos Condit was naaaaaasty!
Right at the beginning of this vid.

 

[ThinkGreen]

Dustin Hazelett had some good ones

 

[El Fernas]

Calf slicer? Whatever its name is, looks painful AF.

 

[StonedLemur]

Michael Chiesa's one arm kimura against Carlos Condit was naaaaaasty!
Right at the beginning of this vid.

The fact that DJ said he practiced that in the gym shows his level of thinking.

Carlos looked out of his depth there lol.

 

[StonedLemur]

Calf slicer? Whatever its name is, looks painful AF.

My friend got me in one of them, and Id rather get punched in the face honestly.

 

[StonedLemur]

There is probably an instance of mother's milk choke.

Lol

 

[Todd498]

Kerrs eye socket chin crush against Bobish hasn’t been duplicated I don’t think

 

[Chael_Sonnen]

Maurice Greene's arm triangle from the bottom on Gian Villante. Was both unique and hilarious. Pretty sure Villante just got tired and gave up.

 

[Sumomike]

Good calls with KZ's twister on Garcia and Nick's gogoplata on Gomi.

I like it when a lot of people are not quite sure what is happening or has happened...e.g., early Von Flue chokes, Rothwell's 'gogo choke', buggy choke setup, etc.

This made me think back to when I was 10 years old and watched Royce tap Severn with a triangle choke. At this time, I didn't know you could strangle someone with your legs.

 

[Joshuaace]

Watch from 3 minutes sir.

A "what really happened" breakdown that fails to even offer an explanation for the dead arm drop? I think that's the part most people were confused about, no?

Just entertain for a minute that the position of RL's right arm contributed to completing the choke, and the arm dropping released the choke. Think of a Von Flu for instance. How many times have you heard Cormier say, "You just have to let go of the headlock" to stop the choke? RL's arm dropping was the equivalent of letting go of the headlock in a Von Flu. Since the arm dropped right at the edge of uncosciousness, he regained alertness quickly.

tl;dr
If you view the arm drop as BOTH the moment of unconsciousness, and the release of the choke. Then everything after that makes perfect sense.