With one other action-packed month of MMA within the books, MMA Junkie seems to be at the very best submissions from October 2024: Listed below are the 5 nominees, listed in chronological order, and winner of MMA Junkie’s Submission of the Month award for October.
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Nominees
Nominee: Courtroom McGee def. Tim Means at UFC 307
Courtroom McGee (22-13 MMA, 11-12 UFC) the job finished at house when he arguably wanted to most towards Tim Means (33-17-1 MMA, 15-14 UFC) for his first octagon end since October 2010.
McGee’s sport plan seemed to be executed to a tee. He dragged Means from the clinch to the bottom, largely avoiding injury, and labored for the again of Means, which he finally discovered for the rear-naked choke and faucet.
Nominee: Ryan Spann def Ovince Saint Preux at UFC 307
Ryan Spann (22-10 MMA, 8-5 UFC) as soon as once more confirmed what he’s able to when he’s on high of his sport with a vicious end of Ovince Saint Preux (27-18 MMA, 15-13 UFC).
Together with his again towards the wall on a three-fight dropping skid, Spann got here out of the gate and damage Saint Preux early within the gentle heavyweight bout. As his opponent tried to get well, Spann snatched the neck and compelled his method on high with a guillotine choke that compelled Saint Preux to frantically faucet out in simply 95 seconds.
Nominee: Taha Bendaoud def. Tariq Ismail at PFL: Battle of the Giants
Taha Bendaoud (4-0) pulled off a outstanding comeback towards Tariq Ismail (8-1), rallying from a tricky pair of rounds to tug off a miraculous submission late within the second of the featherweight contest.
Nominee: Jonathan Micallef def. Mohamed Ado at Dana White’s Contender Sequence 76
In a transition-filled grapple-fest, Jonathan Micallef put Mohamed Ado to sleep to earn a UFC contract of their welterweight conflict.
Micallef (7-1) locked in a slick triangle choke on the halfway level of the opening spherical and in a matter of seconds Ado (5-1) was taking a nap on the canvas whereas the winner celebrated his massive second.
The winner
The winner: Khamzat Chimaev def. Robert Whittaker at UFC 308
Khamzat Chimaev returned in emphatic trend.
Chimaev (14-0 MMA, 8-0 UFC) ran by means of former champion Robert Whittaker (27-8 MMA, 17-6 UFC) to safe a face crank submission on the 3:34 mark of Spherical 1. The middleweight bout was the UFC 308 co-main occasion at Etihad Enviornment in Abu Dhabi.
Lower than 20 seconds into the battle, Chimaev stormed in with a takedown. He was capable of get one hook in as he labored for the rear-naked choke. Whittaker defended effectively, as Chimaev continously tried to tug him down. Chimaev lastly took his again, however Whittaker exploded out. Nevertheless, Chimaev was capable of soar on his again once more. His strain proved to be an excessive amount of as he was lastly capable of get throughout Whittaker’s face, forcing him to faucet shortly.
Nonetheless undefeated, Chimaev matched his power on the mic, urging the UFC to provide him a title shot.
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