So whether you were the winner/loser, the puncher/punchee, or the kicker/kick face-ee, your blood, sweat, torn ACLs, broken bones and fingers that now bend the wrong way were not in vain. Daniel Zellhuber (14-1) used a right hand to hurt Christos Giagos (20-11) and eventually brought him to the ground and made him submit with an anaconda choke hold at the 3:26 mark of the second.

Instead it should simply be taken as an honor to have made the list at all. Joe Rogan has weighed in on how quickly Islam Makhachev made Charles Oliveira tap out with his fight-ending arm-triangle choke. The anaconda involves sliding one arm under the. He explains that creatures such as these would likely dwell in high-temperature/tropical environments such as the Amazon and Indonesia. This unique maneuver, typically executed on the ground, left spectators in awe as Ochoa managed to pull it off while standing in the cage. He recently appeared as a guest on The Joe Rogan Show, where he delivered a bone-chilling take about the probability of 50 ft anacondas being alive and somewhere out there. Now I, personally, would not worry too much about the exact order of the rankings. Mixed martial artist Jose Ochoa secured a remarkable victory by submitting his opponent with a standing anaconda at LFA 171.

Today we celebrate that brutality (because why not?) by providing rankings to you that could potentially age as poorly as cheering on helmet-to-helmet hits (also because why not?) This rundown of painful submissions, TKOs and busted eye sockets undoubtedly helped the UFC establish the massive global audience it's attained in an extremely abbreviated amount of time (seriously, it's not like 1993 is the damn Stone Age or something). Since then the sport has blown up, and though it's long since been legitimized as something much more technical and skill-oriented than pure brute thuggery (which is why it's legit, and not a burned out novelty) that is still very much a guilty pleasure of watching MMA fights. The event, which was broadcast on pay-per-view (duh) and later shipped in a now obsolete technology called 'home video,' had but two freaking rules for participants to abide by: 1.) No biting and 2.) No eye gouging.Įverything else was fair game, and the eight-person tourney was eventually won by Royce Gracie after he applied a rear naked chokehold to Gerard Gordeau in a final that took less than two minutes to wrap up. This past November the UFC celebrated the 24th anniversary of UFC 1: The Beginning, a modest competition that entertained 7,800 fans in a since destroyed Denver arena with a capacity far larger than that.

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