The 2023 Heavies' Awards: Submission of the Year - WINNER: GRASSO DEF. SHEVCHENKO!

[JayPettryMMA]

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Aaahhh, the French...submission has always been celebrated for its excellence. There is a California submission by Joe D'Arce, inspired by that same French excellence. It's taught in a Gracie school, and like the best French submissions, it's vintage-dated, so Joe D'Arce's superb...

Which Submission of 2023 set your hair ablaze, shook you down to your very core and had you racing to the nearest BJJ school to learn how to do it?

Abdoul Abdouraguimov def. Rafal Haratyk R5 4:35 via Submission (Kneebar) | Ares FC 11




Jon Jones def. Ciryl Gane R1 2:04 via Submission (Guillotine Choke) | UFC 285




Alexa Grasso def. Valentina Shevchenko R4 4:34 via Submission (Face Crank) | UFC 285




Louis Glismann def. Melvin van Suijdam R1 4:57 via Submission (Inverted Omoplata) | Oktagon 43




Olga Rubin def. Claire Guthrie R2 4:23 via Submission (Buggy Choke) | Invicta FC 53
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[PurpleStorm]

I voted Grasso over Shevchenko. It was a title fight. Valentina had never been submitted. As a Grasso fan since her Invicta days it was sweetly satisfying.

Thanks for the thread Jay! Happy new year!

 

[Kryptt]

I went Jones vs Gane cause

 

[BangBang]

Easy peasy lemon squeasy - Alexa Grasso

 

[Valhoven]

Have to go Glismann. I just love the pancratic tug of war with only two outcomes: a win, or noodle arms.

 

[LindyBrah]

Somehow Jones vs Gane is on here but no Davey Grant vs Raphael Assunçao?

 

[BEATDOWNS]

Goes easily to Alexa

 

[Bobby Boulders]

I voted for the buggy choke, mostly bc who knows when we see it again.

 

[JayPettryMMA]

Somehow Jones vs Gane is on here but no Davey Grant vs Raphael Assunçao?

If we had a top 7, that'd be on there along with Joji Goto's two-pack of twisters.

 

[LindyBrah]

If we had a top 7, that'd be on there along with Joji Goto's two-pack of twisters.

Only the fourth inverted triangle and a last ditch effort to win the bout isn’t on a list with a guy who subbed a kickboxer that quit / can’t wrestle. Es normal.

 

[Substance Abuse]

Glisman with the inverted Omo.

 

[Tronald Dump]

Agreed. Kneebar was pretty slick too.

Glisman with the inverted Omo.

 

[gentel]

I started with Grasso-Shevchenko but changed my vote to Abdoul Abdouraguimov def. Rafal Haratyk when I saw how Haratyk was smashing him with elbows before he turned the fight around by rolling for the kneebar

Anyways idk why Grasso's is listed as a face crank, it's an RNC and Shevchenko putting her jaw in the way doesn't change that

 

[StonedLemur]

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Aaahhh, the French...submission has always been celebrated for its excellence. There is a California submission by Joe D'Arce, inspired by that same French excellence. It's taught in a Gracie school, and like the best French submissions, it's vintage-dated, so Joe D'Arce's superb...

Which Submission of 2023 set your hair ablaze, shook you down to your very core and had you racing to the nearest BJJ school to learn how to do it?

Abdoul Abdouraguimov def. Rafal Haratyk R5 4:35 via Submission (Kneebar) | Ares FC 11




Jon Jones def. Ciryl Gane R1 2:04 via Submission (Guillotine Choke) | UFC 285




Alexa Grasso def. Valentina Shevchenko R4 4:34 via Submission (Face Crank) | UFC 285




Louis Glismann def. Melvin van Suijdam R1 4:57 via Submission (Inverted Omoplata) | Oktagon 43




Olga Rubin def. Claire Guthrie R2 4:23 via Submission (Buggy Choke) | Invicta FC 53
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Wheres Blackmons twister sir?
Those are common now?

 

[Poirierfan]

100% Grasso for me, or that just might be me crushing on her, i'm not too sure yet.

 

[SenorFranko]

Grasso

 

[HI SCOTT NEWMAN]

Voted: Glisman. Because it was a beautiful submission that is rare, very rare to see someone pull that off in a MMA fight.

 

[HHJ]

Grasso. Leapt into eternity.

 

[KOPPE]

 

[Natural Order]

Inverted omoplata ftw.