Dokonjonosuke Mishima does a little battering of Takanori Gomi on the ground. Those punches to the back of Gomi's are head are 100% legal. Shooto was the only MMA org that allowed that and wouldn't change those rules until 2008.

Dauren Ermekov surprises his opponent by sneaking a punch behind a front kick

Dauren Ermekov staples his opponent's calf to the mat and hits a nasty RNC with no hooks in

Fun scramble between Akopyan & Bukuev Akopyan fights grips to escape the back and circles off as Bukuev shoots in again, ending up trapping his arm inside the leg As Bukuev tries to posture up and finish the takedown, Akopyan uses a crotch lock to tilt him forward off balance

Aren Akopyan escapes the cage and goes hog wild on the break

Maharbek Karginov destroys Enrique Barzola by pairing his knee and left hand

Maharbek Karginov beats Enrique Barzola up in transition, standing him up with an uppercut, dumping him on his ass, then posting on his head and landing a knee as he stands back up

Alexander Grozin drops Felipe Froes with a body-head combo

Brandon Slay hitting outside step double legs Outside step entries are more direct than penetrating knee over toe and can be done from closer range

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Yan mogging Merab in transition, landing knees to the body when he turns out of back control on the cage

Yan with a cheeky little takedown setup

In his first fight with Yan, Merab smashed up and compromised his lead leg by the second round In this one, Yan checked a calf kick early in the fight and Merab largely abandoned them

Merab crashes forward with an elbow, bringing his rear leg forward to collapse the space between his shoulder and Yan's armpit, giving him a clean transition to a rear bodylock

Yan using his shin as a wedge to create space and peel Merab off his back or keep him from establishing position. A common tactic in Muay Thai to nullify clinchers and prevent them from bringing their hips in.

Barboza slipping inside Yusuff's jab and hooking the body

Merba draws out a counter and scores a crafty single leg entry on Cejudo

Yan cross checking Fig's body kicks

Yan countering Fig's body shots with a short little punch that hides his pivot off the cage

Yan changes levels and hits Yadong with a double uppercut

Petr Yan surprising Yadong with a cute little trip

Finish takedown to head-side -> hop over -> safe on top Finish to head side -> don't hop over -> fight for your life against elevators -> try not to get guillotined -> oh no kimura -> elevators again

Yaroslav Amosov and Matt Serra hitting outside step duck unders

One thing that makes Khabib's single leg on the cage so consistent is that he's conscious that one of the best ways to defend it is to fight his grip So he'll often secure wrist control and pin the wrist to the cage, then quickly lock hands & lift before they can strip his hands

Arman has some of the best ground and pound in the sport, and combines it wonderfully with his passing He postures up and smashes Hooker, then when Hooker folds into him to avoid punches, he crunches his head under his armpit to break his posture & pass to half guard

Sakuraba using leg kicks to set up his low single

One thing that's kinda neat about Tsarukyan is that his incredible flexibility and athleticism lets him kick hard and not worry too much about them getting caught.

TJ Dillashaw using a cute little shift to set up takedown entries

Shigeki Osawa takes Kyung Ho Kang to suplex city

Frankie Edgar setting up his knee pick with double jabs and jab feints

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🤼Josh Barr shoots a hard double and Trent Hidlay catches an underhook and just slings him by for his own takedown.

JDM's commitment to a high guard posed a big problem for his takedown defense against Islam Nearly every time Islam shot, a small feint would get JDM's hands up above his temples and clear an easy path to the hips He couldn't put pressure on the head & scramble up quickly

Rahman Amouzad dribbling Real Woods' head off the mat with a drop whip over

Marco Tulio hits an inside trip

Gabriel Bonfim smashes Randy Brown's rear leg

Daniel Marcos fakes a takedown to land an overhand

Ricky Simon landing the Krzysztof Jotko elbow

Lovely takedown defense by Barcelos He immediately hips in to stop Simon's momentum while he grabs a whizzer and reaches back. He can't get an underhook, but he gets his arm in front of Simon's face and is able to rotate his hips to deny him an angle

Barcelos shoots into a downblock, so he posts on the bicep and elbows instead

A big part of Barcelos' win over Simon was his ability to anticipate and counter Simon's level changes Early on he did that with uppercuts, but as he saw it more he started timing some gorgeous knees

Spinning attacks are some of the few techniques that work best from otherwise inferior angles CLD gets his leg booted across his body, making him face away from Tulio, but he rides the momentum into a spinning backfist

Raoni Barcelos has some sick uppercuts I love the way he plays with the trajectory of his rear hand, getting guys to duck his straight right into his uppercut, or using the uppercut to stand them up for the straight

CLD turns into Tulio with an underhook then hits a slick peak out when he looks for a front headlock attack

Gilbert Nakatani tees off with double collar tie knees

Gilbert Nakatani threatens knees to get his opponent blocking low, then uses a thigh pry/wrist control to jam his underhook and circle off the ropes, setting up an elbow

Ivan Bogdanov threatens a go behind and lands a sneaky punch in transition

Avazbek Kholmirzaev hits a sick polish throw

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Ali Abdulkhalikov catches a body kick and hits a slick trip