The Submission of the Year field was wide open heading into the final UFC event of 2018.
There were miraculous buzzer-beating submissions, rarely-seen techniques pulled off from impossible angles, and maneuvers that had fighters twisted up so awkwardly that it wasn’t even clear what caused them to tap out. But when thinking about the best submission finish of the last 12 months, few could agree on the first to spring to mind, unlike previous years that saw the likes of Demetrious Johnson’s all-time classic “Mighty Wizbar” in 2017 or Ronda Rousey’s unforgettable 14-second armbar of Cat Zingano in 2015 that proved to be closer to the end of her dominance than the beginning.