Despite being not even one full month into the new year yet, 2018 has already provided us with some excellent fights, knockouts, and submissions in the world of MMA.
Let’s start with the submissions.
This month we saw everything from the simplistic rear naked chokes all the way to keylocks and calf-slicers. We saw fighters like Darren Elkins get arguably the biggest win of their career via choke, and we saw rising prospects like Rasul Shovhalov pull off an incredibly slick triangle-armbar out of nowhere.
However, neither of those earned the nod this month.