2011 MMA Submission of the Year (Poll)

Cammo101 · Post #1 » by **Cammo101** » Sun Dec 11, 2011 10:36 am

This was popular last year, so I did it again.

Post #2 » by **CPT** » Sun Dec 11, 2011 11:52 am

TWISTER!

Posey H8er · Post #3 » by **Posey H8er** » Sun Dec 11, 2011 7:32 pm

somewhere Eddie Bravo is still very happy

Bernman · Post #4 » by **Bernman** » Sun Dec 11, 2011 7:37 pm

Can't decide between the Zombie's twister and jumbo LHW Richard Hale's inverted triangle.

Nemesis21 · Post #5 » by **Nemesis21** » Sun Dec 11, 2011 7:42 pm

Mir's sub win over Big Nog. I'm still shocked.

Cammo101 · Post #6 » by **Cammo101** » Mon Dec 12, 2011 1:32 am

I feel like Magalhaes' gogoplata would be in the mix here if more people had seen it. Pretty sick.

K1NG · Post #7 » by **K1NG** » Mon Dec 12, 2011 5:20 am

I ultimately went with Mir, since he had just recovered from damn near getting KTFO. Can't forget about the beautiful transition too.

Nemesis21 · Post #8 » by **Nemesis21** » Mon Dec 12, 2011 5:24 am

K1NG wrote:I ultimately went with Mir, since he had just recovered from damn near getting KTFO. Can't forget about the beautiful transition too.

Agreed.

REDDzone · Post #9 » by **REDDzone** » Mon Dec 12, 2011 5:39 am

K1NG wrote:I ultimately went with Mir, since he had just recovered from damn near getting KTFO. Can't forget about the beautiful transition too.

Hopping across Nog's body. Just tooled a submission legend on the ground...while rocked during the start of the sequence.

Post #10 » by **blkout** » Mon Dec 12, 2011 6:43 am

Went with the inverted triangle, with the twister second. Magalhaes gogoplata was sick, I wish he didn't think he was a kickboxer he could have been a monster in the UFC if he stuck to his strengths.

Post #11 » by **Manhattan Project** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 2:34 am

Went with the twister, first one in UFC history IIRC. The Mir submission was pretty damn impressive and if that wins it wouldn't shock me at all.

Cammo101 wrote:I feel like Magalhaes' gogoplata would be in the mix here if more people had seen it. Pretty sick.

I hadn't seen that, had to youtube that one. Pretty damn good.

Post #12 » by **singh_shady** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 4:37 pm

REDDzone wrote:
K1NG wrote:I ultimately went with Mir, since he had just recovered from damn near getting KTFO. Can't forget about the beautiful transition too.

Hopping across Nog's body. Just tooled a submission legend on the ground...while rocked during the start of the sequence.

The Gracie breakdown on the submission was great, as always. Really underrated degree of difficulty. Given the circumstances and who he finished, I think SOTY clearly goes to Mir

Doomsta · Post #13 » by **Doomsta** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 1:39 am

i voted for mir, but i regret it, that twister by chan sung was too good, too much skill to pull that off

SDM · Post #14 » by **SDM** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 1:37 pm

blkout wrote:Went with the inverted triangle, with the twister second. Magalhaes gogoplata was sick, I wish he didn't think he was a kickboxer he could have been a monster in the UFC if he stuck to his strengths.

Yeah, during TUF dude was tapping out guys I think would kill him now if he insists he's a striker. He's got the high-level BJJ malady-- can twist you into knots as long as you don't hit him hard because he really doesn't like it.

Post #15 » by **CPT** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 1:51 pm

Too bad, because the 205 pound division is missing an elite submission guy.

There are very good ones, but none that use it as their primary weapon.

Starkiller · Post #16 » by **Starkiller** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 2:54 pm

Had to go with the twister.

Post #17 » by **Shaazzam** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 4:23 pm

Because of the circumstances and who he submitted I had to go with Mir.

If I saw the flying triangle live, as I was getting to my seat dammit, I might have gone with it. All incredible subs, and really the Kimura isn't a very exciting one, but he broke Big Nogs arm after almost getting knocked out and then reversing a sub!

Big Nog!

Gold Chain · Post #18 » by **Gold Chain** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 9:22 pm

I am going to take Jones with the rear-naked choke on Rampage.

That was the point I knew we were seeing a guy that could basically win a fight in any situation in the cage.

But the twister looked nasty, as did Mir's arm-assault on Nog.

Myth111 · Post #19 » by **Myth111** » Sat Jan 7, 2012 12:04 pm

http://espn.go.com/mma/story/_/id/74312 ... wards-2011

Submission of the year: Frank Mir's Kimura of Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira. Top moments of the year aren't necessarily reserved for the flashiest performances. Basic techniques done well can distill into MMA's most impressive results just the same. In the case of Frank Mir's arm- and gut-wrenching finish of Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, they can be their most vicious too. Many of this sport's most dramatic moments come during submission battles, as was the case when Mir, badly hurt by Nogueira's strikes, countered an attempt by the Brazilian heavyweight to finish by choke. Acting on instinct, Mir reversed Nogueira's pressure and properly isolated the former Pride and UFC heavyweight champion's right arm. They struggled and rolled around the canvas. Tension among fans at the Air Canada Centre matched the torque Mir exhibited on Nogueira's limb. Then, pop! The arm was snapped -- gory stuff that forced Nogueira into surgery and Mir back into heavyweight contendership. Sub of the year was the closest category among voters. Chan Sung Jung's brilliant twister on Leonard Garcia (26 percent) and Jon Jones' conscious-robbing guillotine over Lyoto Machida (28 percent) made it a good race against Mir-Nogueira's 36 percent.

REDDzone · Post #20 » by **REDDzone** » Sat Jan 7, 2012 7:21 pm

Someone needs to break this tie.