How slick is Adam Wieczorek’s submissions game off his back? Slick enough that, even though he couldn’t do much to stop Arjan Bhullar’s takedowns at UFC on FOX 29, he did manage to pull off only the second omoplata finish in UFC history.
How rare is this submission? Forget thinking about the last time you saw one work in the UFC (it was Ben Saunders’ win over Chris Heatherly at UFC Fight Night 49 in 2014). Instead, think back to the last time you saw even a serious attempt at one in the UFC (possibly also Saunders vs. Heatherly in 2014).
It just isn’t a submission that typically works in high-level MMA. And yet now it’s responsible for Bhullar’s first professional loss. How does that even happen?
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