MMA Fighting · Oct 8, 2017
Demetrious Johnson explains how he pulled off legendary submission against Ray Borg at UFC 216
There hasn’t been this kind of finish in the fifth round of a title fight since the “Showtime Kick.”
On Saturday night, UFC flyweight champion Demetrious Johnson hoisted Ray Borg in the air in a modified belly-to-back suplex and somehow landed in a fight-winning armbar submission. When Borg tapped at UFC 216 in Las Vegas, Johnson cinched the record for most title defenses (11) in UFC history. And boy did he do it with aplomb.
The suplex-into-armbar combination was historic — most people have not seen anything like it in MMA. Johnson, though, said it’s something he practices in training. No one has ever witnessed it for a reason.