Sherdog.com’s 2015 Submission of the Year

1. Ronda Rousey vs. Cat Zingano

UFC 184

Saturday, Feb. 28

Staples Center | Los Angeles

To many, martial arts are a sort of magic -- in every sense of the word. Magic in the sense that it is fascinating, mysterious and incomprehensible how a man or woman can train their body and mind to reliably do the opposite of what comes natural to most people, to fight instead of flee, to move to the side instead of step back, to maneuver into a counter instead of cover up.

Martial arts also evoke the same feelings of skepticism that magic does. There is a long, embarrassing history of ridiculous ideas that are founded in lore more so than actual combat, yet they have come to inhabit a mythological soma.…