Sherdog.com’s 2018 Submission of the Year

As is always the case when the time comes to put a ribbon around a calendar year in mixed martial arts, there are a great selection of finishes that deserve attention. The candidates for Sherdog.com’s 2018 “Submission of the Year” are no exception. Aljamain Sterling and Zabit Magomedsharipov gave us a double helping of the Suloev Stretch; Alexey Oleinik executed yet another Ezekiel choke; and Kazuyuki Miyata demonstrated an amazing hammerlock just before the page turned to 2019. However, it is hard to top making a world-class Brazilian jiu-jitsu player tap out, so the late entry of Ryan Hall heel hooking the legendary B.J. Penn gets the nod.

There were obviously doubts and concerns when it…