MMAFighting 2008 Awards: Submission of the Year

[mmafighting]

What was the submission of the year? (http://www.mmafighting.com/poll/what-was-submission-year)

[reamark3]

Ishida on Wilcox. But lets do all of the awards in one thread, not 1 for each award... Not to tell you how to run things...

[gonar]

the hazlitt armbar was excellent. beautiful demo of how to use sophisticated BJJ in MMA.

Florian's RNC of stephenson was very slick.

the nate diaz double bird triangle was also pretty hot.

I suppose it shouldn't be surprising but the number of really slick submissions and the quality of ground work in both UFC and WEC seemed to really step up a notch this year.

[Thumpin]

My vote went to the gogo. I love seeing people land those.

[crazedwombat]

the diaz and florian both had great subs but still loving the burkman/hazelett sub best

[Serialkilla]

Gogo'a are great, but Aoki go that on a grappling dummy.

[niniendowarrior]

I'm shocked... Rashad tapping out Forrest should be there! :lol:

Is it too much to ask for animated gifs of the subs? I mean, I'd love to see all of them.

[Serialkilla]

http://i29.tinypic.com/2aesglg.jpg (http://mma-core.com/gifs/GifDetails.aspx?gid=10000272&tid=101)

[Serialkilla]

http://i28.tinypic.com/34pz2qh.jpg (http://mma-core.com/gifs/GifDetails.aspx?gid=10000207&tid=101)

[Serialkilla]

http://i34.tinypic.com/hvs6z4.jpg (http://mma-core.com/gifs/GifDetails.aspx?gid=10000376&tid=101)

[niniendowarrior]

Cool subs! :) Thanks Serial Killer!

[gonar]

I totally forgot about that hazlett sub, I was thinking about the one against mcCrorey.

two sub of the year candidates for hazlett.

[wgrapple]

Mclovin with the slick whizzer to armbar is my pick with Ishida's armbar getting the runner up nod.

[sportsgenius86]

Hazelett's armbar wins for me.

I know some people might not find this fair, but Aoki subbing someone has taken that "living by an airport" effect. I really don't even notice it anymore.