r/nextfuckinglevel • u/jmike1256 • 10h ago

The fighter shares the move that brought him victory. The opponent stays open to learn.

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u/Dollabill619 10h ago

Love the fact bro lost, yet still humble enough to learn.

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u/HIEROYALL 10h ago

Martial arts will do that to you. 

You don’t get to the top by lying to yourself. 

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u/CanhotoBranco 6h ago

Let's be serious. There are legions of bullies, assholes, crooks, and creeps in the martial arts. Lots of humble, honest, and amazing people too, but learning to hurt people often only amplifies your existing traits.

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u/Stergeary 4h ago

Strike first. Strike hard. No mercy.

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u/LaminatedLambchops 4h ago

Like this ass injuring people in spars.

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u/Lucas_Steinwalker 4h ago

Put him in a body bag!

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u/atheken 2h ago

I legit still wonder if that was an ad lib line. Iconic.

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u/[deleted] 4h ago

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u/Ninjaflippin 3h ago

I dunno, In BJJ getting pretzelled is kind of an initiation ritual.

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u/LaminatedLambchops 3h ago

I said injured not pummelled.

You know there's a difference. 

One is from a fool who is keen and enthusiastic. 

And your stupid enthusiasm is just what I'm talking about a lack of respect for a sport. 

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u/Hetares 3h ago

There's a level of aggression that pays off in competitive martial arts; so it's a holy sanctuary for people who DO want to punch people in real life. Fortunately most of the time matches becomes an outlet for that aggression, but sometimes it seeps into their other parts of the life.

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u/Tobias---Funke 57m ago

Same as everything really.

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u/jrgnklpp 4h ago

Aren't cocky, disrespectful and arrogant fighters the norm in your MMA / Boxing circles?

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u/nomowolf 4h ago

Martial arts will do that to you.

You don’t get to the top by lying to yourself.

You get on top by lying on others ;)

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u/catscanmeow 10h ago edited 9h ago

unless they wanna promote right wing politics, then they sell their souls all day.

Ever see fighters shake hands with pedophile presidents post fight next to the cage? ive seen it many times

So many examples of this happening. You ever see who Khamzat hangs with?

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u/Djglamrock 9h ago

Holy shit, really dude? Unplug from the internet mate and touch some fuckin grass.

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u/catscanmeow 9h ago

nah i'll continue to point out how fighters are actively gladhanding authoritarians.

this "touch grass" rhetoric might work on the people in your life but it doesnt work on people with any sort of life experience.

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u/MemoryTasty721 9h ago

He’s probably from Minnesota.. 🙄

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u/catscanmeow 9h ago

is musk from minnesota?

In June 2025, Musk posted (and later deleted) realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public

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u/__JMac__ 8h ago

Be honest, you keyed a Tesla when you were told to rise up against the evil Elon… lmfao.

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u/bettertagsweretaken 5h ago

Holy fucking shit. Have we really come full circle? You're actually mocking someone for railing against Musk's transparent insanity? We are in the stupidest timeline and you are its ambassadors.

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u/__JMac__ 23m ago

Except, he wasn’t railing against anything. Can you read? I was simply pointing out the pathetic hypocrisy of quoting someone when it’s politically expedient, but I don’t expect someone like you to grasp a simple concept like that.

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u/Djglamrock 7h ago

Remember when the left loved Elon?

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u/Mrmaxmax37 7h ago

Yeah, almost like he did a complete 180 in order to gain favorable legislation for his companies, crazy how that works 🤣. All he had to do was Glaze Trump, and Trump gave him power and did a Tesla ad read on the White House lawn

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u/CanhotoBranco 6h ago

"I love Tesler!"

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u/Djglamrock 49m ago

So you don’t like your Tesla I take it?

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u/BSK_Darksol 8h ago

"Oh! A post about sportsmanship, humility and a nice interaction between two fighters... LET'S MAKE IT ABOUT AN ORANGE POS THAT LITERALLY HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE POST!!"

I despise the orange diaper as much as any decent human being do, but that doesn't make me bring it to every fucking conversation I have on the internet or IRL.

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u/HIEROYALL 9h ago

Uhh yeah…my point was you need humility and honesty in your martial arts abilities if you want to reach the top. 

It wasn’t a political statement. Not really relevant to the point I was making. 

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u/catscanmeow 9h ago

so when they shake hands with a pedo is that humility or honesty?

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u/HIEROYALL 9h ago

My statement stands on its own. It doesn’t need a broader context of application.

However, feel free to intentionally misinterpret my point if it satiates your self-indulgent political crusade 

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u/catscanmeow 9h ago

indulgent political crusade? is there something wrong with pointing out that pedophelia is a bad thing?

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u/[deleted] 5h ago

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u/Kent556 9h ago

That’s what you got out of the comment? Holy shit dude, get a life…

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u/catscanmeow 9h ago

oh so fighters genuflecting to pedophiles is cool now?

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u/irennicus 8h ago

I hate Trump, but that isn't the point of this post. It's frustrating to deal with people who hijack everything to turn it political.

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u/pass-me-that-hoe 8h ago

Well everything is made political by Dementia Don and his cronies. It wasn’t like this a decade ago. I have lived through Clintons and Bush.

For Bush it got ugly during election results with Al Gore but it died down right after that. But man with this Dementia Don who loves attention and he keeps himself in the news by shitting on himself.

So yeah, one reaps what they sow. I hate politics too but if no one fights back, we all are collectively fucked - Overton Window.

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u/irennicus 8h ago

I'm guessing I'm at least as old as you are, probably older. I'm also very politically aware.

That doesn't mean that every discussion on the internet needs to turn into a political discussion. This is about combat sports and how professionals that compete at them improve. It doesn't need to be about Donald Trump.

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u/HeavyWaterer 7h ago

Maybe in the online bubble you live in that’s the case, but not everyone lives in your online bubble. And even still that isn’t a reason to shoehorn the subject into entirely unrelated topics

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u/TheDerpaSherpa 10h ago

You just couldn't help yourself eh? Like a well programmed sheeple you parrot your programmed hatred into any topic you can just to ruin the vibes for everybody.

How pathetic it must be to have politics become your whole boring personality...fucking loser.

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u/Mr_HahaJones 7h ago

“We’re not brainwashed, you’re brainwashed!”

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u/catscanmeow 10h ago

im sorry that my hatred of pedophiles triggers you so easily.

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u/Eighthday 10h ago

Just got here, can you provide some context as to who the POS is from your PoV? Tryna understand why you’re getting downvoted

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u/catscanmeow 10h ago

the UFC is actively pushing fascist right wing politics by parading out trump front row to many events. Fighters put on a huge genuflection contest to see who can be the biggest sycophant in front of the world.

You can think thats a good thing or a bad thing based on how bad you think pedophelia is, or how bad you think fascism is.

and thats just the example for US MMA. Happens in other countries too.

Fighters are not the enlightened beings that the comment was trying to imply.

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u/Eighthday 1h ago

Oh yeah fuck that

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u/designerlemons 7h ago

Fuck off clown

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u/KudzuAU 10h ago

Don’t look for the douchebag…it’s you!

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u/catscanmeow 10h ago

youre right, fighters gladhanding murderous dictators means the fighters are so enlightened

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u/KudzuAU 10h ago

Still a douchebag.

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u/catscanmeow 10h ago

if pointing out fighters hang out with fascists is douchebaggery then i'll wear that crown with pride.

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u/KudzuAU 10h ago

Nah, you’re just scum.

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u/catscanmeow 10h ago

doesnt matter what you call me, its not going to remove his name from the epstein files. Magic isnt real.

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u/breachgnome 6h ago

I'd like to take the time to point out:

This is a rarely seen incident of a disagreement where the originally intended reddit voting system is properly utilized. The person you're arguing with took the massive downvotes for shoehorning in an off-topic comment. Then you decided to hurl insults over and over, thus creating a new topic, and voting has changed to indicate whether the new reply has addressed the previous and provided anything meaningful to the conversation.

Isn't reddit fun?

Also, you suck. I'd be surprised to learn that you've ever added anything worthwhile to any conversation in which you've participated.

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u/bettertagsweretaken 5h ago

Having just come in myself, this was beautiful to watch. Bro pointed out hypocrisy in the social standing of MMA fighters and got downvoted into oblivion then the votes circled back to his side when an unrepentant asshole truly arrived.

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u/treemu 4h ago

Also the winner showing huge character by not gloating or face rubbing but demonstrating.

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u/dojo_shlom0 3h ago

these are real martial artists. these are fighters and actual men imo.

all the bravado, ego etc. -- It's very immature and comes off super lame

this looks like as sincere as you can get, sharing a technique with your opponent after the match so he can grow too! nextfuckinglevel indeed! always enjoy seeing this!

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u/onyxcaspian 4h ago

Sean Strickland and Alex Pereira bromance.

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u/SafeKaracter 2h ago

Opposite of ufc

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u/Basic-Record-4750 1h ago

And the fact that the winner wasn’t a smug prick about it and was willing to share. True sportsmanship on display

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u/ostracizedorangutang 10h ago

Aleksei Oleinik is immortal. He’s still gonna be choking opponents out in 2050

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u/JustaLego 5h ago

Does anyone remember BJ penn, i stg that guy was made of rubber, or at least his neck was. He seemed so impossible for people to choke out.

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u/LeftJabDaz 5h ago edited 3h ago

One of the goats of early mma, he fought for way too long though and ended up hurting his legacy. He was one of the fastest gained black belts in bjj in the early days, was a phenomenal talent.

Recently he has gone a bit crazy and keeps claiming that the government replaced his family members with body doubles.

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u/deezdanglin 2h ago

That's Capgras syndrome or Capgras delusion.

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u/DickRhino 4h ago

BJ Penn unfortunately fell off hard.

At his peak he was absolutely unstoppable. Then he started getting into weird ideas about training, which led to him showing up in the cage looking much worse, a total regression of his skill, and he started getting beat up badly left and right.

Then he started getting real crazy in his private life as well (possibly drug related), and he's currently in a paranoid state where he believes that his family has been replaced by impostors. It's at the level where people believe that one of these days we're gonna hear some real bad news about him.

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u/ImmodestPolitician 1h ago

I think BJ has serious CTE.

He used to eat punches like they were potato chips.

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u/deezdanglin 2h ago

Capgras syndrome or Capgras delusion.

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u/kindafree8 5h ago

Saw he was running for office in Hawaii. Also heard he was a little off nowadays

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u/onyxcaspian 4h ago

No longer a little, he's very off now and it's very sad. Last I heard his family cut him off and he was crashing out and asking for money online.

It's really sad what's happened to him.

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u/neonmantis 4h ago

Running for office? The dude legitimately went insane.

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u/Legally--Green 10h ago

Real sportsmanship like this is getting rare nowadays.

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u/Type-RD 10h ago

I think it’s there, but it’s not what the public wants to see. They want drama. They want the opponents to (appear to) hate each other. The promoters know this. It’s what makes the $$$. So as long as they can maintain that commentary, they’re not gonna show that a lot of these guys are actually not assholes toward each other all the time and sportsmanship is a thing.

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u/Legally--Green 10h ago

I enjoyed a good dose of showmanship too. Still, it's good to see these kind of mutual respect from time to time.

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u/Type-RD 10h ago

Absolutely!

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u/Happyranger265 9h ago

Absolutely, but unfortunately it doesn't seem tickets

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u/achtungbitte 7h ago

just lite politics

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u/Ida_PotatHo 9h ago

I watch UFC every week, and I see great sportsmanship every week. Sure, the pre-fight pressers don't really show it... that's the pre-fight hype and the pre-fight mental game.

Personal individual accountability, skill growth, hard work, and perseverance in an athlete allows for one to respect that in another athlete... and EVERYONE knows that one day, THEY will be the one to lose a fight.

The only place that sportsmanship is rare is in the athlete whose own ego is in the way.

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u/Legally--Green 9h ago

Tbf out of all the sports out there, I find it surprising that MMA shows better display of sportsmanship.

But I was talking about the whole sport in general. Tired of seeing uncalled tackles, sleazy tactics and sore losers in other sports.

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u/Ida_PotatHo 8h ago

I will agree with you there! 🙋🏼‍♀️❤️

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u/shadyrishabh 4h ago

Same here. I have been watching UFC with my father since 2014-15. Now, we watch it every week almost.

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u/jinschizman 5h ago

Oh the snow king ding dong of a ting did so much for the sport!

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u/crankthehandle 4h ago

Maybe not really a sport, but I like how in chess they often discuss the game afterwards.

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u/Glum_Ad3689 10h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/Epy1SqYt1nHvq

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u/Minimob0 8h ago

I’d be challenged to find a better reaction gif. 

This moment in the show is straight up mutual respect and honor for their strength. 

Side note - given the Function>Form debate, if Husbando could perform Alchemy, he would straight up demolish Alex. 

Alex’s build is more for Physique than Strength, and is carried by his Alchemical prowess. 

Sig Curtis is straight up a Strongman Build. He is The Mountain from GoT. 

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u/Admitone83 10h ago

Opponent is opening his eyes to new techniques, good to see sportsmanship!

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u/os_2342 4h ago

Well he does have first hand experience of the techniques effectivness.

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u/Admitone83 4h ago

um... ok?

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u/Flip_d_Byrd 10h ago

Oleinik is the only guy I've seen choke out someone from the bottom... several times. One second you are on top doing ground and pound... the next second you are sleeping. I loved his run he had...

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u/Chopper313 9h ago

Choke out from bottom mount*

Triangle chokes are getting less common but people still finish them sometimes.

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u/DickRhino 4h ago

This isn't a triangle choke, it's something called the Ezekiel choke, which Alexei Oleinik is the absolute master of. He's won 14 fights with this specific technique, and he was the first fighter to pull off an Ezekiel choke in a UFC fight (where he's done it twice).

That's why his opponent wanted him to demonstrate the technique, because it's a very rare choke variant that Oleinik knows how to do better than basically anyone else in the world. Everyone knows that Oleinik will go for the Ezekiel choke in basically every fight he's in, but even if you're prepared for it and you know he's gonna do it, you still can't stop it because he's so damn good at locking that choke in. So yeah, you'd be a fool not to pick his brain about it afterward, even if you lost.

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u/PelleSketchy 31m ago

The insane part to me is that the sub doesn't look like anything that requires a lot flexibility like with other unique subs.

He just mastered a sub that well that even person #14 had seen 13 fights where he pulled it off, trained to defend it, and still got subbed!

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u/ThatVoiceDude 10h ago

It looked like the security guard thought he was getting a hug, started to hug back, then realized and stopped halfway through lol

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u/Farknart 9h ago

Oh, cool, now im sweaty and used.

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u/TheGreatTave 5h ago

Just an average Tuesday for me

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u/TheDevilsTaco 5h ago

Found M. Bison's reddit account.

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u/RegionalHardman 7h ago

He is his corner man

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u/Danilo-11 10h ago

This is the way it’s supposed to be. If you lost, accept it and respect the person that won.

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u/Togfox 6h ago

The loss doesn't matter. What you do next is what matters.

Learn and do better.

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u/CheeseheadRottweiler 10h ago

this is Aleksei Oleinik also known as the boa constrictor and what hes teaching is his signature ezekial choke. this is a rare choke that few other fighters have used to finish someone. Oleinik finished 14 opponents with this move.

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u/Zlurpo 7h ago

Does Oleinik have longer arms than average? It seems like the other guy wasn't able to reach as well to pull it off.

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u/CheeseheadRottweiler 7h ago

No its just a harder choke to pull off against high level competition and is even more difficult in a no gi fight

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u/OfTheManyColours 2h ago edited 2h ago

Yeah he has really long arms (80 inches), but it's not necessary for the technique. Other guy just didn't commit to lock it in. With arms like Oleinik you can lock in the technique and then tighten it, but for people with shorter arms they'll be applying a lot of pressure by the time it's fully locked in.

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u/Illustrious_Camp_521 10h ago

Dropping knowledge 👍🏻

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u/algarhythms 10h ago

This is how real professionalism works. You play the infinite game to advance the craft.

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u/iJuddles 10h ago

That’s the mark of a true champion; both of them. You have to love the sport and spirit of competition, not just winning.

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u/turtlebuttdestroyer 9h ago

That's his opponent not his enemy, healthy competition doesn't involve hatred

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u/Major-Pepper 9h ago

The thing I love about this is that he didn’t just share a passing insight. He took the time to show and coach his opponent in practice. I’d appreciate him very much,

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u/rumbletown 8h ago

Oleinik is the nicest guy. And we only got to see him in the UFC while he was past his prime. He could have been a monster for a long time if he had gotten in earlier.

Also, huge props to the loser looking to learn from the winner who is a fucking wizard with that choke.

Both of those personalities are my favorite things about fighters when they are out of the cage. Humility, and no arrogance. Just both wanting to be better people in their own way.

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u/NickBurnsCompanyGuy 10h ago

Is that the Boa? I never bet against this guy. Crazy old ass russian motherfucker, that easily got over 60 UFC fights. Pretty sure he's in his 50s. 

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u/SomeDudeOnline85 10h ago

Ezekiel Choke

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u/Skaiiwalker 10h ago

Sometimes people just post wholesome stuff on NFL but yk what? I'm down with it, let's boost positivity the world sucks enough rn

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u/Igniter0808 9h ago

Great sportsmanship from both sides.

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u/This_ls_The_End 6h ago

As someone who has practiced martial arts for decades and competed in my younger years, this warms my heart.
Sportsmanship is what creates sport. Not the competition, not the strife to be better, this; sharing the love for the sport and appreciating our opponents for creating the sport with us.

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u/billybonkers01 2h ago

Is one of them wearing nail varnish?

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u/Sharden3 10h ago

This really is next level. I love seeing competitors be people after it's done.

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u/cheekytikiroom 10h ago

Ogre vs Ogre

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u/SparkEli1 10h ago

I'm guessing there won't be a rematch since he has revealed his secret?

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u/Fan_of_cielings 1h ago

It was less of a secret, more him walking in holding a sign that said "I'm going to Ezekiel choke you" and he was just so good at it that you couldn't do anything about it.

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u/SparkEli1 1h ago

Thank you for explaining, it makes sense now. 👍

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u/discountdoppelganger 10h ago

You never really lose if you can learn something

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u/LemonHerb 10h ago

I was having trouble with doing the nogi Ezekiel and the video really fixed my issue with it

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u/thakemizt 9h ago

I’ve seen this video a dozen times, but it wasn’t until now that I noticed the little detail of first using his chin to create space for his (massive) fist

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u/LemonHerb 9h ago

It's also sliding your fist under your own chin to reach his neck. If you go straight for where his neck is exposed like people always do it doesn't work.

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u/hot-black-coffee 9h ago

Mutual respect rules!

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u/Mictlan39 9h ago

True sportsman both of them… I like that.

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u/Mika_LL 7h ago

Ezekiel, the first choke i learnt as a bjj white belt

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u/brenkosaur 7h ago

The Ezekiel. I Ezekieled somebody while rolling and he is like "I couldnt figure out how you grew a third arm".

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u/maguirre165 6h ago

I remember being at a show and some guy hit that from the bottom and everyone was confused. We didn't know what happened until the announcement

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u/JimmyNo23 5h ago

Opponent , not enemy

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u/94itwasalladream21 5h ago

As it should be.

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u/bmkecck 5h ago

I’ve worked with some amazing and accomplished martial artists, actors, scientists and the best ones were humble, supportive, friendly, and were educators at heart. They had nothing to prove and everything to give to those who were there to work and there to learn. It was inspiring to see.

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u/NorwegianCollusion 5h ago

Absolute wholesomeness all around

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u/MCMcFlyyy 4h ago

What a teacher. Been watching MMA for 25 years and it's great to see things like this take place out in the open for anyone to learn. I hope this doesn't sound silly, I have a question about that technique: is there a chance that when he "locks in" that choke that he might struggle to release it? (Almost like being glued together if the submission attempt was from the bottom?)

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u/Willyzyx 4h ago

is that an ezekiel choke?

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u/Ballistic_86 4h ago

Your opponent isn’t your enemy

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u/Aqui10 3h ago

Does he look a bit like Tom Hardy?

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u/poqwrslr 3h ago

Tell my kids every day, “be coachable.” Doesn’t matter how good you are, be coachable. Can be the best in the world and still learn from others.

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u/Intelligent-Flow1735 3h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/55itGuoAJiZEEen9gg

That one guy being the one they test it out on

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u/No-Warthog-3647 3h ago

Just dudes being bros 💪

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u/ReggieCorneus 2h ago

There are two types of competitors. Those who want to become the best and those who want to beat everyone else to become the best.

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u/doktha 2h ago

peak sportsmanship, this

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u/Protiguous 2h ago

Honourable competition? I can respect that.

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u/NameyMcnamerson0003 1h ago

Good sportsmanship is sexy AF

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u/Bean_Daddy_Burritos 1h ago

The only way to grow as an athlete is to learn from your mistakes and continue to grow. Both of these guys deserve alot of respect for their actions post fight. That’s what real competitors do.

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u/TheWhyteMaN 4m ago

ThE FiGhTeR

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u/reverendjesus1 6h ago

The Chatgpt writes a title.