Fresh off his slick arm-triangle choke win over Cub Swanson which earned him...

Fresh off his slick arm-triangle choke win over Cub Swanson which earned him submission-of-the-night honors at UFC on Fox 1, Ricardo Lamas was awarded his brown belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu by trainers Daniel Valverde and Cesar Carneiro.

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That's.... weird.

Every source I saw had him as brown belt before the fight.

by Balrog on Nov 14, 2011 5:51 PM EST reply actions

Bam!

http://twitter.com/#!/RicardoLamasMMA/status/78931622606536705

(I’d quietly slip in this video as a replacement and act like the first article never happened.)

by Balrog on Nov 15, 2011 12:41 AM EST up reply actions

anyone else think Poirier should have gotten SOTN?

You Come At The King, You Best Not Miss

by Our Bovine Public on Nov 14, 2011 6:14 PM EST reply actions

I do.

by PelvicThrust on Nov 14, 2011 6:24 PM EST up reply actions

Kind of

It was lovely to see some diversity in the chokes used over the night.

Bad Left Hook

"All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him." - Jack Dempsey

by Drunken cutman on Nov 15, 2011 12:34 PM EST up reply actions

I loved that arm triangle. Swanson was getting really complacent spamming the same move over and over again and Lamas used that to set up his own submission. Just brilliant

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by StevenGiles on Nov 14, 2011 7:23 PM EST reply actions