5. Bryce Mitchell steals the show
Storylines were aplenty coming out of the card. Aspen Ladd rebounded from her first loss with one of the best corner-advice-to-fight-execution moments I’ve ever seen, Rob Font finally put consecutive wins together again and Makhmud Muradov sent Trevor Smith’s mouthguard flying into press row with one punch.
None of that compares, though, to the work of “Thug Nasty” [autotag]Bryce Mitchell[/autotag] (12-0 MMA, 3-0 UFC), who pulled off just the second twister submission finish in UFC history, making Matt Sayles (8-3 MMA, 1-2 UFC) his victim.
It’s hard to overstate what a win like that can do for a prospect like Mitchell. He already has the personality and the undefeated record, but now he has a legitimately memorable highlight-reel moment on his resume. The finish went viral, and the added notoriety is only going to help raise the tide of his career from all angles.
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