With another action-packed month in the books, MMA Junkie looks at the best submissions from June 2019: Here are the five nominees, listed in chronological order, and winner of MMA Junkie’s “Submission of the Month” award for June. At the bottom of the post, let us know if we got it right by voting for your choice. * * * * The Nominees Makwan Amirkhani def. Chris Fishgold at UFC on ESPN+ 11 There was a lots of online back-and-forth and fight week tension going into the featherweight encounter between Makwan Amirkhani (15-3 MMA, 5-1 UFC) and Chris Fishgold (18-3-1 MMA, 1-2 UFC). When the fighters got in the octagon, though, Amirkhani seemed to be a step ahead all along.
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MMA Junkie’s ‘Submission of the Month’ for June: A rare technique leads to a belt – MMA Junkie