Filed under: News , Radio Highlight , UFC , Videos Von Flue choke finishes aren’t exactly common in the UFC, so when Ovince Saint Preux managed to make a third octagon victim that way, the general reaction was of slight befuddlement. If you know that’s your opponent’s go-to move, many asked, why would you fall for it? Still, that’s just what former middleweight title challenger Yushin Okami did in September in Japan, at UFC Fight Night 117 . At the time, even Saint Preux himself admitted to being “quite surprised” that his opponent would even grab his head. But at the same time, Saint Preux and his team have worked on this move long enough that he can find the finish from basically any position. And he’s seen it in action often enough to know just how hard it is to escape once he is able to get ahold of his opponent’s arm.
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