With another action-packed year of MMA in the books, MMA Junkie takes a look at the best submissions from January to December. Here are the top five and winner of MMA Junkie’s “Submission of the Year” award for 2019. At the bottom of the post, let us know if we got it right by voting on your choice for “Submission of the Year.” * * * * Honorable mentions Aviv Gozali def. Eduard Muravitskiy at Bellator 225 It only took Aviv Gozali (3-0 MMA, 3-0 BMMA) 11 seconds to imanari roll his way into the fastest stoppage victory in Bellator history against Eduard Muravitskiy (9-9 MMA, 0-1 BMMA)
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