Joji Goto is placing his personal, ahem, twist on MMA.
For the second time in 4 months, Goto completed a battle in Spherical 2 by way of tornado submission, this time making Junya Hibino faucet to the uncommon submission at a RIZIN occasion Sunday in Nagoya, Japan.
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Tornado tap-outs are among the many rarest finishes in all of MMA, prompting RIZIN’s official English Twitter account to ask if that is the primary time its ever been completed within the historical past of the sport. Even when it isn’t, this isn’t solely two straight tornado submissions for Goto, it’s his second time closing the present with the maneuver in 4 months.
This previous June, Goto executed a nasty variation of the maneuver in his RIZIN debut towards Trent Girdham.
On the highest ranges of MMA, twisters stay an elusive end to achieve. For instance, the UFC octagon has solely performed host to a few such finishes: The Korean Zombie’s history-making tornado of Leonard Garcia of their second battle, Bryce Mitchell’s win over Matt Sayles, and Da’Mon Blackshear’s first-round end of Jose Johnson this previous August.
