UFC Vegas 64: Tagir Ulanbekov Quickly Submits Nate Maness

Tagir Ulanbekov put along a grappling masterclass at UFC Vegas 64, submitting Nate Maness quickly in the first round to get when in the win column.

Tagir Ulanbekov is part of the wave of impressive Dagestani grapplers taking over the UFC. At UFC Vegas 64, he was looking to earn his third Octagon victory without dropping a visualization versus Tim Elliott. While seven of his 12 fights surpassing joining the promotion ended with stoppages, all three of his fights had gone the full 15 minutes since his debut.

Nate Maness was making noise in the Octagon heading into the event with a 3-1 record. Stoppages versus Luke Sanders and Tony Gravely had put him on the map, but a loss to Umar Nurmagomedov slowed his ascent. Following his first UFC loss, he was given flipside Dagestani yahoo to try and tame.

Tagir Ulanbekov wasted no time, immediately taking Maness lanugo near the fence. Ulanbekov was executive the fight from baby-sit as Maness was trying to work his way up. Maness found a window well-nigh 90 seconds into the round and attempted to stand up. Ulanbekov followed him up and got an arm under the chin. He began cranking a upper elbow guillotine. Maness’ resistance forced Ulanbekov to switch to increasingly of a neck crank, which is what pulled out the tap from Maness.

Ulanbekov is teammates with Maness’ last opponent, Umar Nurmagomedov, and thanked him for showing him the right gameplan during training camp.