He really is the greatest of all time.

Kimura (Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu), chicken wing/double wristlock (wrestling), or reverse keylock are terms used to specify a medial keylock known in judo as gyaku ude-garami (reverse arm entanglement) or simply as ude-garami. The application is similar to the americana, except that it is reversed. It needs some space behind the opponent to be effective, and can be applied from the side control or guard (or half guard or even full-mount). Contrary to the americana, the opponent's wrist is grabbed with the hand on the same side, and the opposite arm is put behind the opponent's arm, again grabbing the attacker's wrist and forming a figure-four. By controlling the opponent's body and cranking the arm away from the attacker, pressure is put on the shoulder joint, and depending on the angle, also the elbow joint (in some variations the opponent's arm is brought behind their back, resulting in a finishing position resembling that of the hammerlock). The kimura was named after the judoka Masahiko Kimura, who used it to defeat one of the founders of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Hélio Gracie. (from wikipedia)

An inspired and beautifully executed kimura from guard/triangle position by Joe Lauzon

Sakuraba applies a phenomenal standing kimura to take down Renzo Gracie

Here Fedor Emelianenko shows some finer points of applying the keylock.

David v Goliath fights

Emanuel Yarbrough Vs Daiju Takase.

Emelianenko Fedor vs Hong Man Choi

Ricco Rodriguez vs Marcelo Garcia (BJJ)

A spectacular Carlos Condit knockout.

The Power of One - Evan Tanner.

It was the 1970s, somewhere in Arkansas. He was about six years old, riding with his mother in the family’s Volkswagen van while his stepfather, a man he regarded as a stranger, sat at the steering wheel. A tire blew out, forcing them to the shoulder. On closer inspection the parents realized they didn’t have a working jack.

“What we need is a big, flat rock,” the mother said.

The quiet boy spoke up. “I saw a big rock back there,” he said, pointing back down the road.

“Get back in the car,” one of the adults said. They returned to the task of lifting the crippled car.

It’s impossible to say what passed through the boy’s mind in that moment, beneath his buzz cut. Almost certainly, though, he sensed in those days that his family was fracturing around him. His father had left when he was a baby, and his mother moved in with his stepfather, but the boy and the new man never developed a relationship. Later his mother, who struggled with depression, would move out when Evan was in high school, leaving him to more or less raise himself while living with his older brother.

On this day, though, on an Arkansas roadside, Evan could do something.

His mother looked up and saw her little boy staggering toward them. In his arms he carried an enormous, flat rock, so heavy that his legs bowed under the weight. A rock that could, he hoped, solve their troubles. A rock to prop them up, if only for a little while.

(Excerpt from the Men's Journal article "Evan Tanner's Final Test" by Matthew Teague)

Submission Victories

Uriah Faber

"filthy" Tom Lawler

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I've been a Joe Lauzon fan since The Ultimate Fighter: Penn vs Pulver and it just so happens he's fighting an English guy, Curt Warburton, this weekend at UFC on Versus 4, after a disappointing loss to Australia's own George Sotiropoulous.  I believe the fights will even be screened on Facebook.  Who'd have ever thought that MMA would push so far into the mainstream?

Probably everybody.

Anyways, can't wait to see this guy fight again, hopefully he'll tear it up and put on a BJJ clinic, just like his fight with poor old Gabe Ruediger.   

Dana White and Fedor Emelienenko by Dan Panosian

George Saint-Pierre by Nathan Fairbairn

Nick Diaz by Rev. Dave Johnson

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