The pace certainly slowed in the realm of MMA in May, especially after the UFC’s extraordinarily busy April.
The UFC produced just two events in May, while smaller organizations like Bellator MMA and the World Series of Fighting each laid dormant.
Even with just a small cluster of fights to choose from, a submission from one of the UFC’s most feared Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioners, Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza, cracked the Submission of the Year watch for 2013.
Jacare pulled off his second impressive submission of 2013, trumping his kimura of Ed Herman at Strikeforce: Marquardt vs. Saffiedine.
Here’s a look at the most enthralling submissions so far of 2013.