The most aesthetically pleasing submissions are often the most difficult to pull off.
Low-percentage finishes typically only get executed by top-tier submission artists, fighters who’ve already nailed the techniques ad nauseam during training.
Submission virtuosos like Shinya Aoki, Nick Diaz and Frank Mir, just to name a few, have developed the proper muscle memory to nail some of the world’s most trying submissions.
Here are 10 submissions rarely seen in MMA.