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The knock on Jorge Gurgel, for years now, has been an apparent insistence on showing off his standup game – preferring to trade punches and kicks and knees with his opponents rather than taking the fight to the ground.
It’s a double-edged sword. Fans sure love knockouts. Gurgel seems to know this, and wants to give the fans a show. But the buzz had grown increasingly louder the last few years that he needed to give the slugfests a break and, well, just submit someone already.
On Saturday, the Ohio resident needed just 44 seconds to finally get the submission monkey off his back when he slapped a guillotine choke on Billy Vaughan on the preliminary card of Strikeforce: Feijao vs. Henderson in Columbus. Sure, Vaughan took the fight on four days notice after Tyler Combs dropped off with an injury. But at this point, a tapout is a tapout.