Half-Year Awards - The Submissions

From the sublime to the spectacular, the first half of 2017 had more than its share of memorable submission finishes. Here are this scribe’s picks for the five best of the year so far.1 - Aleksei Oleinik-Viktor Pesta (Watch on UFC FIGHT PASS)How can the first and only Ezekiel choke submission in UFC history not get the top spot here? So there’s that, but even if it wasn’t the first, Aleksei Oleinik’s finish of Viktor Pesta in January was so sublime and so surprising. Moun