Pat Sabatini is making a behavior of taking out his fellow UFC fighters on the grappling mat.
Whereas his most up-to-date octagon outing might have led to defeat, Sabatini can confidently say he’s coming into 2024 on a excessive notice after scoring an amazingly brutal submission at Cage Fury FC’s Fury Professional Grappling 8 occasion Saturday in Philadelphia.
Slightly over three minutes into his match with UFC welterweight Niko Value, Sabatini took Value’s again after which took his leg earlier than falling to the mat to finish a Suloev stretch.
Watch the submission end under.
Sabatini had the maintain cinched in completely, to the purpose that the within of Sabatini’s proper knee was nearly touching his shoulder. In different phrases: OUCH.
Fury FC’s year-end grappling occasion has confirmed to be a fortuitous event for Sabatini, who submitted one other UFC fighter, Alex Caceres, on this similar date final yr at Fury Grappling Professional 6.
In MMA, Sabatini went 1-1 in 2023, scoring a submission win over Lucas Almeida this previous June earlier than shedding through knockout to Diego Lopes at UFC 295.