“I can show this submission for everyone”- Aleksei Oleinik opens up about how he felt teaching Jared Vanderaa the scarf hold at UFC 273 after submitting him
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Aleksei Oleinik UFC 273
UFC Heavyweight Aleksei Oleinik has to be on top of the world tonight at UFC 273. Oleinik has successfully hit a milestone of 60th professional win in his overall MMA career with his 47th win via submission as he submits his opponent Jared Vanderaa via scarf-hold choke, a move not pulled off very often inside the Octagon.
UFC 273 is taking place right now at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Florida, the USA. The main event is headlined by UFC featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski defending his title against Chan Sung Jung. The co-main event involves another title fight- a rematch between interim UFC bantamweight champion Petr Yan and undisputed UFC undisputed bantamweight champion Aljamain Sterling.
Aleksei Oleinik reveals the number of times one needs to practice his choke in order to submit him
In a post-fight media scrum, Oleinik talks about hitting the 60-win milestone, his future as a professional fighter ahead, and much more. Oleinik delightfully explains what it was like to choose to teach Vanderaa his most executed choke- the Ezekiel choke.
“I am happy with this,” says Oleinik “I can show this submission to everyone and this is no problem for me because nobody I hope to do this submission on me because if you want to submit me you must repeat the submission maybe 3,000 times, maybe 5,000 maybe 10 (thousand),“ concludes Oleinik.
What do you make of Oleinik still nailing performance at the Octagon at the age of 44? Oleinik is a true veteran of this sport that has been fighting since the mid-nineties, it’s not many years left for the Russian, we can only appreciate him more and more while he is here becoming a legend of MMA as well.
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