Top 5: Fastest UFC featherweight submissions
Chas Skelly’s exploits in the Ultimate Fighting Championship might have been lost to time had it not been for one particular performance.
Chas Skelly ’s exploits in the Ultimate Fighting Championship might have been lost to time had it not been for one particular performance. The Team Takedown rep put away former Pancrase champion Maximo Blanco with an anaconda choke in the first round of their UFC Fight Night 94 featherweight showcase on Sept. 17, 2016 at State Farm Arena in Hidalgo, Texas.
Blanco lost consciousness 19 seconds into Round 1. Operating in the shadows of the Dustin Poirier - Michael Johnson main event, Skelly charged at the Venezuelan at the start and put him on the mat with a flying front kick to the chest. In his haste to return to an upright position, Blanco left his neck exposed.
The opportunistic Skelly then bit down on a guillotine before he made a smooth transition to the anaconda choke. Blanco was out cold in a matter of seconds. Nearly a decade later, Skelly’s finish of the unsuspecting Blanco remains the fastest submission in the history of the UFC featherweight division.
The best of the rest: Sodiq Yusuff vs. Don Shainis UFC Fight Night 211 Oct. 1, 2022 | Las Vegas Yusuff dispatched the Glory MMA representative with a guillotine choke in the first round of their featherweight attraction at the UFC Apex.