{"id":174610,"date":"2025-09-28T07:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T07:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/174610\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T07:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T07:04:09","slug":"ufc-perth-star-viciously-taps-opponent-with-wwe-style-choke-in-front-of-home-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/174610\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Perth star viciously taps opponent with \u2018WWE style\u2019 choke in front of home country"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The UFC Perth co-main event ended with a nasty submission.<\/p>\n<p>The UFC\u2019s return to Western Australia might not have had too much buzz in the lead-up, <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/2025\/09\/25\/horrible-card-fans-react-as-poor-ufc-perth-ticket-sales-leads-to-half-full-venue-prediction\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">with reports of low ticket sales<\/a>, but the 12-fight card delivered for the most part.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/ufc-perth\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC Perth<\/a> main card began with back-to-back finishes, with <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/2025\/09\/27\/neil-magny-scores-controversial-comeback-after-referee-thought-hed-been-choked-unconscious-at-ufc-perth\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Neil Magny getting a submission win in a controversial comeback of the year contender against Jake Matthews<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the co-headliner, Melbourne\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/jimmy-crute\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jimmy Crute<\/a> made it two wins in a row when he took on Ivan Erslan.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2237808559-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Jimmy Crute celebrates submission win over Ivan Erslan\" \/>Photo by Ed Mulholland\/Zuffa LLCJimmy Crute violently submits Ivan Erslan in the opening round<\/p>\n<p>Crute wasted no time in getting Erslan out of the Octagon.<\/p>\n<p>Crute only needed three minutes to snatch a hold of Erslan\u2019s neck, pulling it back tightly.<\/p>\n<p>Grimacing under the pressure, Erslan was forced to tap out to the submission, which officially went down as a rear-naked choke win for Crute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was a crazy submission,\u201d UFC commentator Dominick Cruz said cageside.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust ripped his head off,\u201d Cruz added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was a wrestling, WWE style move there,\u201d UFC commentator Paul Felder said of Crute\u2019s choke.<\/p>\n<p>Ivan Erslan could be looking at a UFC release<\/p>\n<p>Erslan has lost four out of his last five fights.<\/p>\n<p>With this loss to Crute, the Croatian fighter falls to 0-3 in the UFC.<\/p>\n<p>Erslan lost his debut against perennial contender <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/ion-cutelaba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ion Cutelaba<\/a> last year before dropping his next two bouts against Navajo Stirling and Crute.<\/p>\n<p>This could very well be Erslan\u2019s final fight in the UFC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UFC Perth co-main event ended with a nasty submission. The UFC\u2019s return to Western Australia might not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,113454,13845,85,787,29450],"class_list":{"0":"post-174610","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-ivan-erslan","11":"tag-jimmy-crute","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-ufc","14":"tag-ufc-perth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}