{"id":642088,"date":"2026-05-01T05:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T05:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/642088\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T05:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T05:52:09","slug":"mma-junkies-submission-of-the-month-for-april-rare-regional-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/642088\/","title":{"rendered":"MMA Junkie’s Submission of the Month for April: Rare regional winner"},"content":{"rendered":"

With another action-packed month of MMA in the books, MMA Junkie looks at the best submissions from April 2026: Here are the five nominees, listed in chronological order, and winner of MMA Junkie’s Submission of the Month award for April.<\/p>\n

At the bottom of the post, let us know if we got it right by voting for your choice.<\/p>\n

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Nominee: Tresean Gore def. Azamat Bekoev at UFC Fight Night 272<\/p>\n

Tresean Gore pulled off the biggest win of his career against Azamat Bekoev, and did so after overcome adversity.<\/p>\n

Gore (6-4 MMA, 3-4 UFC) was rocked and on the verge of being stopped in the second round of the middleweight bout vs. Bekoev (20-5 MMA, 2-2 UFC), but that moment only appeared to awaken the beast. The significant betting underdog Gore started hurting a tiring Bekoev with strikes on the feet in the final frame before latching onto a guillotine choke<\/a> and putting his opponent to sleep.<\/p>\n

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Nominee: Vicente Luque def. Kelvin Gastelum at UFC 327<\/p>\n

Vicente Luque has prided himself on D’Arce and anaconda chokes, and he showed off his signature move in front of his home state audience.<\/p>\n

Luque (24-12-1 MMA, 17-8 UFC) tapped fellow longtime promotional veteran Kelvin Gastelum (20-11 MMA, 14-11 UFC) with a D’Arce choke<\/a> in the opening round. Luque’s finishing sequence started on the feet and ended on the ground. He dropped Gastelum with a big punch. Gastelum weathered a sea of follow-up punches, but was unable to fend off Luque’s jiu-jitsu prowess.<\/p>\n

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Nominee: Tatiana Suarez def. Loopy Godinez at UFC 327<\/p>\n

Tatiana Suarez overcame an adversity-filled sequence early, and later became the first woman to stop Loopy Godinez inside the cage.<\/p>\n

Suarez (12-1 MMA, 9-1 UFC) vs. Godinez (14-6 MMA, 9-6 UFC) was an important fight for the promotion’s strawweight division. In Round 2, Suarez took Godinez down, got her back, and worked for the rear-naked choke<\/a>. Godinez did a decent job of hand-fighting. While she won some battles, she didn’t win the war. Eventually, Suarez got what she was looking for.<\/p>\n

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Nominee: Mateusz Gamrot def. Esteban Ribovics at UFC 327<\/p>\n

Mateusz Gamrot got back on track in a big way against Esteban Ribovics.<\/p>\n

Gamrot (26-4 MMA, 9-4 UFC) put his superior grappling skillset on display once again when he submitted Esteban Ribovics (15-2 MMA, 4-2 UFC) in the second round of their lightweight bout. It was an arm-triangle choke<\/a> that got the job done for Gamrot, who got just his second finish in nine octagon triumphs.<\/p>\n

The winner: Adriano Castro def. Felipe Molina at Inka 55<\/p>\n

Adriano Castro could be a serious prospect to watch after adding another highlight to his early career reel \u2013\u00a0just 10 days after his previous fight.<\/p>\n

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The 19-year-old from Peru got a spectacular first-round submission win on Wednesday at Inka 55 in Lima. Castro (5-0) put Felipe Molina (5-2) to sleep with a bulldog choke just over three minutes into the opening round of the bantamweight fight, marking his second victory by choke in less than two weeks.<\/p>\n

Castro defeated Kenyer Carranza on March 22 under the Perrera Fight banner in a featherweight bout, then quickly turned around down a weight class and made short work of Molina.<\/p>\n

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After making his professional debut in June, Castro has already picked up five victories, all by stoppage. He has yet to see a third round, with only one of his fights making it past the 3:01 mark of Round 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With another action-packed month of MMA in the books, MMA Junkie looks at the best submissions from April…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,310946,786,94034,32453,785,3169,85,94035,99962,787,115698],"class_list":["post-642088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-azamat-bekoev","tag-fighting","tag-kelvin-gastelum","tag-loopy-godinez","tag-mma","tag-mma-junkie","tag-sports","tag-tatiana-suarez","tag-tresean-gore","tag-ufc","tag-vicente-luque"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642088","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=642088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}