{"id":90683,"date":"2025-08-23T07:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T07:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/90683\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T07:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T07:38:07","slug":"good-morning-ufc-shanghai-sparked-by-rare-ezekiel-choke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/90683\/","title":{"rendered":"Good morning! UFC Shanghai Sparked By Rare Ezekiel Choke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Uran Satybaldiev started UFC Shanghai off with a bang earlier this morning (Sat., Aug. 23, 2025) LIVE on <a href=\"http:\/\/go.web.plus.espn.com\/c\/482924\/566982\/9070?sharedid=MMAMania\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN+<\/a> from inside the Shanghai Indoor Stadium in Shanghai, China, sparking former Contender Series standout Diyar Nurgozhay with a beautiful first-round Ezekiel choke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For those fight fans dedicated enough to set their alarm clocks for 3 a.m. ET, they got to witness one of the best submission finishes of 2025. It\u2019s very rare that someone is able to secure a fight-ending Ezekiel choke inside the Octagon. Heavyweights like Aleksei Oleinik and Alexander Volkov have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2023\/9\/9\/23866050\/full-fight-video-highlights-ufc-293-results-espn-sydney-volkov-ezekiel-choke-submission-tuivasa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pulled it off before<\/a>, but it\u2019s not something fight fans get to see too often. That all changed Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Both light heavyweights had moments early into the first round until Satybaldiev scored a nice knockdown to gain top control. Satybaldiev eventually locked up a tight kimura that nearly forced Nurgozhay to tap. After Nurgozhay was able to wiggle free, Satybaldiev secured the Ezekiel choke and started to squeeze. Nurgozhay fought for a few moments, but there was nothing he could do.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Check out the video highlights below and let us know your thoughts on the first finish of the morning!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For more UFC Shanghai results, coverage, and highlights click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Uran Satybaldiev started UFC Shanghai off with a bang earlier this morning (Sat., Aug. 23, 2025) LIVE on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,37644,702,7788,9468],"class_list":["post-90683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-on-espn-fight-night","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-results","tag-ufc-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}