Mixed Martial Arts is at its best when it is unpredictable and sometimes we see things that have never happened before.
As a fixed value of the UFC for almost 30 years, Joe Rogan has seen a lot of results playing in the Octagon.
Rogan has seen phenomena rise and fall from the commentary cabin and techniques come and go while the sport continues to evolve and changes with every passing year.
Chan Sung Jung, better known as 'The Korean Zombie', produced his honest part of historical moments during his career, but he is forever in the history books for a first of his kind of victory.
After retiring in 2023, the most iconic lasting memory of the Korean zombie comes from his UFC debut, where he completed his opponent with an incredibly rare submission technique that he learned on YouTube.
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The Korean zombie produces the first Twister submission in the UFC history in 2011
On this day in 2011, the Korean zombie debuted in the UFC after previously fought before the WEC the year before.
His first outing in the Achthoek would come across a former WEC opponent of him in Leonard Garcia, where the two men put an incredible war on WEC 48 in April 2010.
In the first fight on the Spike TV main card in the Keyarena in Seattle, Washington, Chan Sung Jung History wrote after a first of his sort of entry in the UFC.
With the second round only a few moments of an end, the zombie rubbed his earlier loss of Garcia by catching him in a Twister submission.
The technology consists of both a neck crank and the manipulation of the spine, so that the body of the opponent is turned in two different directions, with an incredibly complex setup, making it difficult to pull out.
It became popular by the good friend of Joe Rogan, Eddie Bravo, the founder of the 10th planet Jiu-Jitsu and the Eddie Bravo Invitational (EBI).
Zombie then won entry of the year during the World MMA Awards for his historical victory he learned through watching videos from Bravo on YouTube.
Rogan's response to the entry says that it is not possible to believe what he saw with the experienced commentator.
“He sets up a Twister, it looks like … He is! He has a Twister! Oh! Oh, he has! It is Eddie Bravo very happy somewhere.”
Since then, two other hunters have replicated the performance of the Korean zombie
Since the Korean zombie wrote history in 2011, two other hunters have joined him in the exclusive Twister Submission Win Club.
Eight years later in 2019, Bryce Mitchell would produce the second Twister input, where he finished Matt Sayles before Da'mon Blackshear was in August 2023 against Jose Johnson.
The three men recently posed together for a photo while they were present in the Apex in Las Vegas.
While Mitchell and Blackshear earn huge amounts of credit for removing this technique, despite the fact that everyone knows about it, no one will ever recapture the surprise of the Korean zombie who submits an opponent with a previously seen method.
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