UFC's Bryce Mitchell scores rare 'twister' submission victory, offers Trump to beat up politicians for free
Bryce Mitchell continued his undefeated run in the UFC after picking up a submission victory over Matt Sayles in a featherweight bout on Saturday in Washington. However, she stunned audiences when he offered his services to President Trump and promised to buy him dinner.
With the victory over Sayles, Mitchell moved to a record 12-0 in his professional career. Following the exciting bout, he vowed to beat up any politician the president wanted taken care of, Fox News reports.
“Donald Trump. I’m up here in D.C.,” Mitchell shouted into the microphone after his victory. “If you need help whooping some politician, holler at me bro; I’ll do it for free!”
The martial artist from Arkansas defeated Sayles with a "twister," a move that he claimed to have learned on YouTube. “Just seen it on YouTube,” he said Monday. “Eddie Bravo gives such a detailed description of how to do it, I mean, anybody can learn [it] on YouTube... Nobody believes me — I get stuff on YouTube all the time.”
Speaking to ESPN, Mitchell said he had never tried the move in a professional bout, and that he wasn't going to use it until the right opportunity had presented itself.
“I'd never felt a twister with that much tension on it. I don't know what gives first — it f—ks your hips, your back and your neck up,” Mitchell said. “His back felt like a big rubber band — I felt resistance, but I felt myself pulling through the resistance. I felt tension, and then I felt it releasing, and I felt more tension and it just felt like I was tearing something.”
Having said that, the "twister" submission was only the second of its kind to be successfully executed in UFC history. The first one was performed by “The Korean Zombie” Chan Sung Jung at UFC Fight Night 24 in March 2011, which saw the South Korean fighter pull off a second-round twister submission in a rematch against fellow WEC great Leonard Garcia.