The best tapouts in UFC history, Part 4: Unique submissions

#3: Peruvian Necktie – CB Dollaway vs. Jesse Taylor – UFC Fight Night 14 – 07/19/2008

The Peruvian Necktie became synonymous with CB Dollaway in the UFC

Named after its inventor, Peruvian MMA and grappling veteran Tony DeSouza, the Peruvian Necktie is a nasty-looking hold which is essentially a hybrid of a guillotine choke and a neck crank. The move begins with the attacker holding his opponent in a front facelock position; from there they snake one arm under the armpit and across the neck and clasp their hands together.

Once this grip is tightened, the attacker will stand into a crouched position before placing their leg over the head of their opponent on the side of the trapped arm and sitting back, wrenching with the arms at the same time as throwing the other leg over the opponent’s back.

At this stage, the opponent will probably tap out – or be rendered unconscious with a very sore neck in the process. It’s a rarely-seen manoeuvre in MMA simply due to the amount of skill it takes to pull it off well – more fighters have failed to do it than succeeded.

Strangely enough, DeSouza himself never pulled off the move in MMA action, and so in the UFC at least, it became synonymous with Middleweight contender CB Dollaway. ‘The Doberman’ burst onto the scene during the 7th season of The Ultimate Fighter – and it was during the filming of that series that cameras saw him use the move to submit his coach, Rampage Jackson.

That was training, though, but in his second official UFC outing, Dollaway somehow managed to pull off the move in legitimate action. Sprawling to avoid a takedown from opponent Jesse Taylor, Dollaway swiftly locked up the Peruvian Necktie before ‘JT Money’ realised what was going on. Seconds later, he was tapping out.

It was a visually fantastic submission – one of the best ever seen in the Octagon – and it guarantees Dollaway a spot on any highlight reel of tapouts forever, basically.