Oliveira taps Condit with 2nd-round guillotine choke at UFC Glendale
Alex Oliveira pulled off in the second round Saturday what Carlos Condit nearly did at his expense in the first.
Filling in for an injured Matt Brown on two weeks' notice in Glendale, Ariz., the Brazilian submitted a bloodied Condit with a guillotine choke in the second round of UFC on FOX 29's welterweight co-main event.
Amazing performance by Alex Oliveira coming in on short notice! He held that guillotine for nearly 40 seconds! Carlos Condit is a warrior. Wow. #UFCGlendale pic.twitter.com/YHpMI4V4Ta
— Alex Scaffidi (@alex_scaffidi) April 15, 2018
With the tapout, Oliveira rebounded from the instant classic he dropped to Yancy Medeiros by third-round TKO at UFC 218 in December, and has now gotten his hand raised in five of his past six.
It was the late-notice fill-in who nearly tapped in the opening frame, as Condit reversed position off an Oliveira takedown before taking the Brazilian's back in the subsequent scramble, locking on a body triangle and feverishly fishing for a rear-naked choke to close it out.
Oliveira brought the action to the mat once more in the second, only to trade dominant positions with Condit again. The 30-year-old appeared to have stunned Condit with an upkick from his back, and when his foe reacted with a takedown attempt, Oliveira put the squeeze on Condit's neck for over half a minute and had all but lopped his head off by the time Condit tapped at the 3:17 mark.
The submission extended Condit's miserable skid to four. The ex-interim champ hasn't gotten his hand raised since he scored a second-round TKO of Thiago Alves nearly three years ago.