Susurkaev’s debut may have delivered a submission finish, but when we asked him about his submission game, he just laughed.
“I choose every time a knockout,” he said. “I have only finished one submission. I like knockouts, but I don’t know. I never did a submission in training, but in fights, I have one! My brother said, ‘How did you submit him?’ I said, ‘I don’t know!’ I like knockouts, and every time, I’m going (in there) to get a knockout.”
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For a fighter who arrived so quickly on the big stage, Susurkaev has had to deal with the immediate pressure of fighting under the bright lights of big-arena numbered events, and he’s taken to it like a duck to water. He admitted there were some nerves on his UFC debut, but by the time his sophomore showing rolled around, he felt much more at home.
