Ian Heinisch added a big win to his resume last Saturday at UFC on ESPN+ 10, but it took weathering quite a storm from Antonio Carlos Junior early in the middleweight encounter to get the job done. Heinisch, who was in the unfortunate position of having to fight a rear-naked choke specialist off his back, credits a few things for managing to turn things around. In wrestling, he says, he’s always good at getting people off his back. In camp, he had a slew of “long, lanky black belts” and people with strong back control helping make sure he was comfortable in the position if it came down to it. Perhaps most importantly, though, Heinisch has been through enough challenges in his life to know how to overcome them
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