One second left in the final round. You literally can’t finish a fight any later than that – or can you? You certainly can’t come much closer to losing just before you win, which is exactly what Paul Craig did against Magomed Ankalaev at UFC Fight Night 127 in London. The situation was this: For more or less the whole fight, the previously unbeaten Ankalaev (9-1 MMA, 0-1 UFC) had mostly dominated. He was too strong, too quick, too altogether overwhelming for Craig (10-2 MMA, 2-2 UFC), who found himself late in the third round, stuck on his back against the fence in a fight he was losing on the scorecards, all while Ankalaev hit him in the face, and the cageside commentators wondered why Craig wasn’t going all out to scramble back to his feet. Then, shortly after the clapper to signal the final 10 seconds of the round, Craig threw up a triangle-choke from his back
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