With one second left, Chris Padilla decided he didn’t need to hear what the judges had to say.
“Taco” scored an incredible submission at UFC Sacramento on Saturday, wrapping up Nasrat Haqparast in an arm-triangle choke and putting him to sleep with one second remaining in the bout.
Watch the technical submission victory below.
After two back-and-forth rounds of mostly striking, Padilla was ahead 20-18 according to the official scorecards, but in the moment the outcome was in doubt so he made sure to push the pace in the final frame. As he pressured Haqparast against the fence, he saw the opportunity for a submission and snagged it, dragging Haqparast to the mat and rendering him unconscious just before the buzzer sounded.
The official time of the stoppage was 4:59 of Round 3.
Padilla (18-6-1) remains undefeated in the UFC, with five wins and a draw against MarQuel Mederos in his previous outing that arguably should have gone his way. On the other side, Haqparast (18-7) has now lost two straight fights and again failed to see the scorecards as he was brutally knocked out by Quillan Salkilld this past October.
