Thiago Moises submits Christos Giagos, calls for fight with Joe Solecki

The Ultimate Fighting Championship returns to us tonight, June 25, 2022, for UFC Vegas 57, going down live from the UFC Apex in Enterprise, Nevada.

The event is to be headlined by a pair of ranked lightweight killers in Arman Tsarukyan (no. 11) and Mateusz Gamrot (no. 12), and co-headlined by welterweight contenders Neil Magny (no. 10) and Shavkat Rakhmonov (no. 15).

Our first feature fight of the night came in the lightweight division between Thiago Moises and Christos Giagos.

Continue reading to see how this 155 lb clash went down:

Official Result: Thiago Moises def. Christos Giagos via submission (rear naked choke) at 3:05 of round one

Moises presses Giagos into the fence in search of a takedown, but Giagos’ defense holds up initially. After a scramble, Moises has Giagos’ back and is searching for the rear naked choke.

Giagos remains in a standing position, and initially is able to defend the choke.

However, not long after getting his back fully taken, Moises finds the early finish, snapping his two-fight losing skid.

Thiago Moises makes short work of Christos Giagos at #UFCVegas57 with a standing rear-naked choke pic.twitter.com/MZ1muTYDWw

— Shakiel Mahjouri (@Shak_Fu) June 26, 2022

In his post-fight interview with UFC Hall of Famer Michael Bisping, Moises said called out fellow submission artist Joe Solecki

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Brady Ordway

I became a fan of combat sports when I was 12 years old. I was scrolling through the channels and landed upon Versus, where WEC was televised. Urijah Faber fought Jens Pulver for the second time that night. That's the first fight I ever saw, and I was immediately hooked. So eventually, I began covering the sport in the fourth quarter of 2018, and have since started writing about animals as well. If you'd like to see those pieces, be sure to check out learnaboutnature.com!

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