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Walker submitted Kennedy Nzechukwu with an invertted heel hook in the first round of their UFC Nashville clash last weekend. That marked the third consecutive first-round heel-hook submission for “The Foot Hunter” since his lone career loss in his UFC debut last year. While Walker has submitted three UFC vets in a row using the same move, it didn’t have any effect on Sanko.
Walker was recently seen trying to heel hook Sanko, who nonchalantly shrugged at him. A confused Walker wondered aloud: “What’s going on?”
Sanko Given Mythical Brazilian Nickname
Sanko later showed that she can turn her feet completely around, essentially rendering the heel hook useless. The UFC analyst even successfully forced a tap from Walker with her heel hook. Walker and his teammates honored Sanko with the moniker of the Brazilian mythical character Curupira. In Brazilian folklore, Curupira is the guardian of the forests and has its feet turned backwards.
This article first appeared at Recent News on Sherdog.com
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