Craig Jones recently did an interview with Derek from More Plates More Dates and he was asked about what he thought the craziest submission win of his career was. Not only is Jones one of the best leglockers in the world, but he also has dozens of submission wins to his name. Although it might be hard for most people to answer a question like that with so many different potential answers, Jones didn’t hesitate for even a minute. For anyone who has been following Jones’ career over the last few years then his answer probably wouldn’t come as much of a surprise either.
The submission that he chose actually took place all the way back in 2020 and it was during his time competing on Submission Underground:
“It would be me against Vinny Magalhaes… This guy was a guy who was notorious for not getting leglocked. He used to say ‘heel hooks don’t work’ and I had a match with him. I put him in a heel hook and he had a spiral fracture in his fibula and his ankle completely dislocated from his leg within like I think 30 seconds. He didn’t even have time to really tap, he just let his leg snap straight away. That’s the most disturbing, and he doesn’t tap and it does a full 360, and I could see his bone poking into his skin like it was about to poke out. So that’s probably the most disturbing one.”
That’s pretty much exactly how it happened as well, Magalhaes ate the full force of Jones’ heel hook and his leg was very clearly damaged almost immediately. Not only did he refuse to tap, but Magalhaes actually attempted to continue the match until the extent of the injury severely limited his mobility. He ended up tapping verbally instead and Jones was declared the winner, but it’s hard to say that taking that damage was ever going to be a good idea. Jones himself even said that tapping would have been the better option when Magalhaes found himself caught in a heel hook:
“It’s almost like… ‘What’s wrong with you? Why are you doing that? Why would you do that? Who cares bro, just tap… Why would you make me do this to you?’”
Craig Jones shared the craziest submission win of his professional grappling career in a recent interview that was uploaded to the official YouTube channel of More Plates More Dates:
